Accra, Nov 17, GNA - The Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the Ministry of Education is to implement a Domestic Tourism Project, which aims at encouraging students in Junior and Senior High Schools to participate actively in tourism related activities.

The project which is expected to start in the first quarter of 2012, would be implemented on pilot basis, with the initial phase focusing on ten selected schools, one in each region and preferable in the deprived communities.

The project, under the theme, "Every child, a Tourism Enthusiast", is centred on tourism as a development strategy to help achieve the eight targets of the Millennium Development Goals' and a'