Rebecca Akpene Owusu, one Ghana’s beauticians with large following, has disclosed plans of building a school centre to provide training, capacity building and engage in education and sensitisation activities to upgrade the skills of the creative industry players.
Rebecca who deals in Natural hair care, dreadlocks, haircut, pedicure, piercings and hair products is the CEO of Becks Touch, was of the view that since the creative industry has a great future, a potential that could contribute immensely toward the socio-economic development of the country.
She indicated that there was the need for all the players to come together and work as a team to promote the industry.
She pointed out that the major challenge to the tourist centres was its bad roads, which should be tackled to promote the tourism business in the Ghana.
It is of the view that promoting Ghanaian dishes would help boost tourism in the country as tourists would pay to know much about the Ghanaian culture and the kind of food the people eat.
“My aim is to promote Ghana’s tourism industry to the outside world for them to see Ghana as a country with tourist attraction centres,” she said.
She added that a lot more needed to be done with respect to developing the tourism potentials in Ghana, and called for the support of all.
Her company, she noted, believes in socialization and quality production, adding that even though they would like to expand operations to give more employment to the youth, they would also ensure that the best is given to their many customers.