By Nana Asare Mireku & Michaeal Teye Amartey
This year’s Kwahu Easter paragliding festival has been launched at Odweanoma paragliding field with 12 Pilots including a Ghanaian, Jonathan Quaye. The pilots are from the USA, Germany, Peru and Switzerland.
The Odweanoma paragliding festival, one of the major highlights of the Kwahu Easter activities has returned after two years due to COVID-19, which ravaged the world and imposed restrictions on events including the Kwahu Easter.
This year’s paragliding is expected to last four days.
The event launched Thursday, at the Odweanoma Paragliding centre located in the Kwahu South Municipality of the Eastern Region, saw the arrival of 13 paragliding pilots from four countries including France, Germany, Peru, Switzerland, the United States of America and two Ghanaians.
The Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mark Okraku Mantey urged Ghanaians to support tourism by patronising various tourist centres across the country.
He called for public-private partnership to help develop the tourism sector. He said the ministry is working to develop all tourist sites in the country.
The Kwahu South Municipal Chief Executive, Emmanuel Atta Senior spoke on the importance of tourism in nation building and appealed to the government to pay much attention to it.
