It could be recalled that the Bonthe episode successfully took place from the 21st through 24th this year. Being the maiden edition and pilot phase, the said festival, according to the two Ministries mentioned above, primarily aims at actualizing President Bio’s New Direction Policy of promoting Tourism via agro-cultural activities. The National Agro-Cultural and Tourism (NACT) Festival […]
On Monday 24 December 2018 His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has closed the 2018 Agro-Tourism Festival organized by the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security at the Bonthe Municipal Island. The event provided the platform for tourism and agricultural groups from within the district to showcase their various[…]
The Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Madam Memunatu B. Pratt joined Ministers’ of Tourism, representatives and tourism experts from the 15 member states of ECOWAS to validate the Draft ECOWAS Regional Tourism Policy and Ecotour Action Plan on Friday 30th November 2018 in Bamako, Mali. As international tourism continues to gain high significance as one of[…]
This year’s trade fair in France at Port de Versaile stand out to be a one of its kind, as the event gathered thousands of tourism liked minded audience which covers tour operators, airlines, hotels chains, and estate engineers, investors for tourism destinations, cultural exchange consultants, tourism organizations, and new destinations where strongly visible, which the Sierra[…]
I have read, I have seen, and I have explored touristic sites far away from home; and I have come to realize the significance of tourism in a nation’s economy. The tourism sector of my beloved Sierra Leone seems to be taken a remarkable dimension, as I witnessed on a firsthand account of the Minister of Tourism[…]
The Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Madam Memunatu B. Pratt has disclosed that Tourism is an environmentally dependent sector and also one of the world’s fastest-growing industries for rapid economic transformation if properly utilized. She made the disclosure during a one-day national conference on the environment which is convened by the Ministry of Lands, Country Planning[…]
China Nicky: Disappointed but unruffled “I am very much disappointed by the manner and method through which some individuals in society are interpreting the refusal of the UK government to grant Haja Mariama Kamara aka China Nicky visa for the global tourism event.” These were the words of the Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Madam Memunatu[…]
The Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs on the 27th November this year held a press conference at its conference hall to officially recognize the current Mr. Salone who is to travel this week to represent the country at the Mr. Africa International in Lagos Nigeria. In her opening statement, the Hon. Minister of the said Ministry,[…]
In the Government’s drive to rebrand the tourism sector, Vice President Hon. Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh on Thursday September 13th 2018 launched a Ministry of Tourism initiative. The ‘Adopt-A-Booth event took place at the Family Kingdom resort at Aberdeen. Among the initiatives introduced by the new Minister of Tourism and Culture, Madam Pratt, to beauty the country’s[…]
A cross section of the National Steering Committee of the Agro-Cultural Tourism Festival (ACTF), together with the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs (MTCA) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), on Saturday 25th August, 2018 engaged stakeholders in Koinadugu/Falaba to update them on the proposed maiden festival as it was done in Bonthe last[…]