News: Stakeholders validate Tourism Crisis Recovery planning

The Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the World Bank yesterday held a one day validation workshop on Tourism Crisis Recovery planning at the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown.
The validation exercise attracted several stakeholders from the tourism industry and Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies with a view to validating a document done by a UK based consultancy Dunira Strategy, a sustainable business solutions in Tourism.

Addressing stakeholders at the workshop, the Deputy Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Dixon Bella Fofanah said the tourism industry was hard hit by the Ebola Virus Disease causing a drop in hotel occupancy, job cuts and loss of government revenue.
He said the objective of the validation was to critically look at ways and means to create a medium and long term transformation of the tourism industry for socio economic growth.

publish - By Saidu BahFriday May 20, 2016

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