GTDC unveils Fleet Pool Management Services to streamline tourism transport in Ghana

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play videoCEO of Ghana Tourism Development Company, Professor Kobby Mensah

The Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC) has launched its Fleet Pool Management Services (FPMS), an inaugural aimed astatine transforming the tourism proscription assemblage done strategical public-private partnerships.

The FPMS seeks to found a robust operator database, connection refresher and capacity-building training, and way cardinal proscription information specified arsenic question times and work quality.

Speaking astatine the launch, the CEO of GTDC, Professor Kobby Mensah, explained that the FPMS is designed to consolidate privately owned vehicles into a unified fleet excavation system, backed by authorities credibility, to supply prime services to tourists crossed the country.

“We are moving with the backstage sector, we don’t person our ain pool. We are collaborating with individuals who ain vehicles, including those operating by the roadside oregon selling vehicles. Through a public-private concern model, we judge each of america tin run sustainably,” helium said.

Professor Mensah emphasised that the Fleet Pool inaugural is not intended to regenerate backstage businesses, but alternatively to connection a structured level wherever services tin beryllium amended utilised to heighten the tourism sector.

“This is not a work wherever GTDC takes implicit jobs from the backstage assemblage to tally tours. No. Everyone registered successful the excavation is simply a backstage idiosyncratic who has agreed to lend their vehicles. We usage our organisation limb to negociate the services, and we instrumentality a revenue-sharing model,” helium added.

For her part, the Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Creative Arts, Abla Dzifa Gomashie, called connected backstage stakeholders and planetary partners to enactment the rollout of FPMS successful bid to assistance realise Ghana’s imaginativeness of becoming a starring tourism hub connected the continent.

“We admit that we can’t bash it alone. That’s wherefore we’re opening our doors. We invitation you to locomotion successful and assistance america successful making the quality we cognize you tin make, for america and for our motherland, Ghana. This is wherefore FPMS matters. It’s not conscionable astir vehicles,” she stated.