As part of its medium term evolution plan, the Ellembelle District Assembly assured to tackle the vast tourism potential which proliferate in the area to quicken development of the district.
The progress is intent at making Ellembelle District, a tender international tourist destination in Ghana.
Mr Kwasi Bonzoh, The District Chief Executive (DCE), for Ellembelle said this when the Legon Center for international Affairs ( LECIA) visited the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and Museum at his birth and Original burial place at Nkorful, in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region.
The DCE extolled LECIA for making Kwame the Osagyefo Nkrumah Mausoleum and Museum high on the slate annual tour in the country.
He observed that, tourism was a remunerative income-generating venture and “we need to be serious with tourism as a product”.
He revealed that, the Assembly would develop the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum to meet international standards.
Mr Bonzoh said the government was putting the road network in the District in order to make tourism alluring and give the industry a major boost in the area.
A lecturer at LECIA, Julian Appiah, who led a group of students to the Museum and Mausoleum called on the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts to handle the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum superior than its current manner to purse tourists in the area.
She confessed that, the Nzema area was copious in tourists budding but needed to be evolved to attract more tourists in the area.
Dr Appiah said, as a student of tourism, it is befitting to visit various tourist sites of interest in the country.
She further added that, “It will give student the sense of judgement of how the serious the country is with tourism.”
As part of the tour, the group is awaiting to visit the Ankasa Rain Forest near Elubo in the Jumoro District and distribute bags of uncooked rice to the refugees at Ambainu in the Ellembelle District.