The hospitality sub-sector is now creating two out of every 10 jobs in the country, the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said. The President also revealed that the sub-sector became the third largest contributor to the country’s total productivity, measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), coming after cocoa and, oil and gas. The President said whereas the advent of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 saw a decline in the sector’s growth evidenced by the 75 per cent decline in international tourism arrivals for that year and 45 per cent reduction in 2021, the rebound of the sector this year was hinged on very strong initiatives by the government to improve growth. At the opening of the Tema branch of the indigenous hotel range, Alisa Hotel, in Tema last Friday, President Akufo-Addo indicated that the government was a cheerleader for the private sector and would continue to introduce policy initiatives aimed at creating an enabling environment for the private sector to flouri...