{"id":212544,"date":"2025-11-04T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-outbound-tourism-hits-gh%c2%a24bn-in-2023-gss\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:46:54","slug":"ghana-outbound-tourism-hits-gh%c2%a24bn-in-2023-gss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-outbound-tourism-hits-gh%c2%a24bn-in-2023-gss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Outbound Tourism Hits Gh\u00a24bn in 2023 &#8211; GSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The country&#8217;s outbound tourism, involving same-day and overnight trips, recorded a total of <em>470,806 visitors<\/em>, with total expenditure amounting to <em>GH\u00a24.0 billion<\/em>, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) <em>Domestic and Outbound Tourism Survey (DOTS)<\/em> has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The DOTS, dubbed <em>Outbound Same-day and Overnight Visitors<\/em>, conducted in 2023, provides reliable data on how Ghanaians travel, spend, and engage in tourism, offering insights to guide investment, policy, and service delivery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">It said a total of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511040634.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s outbound tourism, involving same-day and overnight trips, recorded a total of 470,806 visitors, with total expenditure amounting to GH\u00a24.0 billion, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) Domestic and Outbound Tourism Survey (DOTS) has revealed. The DOTS, dubbed Outbound Same-day and Overnight Visitors, conducted in 2023, provides reliable data on how Ghanaians travel, spend, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,45258,4508,4509,28040,7111,257,52791,254,1634],"class_list":["post-212544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gh4bn","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-gss","tag-hits","tag-news","tag-outbound","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}