By Quansah Mavis
Tema, Nov. 28, GNA – Miss Centre of the World, in collaboration with Miss Tourism Ghana, 2024, has organised a domestic tourism tour for some selected basic schools in Tema.
The Meridian City Tour is a domestic tourism initiative aimed at advancing tourism potential in Tema, the centre of the world.
A total of 80 pupils from four selected basic schools, the Community 8 Number Two Basic School, the Community 7 Number Two Basic School, Saint Paul Roman Catholic School, and New Christian Divine School, embarked on the domestic tour.
Mr Robert Tettey Kwame Amiteye, the coordinator for the Abibinsroma Foundation and the Miss Centre of the World initiative, told the Ghana News Agency that the tour would help the pupils to learn, brainstorm, and identify tourism potentials in Tema.
He said the tour would also help them to practically understand the subject of history being taught to them in school.
He said tourism tours are very important when it comes to the study of history, as they help students picture tourist sites while learning, which gives them a better understanding.
He therefore advised schools to take advantage of such initiatives to visit tourist sites.
Miss Lawrencia Ama Yeboah, the first princess of Miss Tourism Ghana 2024, said as part of their project ‘Shape Ghana,’ which promotes tourism sites, heritage, and others, they decided to embark on the Tema Meridian Tour to visit some tourist sites in the Tema Metropolis and also identify some challenges with these tourist sites to help pitch ideas and plans to curb the problem.
She said they embarked on the educational tour with the pupils to encourage them to love and appreciate sites in the metropolis.
Miss Yeboah said one of the main challenges of the tourism site was sanitation, especially at the Port commercial market and canoe basin, where market women and fishmongers’ trade.
She pledged to work with other Miss Tourism Queens and heads of the organisation to ensure proper sanitation practices in the community.
The tourists visited places such as the Tema Port, the defunct Meridian Hotel, the Tema Regional Police Headquarters, the canoe basin, and the Greenwich Meridian line located on the premises of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) on the Greenwich Meridian at Tema Community One.
The schoolchildren through the tour learnt that the Tema Port was built in 1962 by the first president of the Republic of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and is known as the port in the centre of the world.
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