{"id":5950,"date":"2019-08-22T18:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T18:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2019-08-22T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T18:44:30","slug":"year-of-return-perfect-foundation-for-future-investments-tourism-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/22\/year-of-return-perfect-foundation-for-future-investments-tourism-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Year Of Return Perfect Foundation For Future Investments \u2013 Tourism Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Babara Oteng Gyasi has expressed optimism that the interests and investment \u201cThe Year of Return\u201d has generated will spill over into the year 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe year of return is just the foundation and we are leveraging and building on it going forward and we are going to derive immense benefit from it,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>At a durbar held on Tuesday, August 20 to welcome a number of Diasporans who had come to Ghana for the event, the minister reiterated that the commemoration is a year\u2019s program because 2019 marks the 400th year of the beginning of the slave trade so we set out a yearlong program of activities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-544155 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jamestown1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"472\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we are leveraging it as a foundation going forward for the years to come.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>So you might notice that there are people who may have heard what is going on in Ghana and were not able to visit this year and thus will come next year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that there are people who want to have activities but they couldn\u2019t fit it in this year so we are looking at programming them for next year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_3_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"g g-5\">\n<div class=\"g-single a-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-544156 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jamestown3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"453\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Activities like the Ghana carnival in November and the Sankofa music festival are expected to be part of the major events that climax the program.<\/p>\n<p>The Year of Return Ghana 2019 is a marketing campaign targeting Africans in the diaspora to mark 400 years since the first slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>source:\u00a0 citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Babara Oteng Gyasi has expressed optimism that the interests and investment \u201cThe Year of Return\u201d has generated will spill over into the year 2020. \u201cThe year of return is just the foundation and we are leveraging and building on it going forward and we are going to derive 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