The Ghana Tourist Board is to support tourist-oriented disciplines and programmes being pursued at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST to produce quality graduates to operate the tourism industry.

The Board has resolved to give logistics and financial support to strengthen the capacity of the production unit of the Faculties of Fine Arts and Industrial Art as well as the Centre for Cultural and African Studies.

These were contained in a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Ghana Tourist Board and the College of Art and Social Sciences of the University in Kumasi.

The Executive Director of the Ghana Tourist Board, Martin Mireku initialled for the Board while the vice Chancellor, Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa signed on behalf of KNUST.

The two parties agreed to engage in a joint research in producing a tourist guide. The Ghana Tourist Board is also to involve the Department of Publishing Studies in the printing, designing and the publication of documents of the Board.

The College of Art and Social Sciences shall also be represented on the relevant committees of the Ghana Tourist Board.

The Memorandum, which is for a two-year period, will be renewed every year.

The Pro Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor William Otoo Ellis who witnessed the ceremony described it as significant, because of the strides it will make in the University and Tourism Industry.