GHANA TOURIST CONTROL AUTHORITY ACT, 1973

(1) There is hereby established a body corporate to be known as the Ghana Tourist Authority. (2) The Authority shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name. (3) The Authority shall have power for the performance of any of its functions, or for any of its purposes, under this Act to acquire and hold movable and immovable property and may dispose of the property, and to enter into a contract or any other transaction. (4) Where there is a hindrance to the acquisition of property under subsection (3), the property may be acquired for the Authority under the State Property and Contracts Act, 1960 (C.A. 6) or under the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125) and each Act shall apply with respect to the acquisition, with the modifications that are necessary to provide for the vesting of the property acquired in the Authority and for the cost of the acquisition to be defrayed by the Authority.

The Authority is responsible for the performance of the following functions: (a) the formulation of policy and co-ordination of activities on tourism; (b) the regulation and control of the tourist industry; (c) the marketing of tourism, both in Ghana and outside Ghana, including the publication of brochures; (d) research and studies on trends in the tourist industry; (e) registration, classification, licensing and control of standards in hotel accommodation and catering enterprises; (f) participation in the construction of tourism infrastructure and superstructure particularly in pilot schemes, either by itself or in joint venture with Ghanaian or foreign investors or both through the setting up of subsidiaries for specific projects as it considers necessary; and (g) any other matters affecting tourism generally.2(2)