The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has launched the 2023 edition of the Ghana Week DC Capital City Africa Cup in Accra to foster Ghana’s partnerships and to promote investment opportunities and culture.
Known as “Ghana Week in DC”, it is scheduled to take place from October 9-14, 2023, in Washington DC in the United States.
The week’s programme is intended to display Ghana as a top destination for tourism, business, trade, sports, and culture while uniting Ghanaians and Africans in the diaspora.
Activities to mark the event include an art exhibition, a Ghana Village setting, a business forum, and a return conversation, and will be crowned with a Capital City Africa Cup match between one of Ghana’s Premier League teams and DC United.
The Chief Executive Officer of the GTA, Akwesi Agyeman, who launched the event in Accra yesterday, indicated that the initiative was a new tourism product expected to drive the social and economic development of the country.
He added that the project would provide access to Ghana’s tourism market and act as a key market for the country’s music, arts, sports, fashion, comedy, and film industries.
The Chief Executive Officer of PKB Enterprises, Paxton Baker, whose company is partnering with the GTA for the event, said the event would expose Ghana as the gateway to Africa and provide an opportunity to own their narrative in America in the different things that they had to offer.
“The exposure of Ghanaian culture in Washington DC in the US, one of the leading countries in the world, is a significant and unique move created by the ministry and other partners,” he added.