The National Service Secretariat (NSS) in collaboration with the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), has launched a support programme to enhance Ghana's tourism sector.
The NSS is deploying about 700 people to various tourism and hospitality facilities in the country for their mandatory national service.
Executive Director of the NSS, Mr Osei Assibey Antwi, said “we have done thorough preparatory works and are sending qualified professionals in areas such as catering, hospitality and ICT to hotels and other tourist sites to boost the industry".
Mr Antwi noted the GTA will take the national service persons through capacity-building programmes in customer service and communication.
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He also indicated that the secretariat was also collaborating with Agri-Impact Consult, a firm that produces vegetables for export.
"About 500 service persons had been assigned to understudy the firm for the duration of the service year, after which they would be given greenhouses to manage and plant vegetables for export.
"Another batch of 720 service persons have been assigned to Techlab, an IT institution, to be trained in website building and application creation and management under the government’s digitalisation agenda", Mr Antwi added.
Furthermore, Mr Antwi said, an agreement had been reached with the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) for the training of 100 service persons in entrepreneurial skills.