Foreign tourists stay longer as domestic guests dominate Ghana’s accommodation market – GSS

Alhassan Iddrisu, Government Statistician Domestic travellers continue to dominate Ghana’s accommodation market, but foreign ors tend to stay significantly longer, highlighting the importance of increasing the length of stay to deepen tourism’s contribution to the wider economy.

Instead, the two markets play different roles, with domestic ors providing substantial volume while foreign ors in several accommodation categories record longer stays.

The GSS says domestic tourism should be treated as an important market in its own right, with accommodation providers, tour operators and destination managers encouraged to develop products that respond to domestic travel patterns.