The Ho Municipal Assembly will be holding a fair in the Municipality dubbed ‘’Ho EXPO 2022’’ with the aim of marketing the economic and tourism potentials in the area to help attract both local and international investors.
The expo, which was launched in Ho recently under the theme, ’Positioning the Oxygen City, Ho for Infrastructure Development and Tourism’’ will start from August 29to September 11, 2022 and will focus on growth, development and employment creation for the youth.
Speaking at the launch, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Divine R.K. Bosson, noted that the reliance on agriculture as the lifeblood of the people must be expanded and delved into other economic activities to enhance income generation among the people, as well as to help reduce poverty in the municipality.
Mr Bosson said it was clear that agriculture alone could no longer provide the economic needs of the people and that the Assembly had taken up the challenge to lift the majority of the people from stagnations, hence the initiative to organise the Ho EXPO 22 .
He observed that the Ho Municipality had many tourism potentials that should be developed and packaged to attract tourists. The unique location of the municipality, friendly weather, flora and fauna resources also presented the people with great potentials for tourism.
The Ho MCE said there were various real estate companies which have developed service plots for developers who wanted to own properties in the area, a development, which he stressed, had created various employment opportunities for artisans.
He advised them to develop a new mind set in order to leverage on the available opportunities. According to him, the artisans must change their attitude towards work, such as delays and poor finishing – which had characterised their activities in the past.
He also called on captains of industry, businesses, commercial farmers, hoteliers among others in and outside Ho to take advantage of HO EXPO 2022 to invest in the municipality because the time had come to develop Ho to a level that would be appreciated by all.
The Member of Parliament for Ho Central, Mr Benjamin Kpodo, noted that there were opportunities for medical, education and culture tourism, which could be developed to the benefit of the people noting that the municipality was doing well in terms of sanitation.
Mr Kpodo, however, pointed out that one major development challenge confronting the Ho Municipality was that the citizens had failed to invest in the area.
They are rather doing so in other parts of the country, thereby depriving the municipality, where they come from the needed development and called for attitudinal change that would enable them to invest at home.
The Volta Regional Director of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Mr Alexander Nketia commended the Ho Municipal Assembly for the initiative to promote development of tourism in the area, and said his outfit had already identified untapped tourism potentials in the area, which should be developed to the benefit of the people.
