One of Cameroon's most visited ecotourism sites, Ebogo village, located some 60 km from Yaounde and 18 km south of Mbalmayo on the Yaounde-Ebolowa highway, is undergoing renovation under the co-supervision of the Ministry of Tourism and the World Tourism Organisation, WTO. The Ebogo ecotourism site is receiving a facelift with the construction of basic infrastructure. Visiting the site on Thursday June 23, journalists from several media organisations were introduced to various construction sites going on in the village. The visit by journalists was part of a five-day seminar on tourism communication organised in Yaounde from June 20 to 24 by the Ministry of Tourism.
Under the direction of tourist guide, Ernest Onana, the journalists saw the completed modern mud-brick buildings hosting lodging facilities and a restaurant, overlooking the Nyong River and the dense Equatorial forest. A hundred metres away, the construction of two environmentally-friendly bungalows is also going on. The beachfront of the River Nyong has been laid with concrete stairs that lead up to the restaurant.
"This renovation work is just the start of Sustainable Tourism for Eliminating Poverty Project, STEP," said Ernest Onana. STEP, he said, is a sustainable tourism project at the Ebogo site whose purpose is to fight poverty through the development of tourist activities and to create jobs for youth in the local community made up of three villages: Ebogo, Akoumbeguesi and Soasi. Sponsored jointly by the Ministry of Tourism and WTO, the project aims at developing basic infrastructure such as maintaining the access road, installing water and electricity supply; training and sensitising stakeholders; creating an organisation for the development of Ebogo and its environs as well as the constructing bungalows and conference rooms.
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