The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has collected over GH¢39 million under the Tourism Development Levy within the past six years, Mr Akwasi Agyeman, the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the GTA, has disclosed. He said the Authority had invested about GH¢18 million of the amount into an investment product, while a loan which was contracted for construction of certain projects had been paid. Mr Agyeman made this known at the Meet-the-Press Series of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts in Accra. He said the collection of the levy started in 2012 with the GTA collecting GH¢185, 647.00, it collected GH¢3, 024, 211.00 in 2013 and a total of GH¢5, 180,328.00 was collected in 2014. In 2015, the Authority collected GH¢8, 762,349.00, in 2016 a total of GH¢10, 545,633.00 was collected and in 2017, GH¢11, 675,900.00 was collected. The CEO of the GTA said the levy supported four cardinal areas, including marketing, promotion, tourism investment and capacity building within the t...