The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has indicated its intentions to effectively collaborate with the country’s security services to clamp down on organizers of sex parties.

According to the tourism regulator, it will invoke the Tourism Act 2011, Act 817, that established it to, investigate and take measures to eliminate illegal, dishonourable, unsound and improper activities in relation to any activity regulated under the Act.

The GTA’s caution comes in the wake of the increasing rate of advertisement of sex parties and other sex-related activities by tourism establishments including hotels, nightclubs, movie houses and pubs in the country. 

Last weekend, the tourism authority, together with the Ghana Police Service and the National Security, stormed the premises of the Potomac Hotel in Gbawe, a suburb of Accra to stop the organisation of an advertised sex party. 

“The Authority wishes to remind all stakeholders and the public that it will not hesitate to invoke the relevant sections of its establishment Act on Advertisement and Promotion to bring all illegal acts and any perpetrator to book,” the authority said in a statement. 

The GTA said it “will continue to work with the Police Service and other Security Agencies to close down and prosecute tourism enterprises and event organisers involved in these acts that cast a slur on the image of Ghana.” 

“The Authority will stop at nothing to sanitise the industry towards promotion and marketing Ghana as a safe and sustainable tourism destination,” the authority added.

The Authority called for the support of Ghanaians to make the country a leading tourism destination in West Africa.