Most of the famous hotels in Accra are ideally located in the center of the town so that they are easily accessible from all parts of the city. The best thing about the hotels in Accra is that you will definitely find a hotel of your choice from the long list which suites your budget. From luxury hotels to budget accommodation there will never be any deficiency of accommodation options in Accra. Experience the Ghanaian hospitality in all the hotels in Accra which will definitely exceed your expectations.
Among the luxury hotels in Accra the Golden Tulip Accra, Labadi Beach Hotel and La Palm Royal Beach Hotel are famous names. As for the Golden Tulip Accra the hotel is known for its fine accommodation and a number of luxury amenities which ensure the most comfortable stay. As for the in-room amenities in hotels in Golden Tulip Accra, La Palm Royal Beach and the Labadi Beach Hotel the tourists have the provisions of individually-controlled air-conditioning machines, TV with satellite connection, well stocked mini-bars, and multiline direct dial telephones along with tea and coffee makers for the advantage of the tourists. So make your holiday trip more memorable to accra by booking flights to Accra Ghana and take advantage the deals and offes of Accra’s famous hotels and accommodation
Most of these Accra hotels have a number of recreational provisions along with business and conferencing facilities. You will have uninterrupted internet connection, computers-on-rent, fax machines and photocopy services. As for the budget accommodations you will find the Grisham Hotel, New Coco Beach Resort, Korkdam Hotel and Kingsby Hotel to your taste. Most of the 3-star hotels are located in the downtown area and are surrounded by a number of important shops and restaurants. You will find the rooms in most of these hotels extremely clean and the daily housekeeping services are so efficient that they ensure that you have the most comfortable stay.
As for the general amenities in the cheap hotels the holidayers have the provisions of a fully functional reception desk, round-the-clock room services, and complimentary laundry services along with dry cleaning provisions along with parking provisions. Most of these hotels have an internet café where you can have access to emails.
Getting to Accra
Kotoka International Airport is the main entry point to Accra in Ghana. Accra being a major air transportation hub in Ghana has several direct flights to many international destinations from its international airport. From Kotoka International Airport you can fly to neighboring countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Lagos as well as various other cities in Middle East. Direct flights to New York and Washington in USA and European cities of Frankfurt and Amsterdam are available from Accra.
Accra Kotoka international Airport is served by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic direct from London Heathrow. Round the year Turkish and Brussels Airlines offers cheap airfares to Ghana from Heathrow, Gatwick, and Manchester.
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Accra-Ghana: Ms Akua Sena Dansua, Minister of Tourism, on Friday said Government would continue to use PANAFEST and Emancipation Day to promote Ghana as the gateway to Africa because of her strong attachment to brothers and sisters in the Diaspora.
She said the collection of more than 60 forts and castles and other relics of the slave trade along the country’s coast, and now a silent memorial of the over 500 years turbulent era in Africa’s history could attest to this assertion.
Ms Dansua said: “We will continue to project PANAFEST and Emancipation Day as part of the healing process and to celebrate the strengths, achievements and resilience of Africans over the years.”.
She was launching the 2012 PANAFEST and Emancipation Day celebration in Accra.
This year’s celebration on the theme; “Development of the Motherland: the Role of the People of African Descent” is unique because it’s the 10th Biennial celebration or 20th commemoration since it was initiated in 1992.
Since 1998, Emancipation Day has been an annual event for recollecting the horrors of the slave trade, and honouring those who worked hard to overcome the challenges of that trade.
The events over the years has served as powerful tools to get Africans in the Diaspora to retrace their steps to Africa, either to visit, settle or invest.
Ms Dansua announced that, the highlights of this year’s event would be wreath laying ceremonies at Du Bois Centre, George Padmore Library and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park; pilgrimage to slave sites in the Northern Region, a regatta of fishermen from Cape Coast to Elmina, and grand durbar of chiefs and people.
The rest are; a five-day cultural exhibition and expo, musical concert and cultural performance, a Pan African Colloquium including special women and youth day activities, reverential night, Emancipation Day at Assin Manso and a carnival at Cape Coast.
Ms Dansua expressed disappointment at the lack of support by corporate Ghana to activities of the Ministry and Ghana Tourist Authority in spite of repeated requests to support the tourism sector.
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Ghana Airports Company sign MoU with foreign Investor for the expansion of the Accra Airport
Accra-Ghana: Foreign Investors continue to express interest in Ghana’s aviation sector. One of such foreign institutions is the Canadian Commercial Corporation.
A delegation from the group led by the Director for Business Development and Sales, Donald Olsen on Thursday paid a courtesy call on the Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited, George Kuntu Blankson at Parliament House in Accra.
Mr Olsen told Radio Ghana that his visit is to follow-up on a Memorandum of Understanding which was signed with the Ghana Airports Company for the expansion of the Accra Airport.
The project aims at increasing the capacity of the Airport from three to five million passengers.
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Airport Company Limited, George Kuntu Blankson said the proposed project will help strengthen the relations between Ghana-Canada in advancing the development of the country.
The Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited, John Amedior hoped the Canadian Commercial Corporation which is an agency of the Canadian government will come up with a good financial proposal for the Airport expansion project.
Accra-Ghana: Madrid-based Airline, Iberia, is set to begin scheduled flights to Accra from Madrid from July this year.
The airline will however start its operations in partnership with British Airways which merged with Iberia in 2010.
Ghana’s commercial manager for British Airways James Wooldridge told Joy Business they will offer seamless travelling experience to their passengers.
He added that Iberia hopes to capitalize on the structures of British Airways to reduce their cost of operations
About 40 airlines could be operating from the Kotoka International Airport by the close of this year as four international airlines are due to start operations. They include: China Eastern Airlines, Qatar Airways, Air Canada and Royal Jordanian Airlines
United is moving international capacity around its largest hubs in what appears to be an effort to maximize its network now that a crucial passenger service system cutover is complete. The IT system cutover allows United and Continental, whose merger is now complete, to fully utilize the combined networks and properly cross-fleet to operate optimal-sized aircraft in United’s markets. One of the more prominent changes is the elimination of flights to Accra from United’s Washington Dulles hub, which was the carrier’s first point in Africa when the route was launched in 2010. Other changes include the seasonal elimination of flights from Washington to Moscow and from Newark to Rome.
The changes will support an overall revised capacity forecast for United this year. The carrier has refined its 2012 capacity guidance from an overall decrease of 0.5% to 1.5%, compared with a previous estimate of between growth of 0.5% and a drop of 0.5%. United’s international capacity is now projected to grow this year by 0.3% to 1.3%, but some of that will be driven by new long-haul flights from Washington Dulles to Doha beginning in May, followed by Dulles to Manchester and Dublin.
United has just introduced flights from its Newark hub, which was a legacy Continental stronghold, to Buenos Aires. The new service is in essence a route transfer from United’s Washington Dulles hub. Flights to Buenos Aires from Continental’s legacy Houston hub, which is the carrier’s gateway from Latin America, are remaining intact.
US DoT data show for 2011 United’s load factor on the Washington-Buenos Aires pairing was roughly 70.5%, while the Houston flights recorded loads of 79%. The New York market is much larger than the Washington, DC metro market, so United saw an opportunity to increase passenger flows by moving the flights to Newark. It has a broader international footprint from Newark, which allows a wider breadth of passengers from Europe to connect to the Buenos Aires flights.
Feed to and from Latin America is becoming increasingly important to United and all US carriers operating to and from the region, since its performance has remained consistent while traffic to other regions has suffered due to economic uncertainty. IATA’s figures show traffic growth to Latin America of 7.6% in January and 13.3% in February, though the association did warn February traffic levels where somewhat inflated due to the Brazilian carnival holiday occurring a month earlier in 2012.
United has said that Latin America was its best performing entity during the fourth quarter and full year 2011. United earlier reported that passenger unit revenue grew in Latin America by 11.7% year-over-year for 4Q2011 and 17.6% for the full year.
Accra-Ghana: Ms Akua Sena Dansua, Minister of Tourism on Monday launched the celebration of a carnival saying, “We in the tourism sector in Ghana are excited that Ghana is also going to be counted among countries that exhibit their history and culture through carnivals”.
A carnival typically involves a public celebration or a parade combining some elements of a circus, masks and public street party.
It is to be held in September this year in collaboration with Ghana Tourism Authority and UK Centre for Carnival Arts in Luton as well as Ghana Society in the UK.
The Sector Minister said the September Carnival being organised on the theme: “Carnival Comes Home” was designed primarily to encourage home-coming among the Diaspora especially people of African descent while it gives Ghanaians the opportunity to experience at first hand the benefits of carnivals.
She said the carnival, was expected to bring together 1,000 school children, young adults and aspiring performers from different communities to make carnival costumes and construct floats in addition to the usual music and dance that were characteristic of carnivals.
Ms Dansua said international artists recruited by the UK Centre for Carnival Arts would provide expert guidance and support to Ghanaian artists to participate in the carnival parade which would be designed and performed by local people.
“Carnivals are popular international tourism events in the Caribbean, Latin America and some parts of Africa such as the Seychelles. carnivals stimulate economic growth, create employment opportunities and transform lives especially in host countries. Carnivals unite communities not only through participation within a country but also strengthen existing relations among peoples and countries,” Ms Dansua said.
The Sector Minister stressed the important economic benefit that carnivals could bring to the country citing examples of the Luton International Carnival which generated 93 million pounds sterling and attracted up to 150,000 spectators annually.
She advised the organisers to take steps to protect the cultural sensibilities of Ghanaians and help prevent the youth from engaging in immorality, drugs and other vices during the period.
Mr Paul Anderson, Organiser of the Carnival who is also associated with the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, explained that the carnival was being organised in September to coincide with activities of the London Olympic Carnival to seek sponsorship for the Ghana project.
He urged corporate organizations and individuals to come on board to help in the project saying “We are open to ideas and criticism from the public.”
Mr. Anderson noted that, the carnival being organized in September was expected to bring people from all walks of life together including the political divide and bring some dampener to the political heat.
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A two-week flight training programme code-named “The African Partnership Flight (APF) 2012″, on Friday ended in Accra.
The military to military multilateral and regional event, was sponsored and coordinated by the US Air Force and hosted by Ghana.
Airmen from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Senegal, Togo and Benin participated in the event.
Lieutenant General Peter Augustine Blay, Chief of Defence Staff, in a speech read on his behalf by Rear Admiral Mathew Quarshie, Chief of Naval Staff, said the importance of training to the military profession could not be over emphasised.
“The need to be educated and have a good knowledge of best practices is very crucial to the success of any modern Air Force,” he said.
Lt-Gen. Blay said the purpose of the APF training programme was to teach skills and exchange ideas that were universal to all aircraft and all Air Forces.
“It would help develop regional cooperation between partner nations,” he said.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Michel Samson-Oje, said the training programme offered a rare opportunity for the Ghana Air Force to train and interact with Air Forces of other African countries.
“We have been introduced to different and more modern ways of doing things and generally, our efficiency has been immensely improved upon,” he said.
Air-Vice Marshall Samson-Oje said the training programme encouraged a collaborative approach towards ensuring security, adding that, where a situation required the cooperation of two or more countries, such training programmes made it a lot easier.
Major General Margaret Woodward, Commander of the 17th Air Force and US Air Forces in Africa said, it had become clear over the course of the training that “When we promote the unique capabilities of air-power and cooperate regionally, we will be stronger, more inter-operable and more capable of meeting the operational challenges we all face”.
She expressed the hope that the training programme would lead to even stronger regional partnerships in future.
The training programme was designed to enhance the Air Force capacity of African Partner Nations and foster greater regional cooperation, to enable increased air security.
Participating airmen were taken through drills in search and rescue, air-field security and loading of aircraft.
The flight training programme was attended by 140 airmen from the six participating African countries, and 60 airmen from the US.
Saudi Airlines Cargo will launch a weekly freighter flights to Accra the Ghana capital March 25, 2012, a company statement has said.
According to the cargo airline, the new service, which will operate once a week using the airline’s B747 freighters, heralds the company’s further expansion into Africa.
“Ghana is an emerging market with enormous business potential for air cargo. The addition of this new destination will help us to increase our activities in Africa, where we already operate scheduled B747 freighters from Saudi Arabia to Nairobi, Lagos, Addis Ababa, N’djamena, Khartoum and Johannesburg,” said Mr Peter Scholten, VP Commercial at Saudi Airlines Cargo.
Ghana’s principal airport serves as the aviation hub of the West African sub-region, the company noted. The country’s export traffic consists mainly of perishables (fruit/vegetables), with bulk of over 2,000 tonnes per month destined for the European market, followed by the Middle Eastern market, it added.
Saudi Airlines Cargo operates scheduled freighter services with 12 freighters and sells the belly-capacity on 140 passenger aircraft for Saudi Arabian Airlines spanning a rapidly expanding global network of 225 destinations.
The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has held its maiden Annual General Meeting (AGM) since its inception five years ago and declared a net profit of GH¢15,296,888 at the end of 2010, its third year of operation.
The amount contained in an independently audited financial statement presented to the Government, sole shareholder of GACL, is a 156 per cent increase over 2009 levels, which stood at GH¢5,967,384.
Mrs Doreen Owusu-Fianko, Managing Director of GACL, said the increase in profits for the period was a result of improved revenue and effective cost management practices.
She said the company’s operating income grew by 30 per cent from GH¢40 million in 2009 to GH¢52 million in 2010, while airside revenue grew by 23 per cent from GH¢7.7 million in 2009 to GH¢9.5 million in 2010.
This was driven by the growth in frequency of airlines that flights to Ghana and new ones such as Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines and Brussels Airlines.
Revenue from airport passenger service charge (APSC) increased from GH¢19 million in 2009 to GH¢27 million in the year under review, a 38 per cent increase, due to growth in passenger numbers and non-aeronautical revenue, including rental income, car park revenue, royalties and other revenue also grew 20 per cent from GH¢13.2 million in 2009 to GH¢15.9 million in 2010.
Mrs Owusu-Fianko said GACL would continue to focus on non-aeronautical revenue since it had been noted that its growth was key for a sustained development in airport management and asset utilization.
There was an improvement in its current assets position vis-à-vis current liabilities to GH¢2.9 million from GH¢10.2 million in 2009.
She said although there had been significant increases in aircraft and passenger movements in the year under review with international flights growing from 17,301 in 2009 to 21,072 in 2010, domestic flight: 6,742 to 9,036, international passengers: 1.2 million to 1.38 million and domestic passengers: 122,059 to 132,480 in 2010, movement of freight recorded only a marginal increase of 0.6 per cent from 45,693 to 45,960 in 2010.
Mrs Owusu-Fianko explained that freight volumes had been declining since 2007 due to competition from sea freight adding that the trend seemed to be reversing given the growth in economy and increase in trade in the West African sub-region.
She outlined projects that had been undertaken at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) including the SITA project, water development and storage system at the landside, re-roofing of terminal building, which was yet to be completed, construction of additional boarding gates and acquisition of 2300 trolleys and 10 potter trolleys.
Mrs Owusu-Fianko said GACL faced some challenges from unresolved post decoupling issues relating to assets sharing and title transfers, a major one being the acquisition of titles to airport lands which the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) did not have.
This, she said, was “fueling uncontrolled encroachment on airport lands, thus affecting safety of operations and potential for future expansion”.
In an interview with the GNA, Mrs Owusu-Fianko said the Lands Commission had written to the management to confirm that it had the title for the lands and was working on the title document, adding GACL expected to receive the document in due course.
Another challenge, she said, was low capitalisation as the stated capital of GH¢1.0 million, when the company was established was yet to be paid to them by the shareholder and that this had impacted the company’s ability to raise financing and renew its ageing infrastructure.
She called on government through the Ministry Of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) to pay the money to the company.
Mrs Owusu-Fianko appealed to MoFEP to give the GACL exemption them from paying tax on aeronautical revenue and equipment which it currently paid unlike the GCAA and provided a legal backing to execute its mandate.
This, she said, was necessary as the company had strategic role to play in ensuring safety and security at all airports and airstrips in Ghana.
Madam Dzifa Attivor, Deputy Minister of Transport, said the Ministry would expedite action on the bill to give the GACL the legal backing it required to fully execute its mandate.
She assured management of the company that the Ministry would prevail on MoFEP to pay the GH¢1 million and increase the percentage of APSC that went to the company for development.
Mrs Magdalene Apenteng, Director of Public Investment, MoFEP, said the Ministry was working to acquire funding of about $500 million for GACL to develop the KIA as well as the regional airports.
The meeting moved and adopted motions to re-appoint the auditors; Baah and Associates Chartered Accountants, for the ensuing year and authorised the Directors to fix their remuneration.
Mrs Apenteng who seconded the motions, advised them to ensure that the increase in the remuneration was not as much as the increase in 2010 from 2009, which went up from GH¢41,400 in 2009 to GH¢51,750 in 2010.
Mr George Kuntu Blankson, Chairman of Board of Directors of GACL, said the commencement of crude oil production in Ghana in commercial quantities was expected to change the economic environment as well as air travel, adding that GACL needed to position itself to ensure that airport infrastructure was adequate to facilitate air transport movements.
He expressed confidence that commitment from government, directors, management and staff of the company would help them realise their vision and build a successful business that would reward all its stakeholders.
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Accra: Air Commodore Kwame Mamphey, Director-General of Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), has said the authority would take tough measures against international airlines that failed to heed calls to charge moderate fares and provide quality services to passengers.
He said although it was not government’s policy to determine airfares, it was of the position that the development and provision of a safe and conducive aviation environment coupled with market forces would ultimately have an impact on airfares.
Air Commodore Mamphey said these in a release issued in Accra on Monday, after a meeting with Ghana Airports Company Limited and foreign airline operators on their challenges in providing passengers with the best of services.
“Airlines that ply the Ghana route enjoy similar or in some cases even better air navigation and regulatory services as in Europe and the Americas but pay relatively very little for such services. It is however ironic that even with the low charges, Ghanaian passengers still pay comparatively high fares,” he added.
Air Commodore Mamphey said for the sake of providing quality service for passengers, such meetings would be held quarterly to address issues affecting operators, airlines and management of GACL and make operators part of the decision making process towards the industry’s development.
He said the GCAA was making efforts to make Ghana’s airspace even safer than it already been and the interventions include installation of several state-of-the-art air navigation and weather monitoring technology adding that the Authority would soon introduce a new flight plan format by the end of 2012.
Mrs Catherine Hoffman, Acting Director for Economic Regulation, GCAA, said airline passengers often complained about ill treatment received from flight attendants, older aircraft plying African routes and High Air Fares for routes in these parts of the world compared to similar distances elsewhere.
She reiterated the need for passengers on African routes, especially on the Ghana route, to be treated with dignity since they were paying hugely for such services.
Mrs Hoffman said GCAA intended to adopt the Eurocontrol model for en-route charging in order to help it recover at least the cost of providing the en-route services since it was currently under-recovering revenue for the services provided for airlines.
“This system of charging is not new to the foreign airlines as they are already paying for En-route services in Europe using the same formula,” she added.
Mrs Hoffman said that domestic airlines would continue to enjoy subsidised services from GCAA, as it was anticipated that if the international flights paid appropriate charges then it would cover up for the growing domestic industry.
Mrs Doreen Owusu-Fianko, Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), appealed to the airlines and passengers to bear with them, as works were on going to expand facilities at the Kotoka International Airport to meet the growing demand.
While acknowledging the rapid growth in the industry, she said that construction works could not be completed overnight and urged for consideration and cooperation to ensure that current works were not done haphazardly.