Deputy Finance Minister-designate, Dr. Stephen Amoah has called on stakeholders in the tourism industry to prioritize domestic tourism as a means to stabilize the depreciating cedi.

The tourism sector ranks among the top four sectors bringing foreign exchange inflows into the country.

Speaking at the GIPC Quarter Two CEOs Breakfast Meeting in Accra on Thursday, Dr. Amoah emphasized the need for stakeholders to drive local economic growth through homegrown policies.

“One thing I have seen about Africa is that we have a lot of ideas but sometimes the global models control us too much. We need to build homegrown policy tools that specifically address our needs. So we need to do all these things and make sure that we all repent…let’s begin to show that high level of patronage and keep the money here.”

“We always talk about cedi, cedi, if we change dollars and go there why won’t the cedi suffer? But if you stay here the dollar people come, they will demand our currency. As a country, we have everything at our disposal to develop tourism because God has given us. God has endowed us,” he stated.