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Heritage Tourism Services Limited welcomes you to Ghana, West Africa by saying AKWAABA — to Ghana, the land of rich culture, and to West Africa, a region with richly diverse cultural heritage.
We provide professional travel services and rich cultural tourist experiences in the areas of accommodation, events management, and tours ranging from heritage, cultural, eco-tourism and educational tourism. We are specialists in organising students’ study-abroad programmes, homestays and research coordinating tours.
We are also well known for the organisation of language lessons, kente weaving, drumming and dancing lessons. We organise service learning and meet-the-people activities for foreigners in communities across Ghana and West Africa as a way of empowering local communities through tourism.
Travel to Ghana and West Africa TODAY by contacting Heritage Tourism Services for the trip of your lifetime.
“Your Heritage – Your Strength”
Kakum canopy walkway, Mole National Park, Wli Waterfalls, Bobiri Forest, Ankasa Reserve, Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary and more.
Kumasi craft villages, kente weaving, Adinkra stamping, drumming & dancing lessons, naming ceremonies and festivals.
UNESCO slave castles of Elmina & Cape Coast, Assin Manso slave river, Salaga market, Larabanga Mosque — walk the Sankofa trail.
Day excursions to Aburi Gardens, Akosombo Dam, Shai Hills, Boti Falls and community festivals — tailored for groups and families.
Air-conditioned saloon cars, 4x4s, minibuses and coaches with professional, well-trained drivers for any itinerary.
From 3-star city hotels to beach resorts and the future 30-room residential facility at the African Heritage Centre.
Our Tours
Seven fully-guided itineraries across Ghana, Togo and Benin. Open any package to view its complete day-by-day programme.
Akwaaba! Welcome to Ghana. You are met, assisted and transferred to your hotel by Heritage Tours. Evening orientation and welcome dinner. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Morning checkout and flight/drive to Tamale, the Northern regional capital, stopping in between for lunch. Arrive in the evening and check into your hotel. Overnight Gariba Lodge.
Morning departure after breakfast to the Salaga Slave Market, the largest slave market in Ghana, and the slave wells. Return to Tamale for lunch, then continue to the University for Development Studies — drive through the campus and interact with students and professors. Overnight 3-star hotel.
A day of guided cultural experiences around Tamale — markets, crafts and community visits with our trained guides. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Checkout and drive to Yendi. Courtesy call on the Overlord of Dagbon; visit the burial site of the great slave raider Babatu. Return to Tamale for lunch before visiting the leather market. Evening drive to Bolgatanga.
After breakfast depart to the Paga Crocodile Pond where crocodiles are revered by the people. Continue to the slave camp at Nania to see where slaves were camped before trekking south. After lunch, visit the Tongo mystic rocks. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Checkout to Wa, Upper West regional capital. Visit the Wa Naa Palace, continue to the Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary. After lunch continue to Gwollu — the slave wall and mystic baobab tree. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Checkout and depart to Mole National Park, stopping at the mystic rock and the Larabanga Mosque. Evening overnight at Mole Motel.
Checkout; visit Mole National Park to see elephants, monkeys and other wildlife. Afternoon continue to Kumasi, stopping at Kintampo Waterfalls. Overnight 3-star hotel.
City tour visiting Manhyia Palace of the Ashanti Monarch. After lunch visit the craft villages — Ahwiaa (wood carving), Bonwire (Kente) and Ntonso (Adinkra cloth). Overnight 3-star hotel.
Visit Elmina Castle (built by the Portuguese in 1482, the first and largest European fortification on the coast of Africa) and Cape Coast Castle (built by the British in 1665), which houses the West Africa Historical Museum. Worship for the ancestors at the Door of No Return. Both castles are UNESCO World Heritage monuments. After lunch, Kakum National Park — evergreen forest of ~360 km² with trees up to 65 m, elephants, bongo, primates and over 400 butterfly species. Experience the famous canopy walkway. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Visit the University of Cape Coast, then drive to Accra. Evening farewell dinner with cultural entertainment. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Evening transfer to the airport and check-in for your flight.
Akwaaba! Welcome to the motherland, Ghana. You are met, assisted and transferred to your hotel by Heritage Tours. Evening orientation and welcome dinner. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park honouring Ghana’s first president, a great Pan-Africanist; the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre for Pan-African cultural studies, where the father of Pan-Africanism lived his last days and is buried; Parliament House, International Conference Centre and State House; finally the National Museum and the craft market for souvenirs. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Depart to the Ashanti Region, stopping at the Diasporic Heritage Centre for lunch and a traditional naming ceremony. Continue to Kumasi. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Manhyia Palace, the Cultural Centre and the Okomfo Anokye Sword. Afternoon to Ahwiaa (wood carvings, stools, fertility dolls), Bonwire (the famous Kente) and Ntonso (Adinkra cloth). Overnight 3-star hotel.
Drive through the rainforest to the Central Region. Stop at Assin Manso — the Slave River “last bath” site and burial place of remains of former slaves exhumed from New York’s Wall Street, Jamaica and the USA. The last stop en route to the coast before shipment to the Americas.
Through the fishing communities of Cape Coast, capital till 1877. Visit Elmina Castle (1482) and Cape Coast Castle (1665, home of the West Africa Historical Museum). Ancestor worship at the Door of No Return. UNESCO World Heritage monuments. Overnight Elmina Beach Resort.
Kakum National Park — evergreen forest, medicinal plants and the one-of-a-kind canopy walkway. Continue to Accra after lunch. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Last-minute shopping, packing and meetings. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Morning transfer to the airport; check-in for your flight to the U.S.A.
Arrive Accra Airport; meet, assist and transfer to your hotel by Heritage Tourism Services staff. Relax after a long night trip. Evening orientation and welcome dinner. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Ghana’s premier university — drive through faculties and departments with a lecture presentation by a professor on a topic of interest. Lunch at the University Guest House; visit the library and bookshop. Continue to Aburi Botanical Gardens (est. 1890) and the Mampong Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine — insight into traditional treatment of diabetes, blood pressure and other illnesses. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park; W.E.B. Du Bois Centre; Parliament House, International Conference Centre and State House; National Museum and craft market. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Through the dotted fishing communities to Cape Coast (capital till 1877). Elmina Castle (1482) and Cape Coast Castle (1665); tour the Elmina fishing village and learn about Ghana’s fishing industry. Afternoon relaxation by the beach. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Built in 1961 to train graduate teachers. Interact with faculty, attend a lecture presentation, lunch at the university restaurant and relax by the beach. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Kakum National Park — canopy walkway, forest ecology and medicinal plants. Through the rainforest to the Ashanti Kingdom of Gold. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Manhyia Palace, Cultural Centre, and the craft villages of Ahwiaa, Bonwire and Ntonso. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Six-hour journey with lunch at the Diasporic Heritage Centre. Arrive Ho; visit an elementary school and an art studio. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Wli Waterfalls — the highest in West Africa at up to 400 m, reached through evergreen forest. Naomasi Herbal Centre: plant-based medicine for malaria, cancer, diabetes and other diseases. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Tour the Akosombo hydroelectric dam over the Volta Lake — one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, generating power for Ghana and neighbouring countries. Lunch by the lakeside; continue to Accra. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Service-learning centre: teaching, construction, farming and more. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Morning at the service-learning centre; afternoon visit to the Cocoa Research Institute. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Morning swimming at the beach; evening traditional naming ceremony, farewell dinner and fashion show. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Morning transfer to the airport; check-in for your flight.
Akwaaba! Met, assisted and transferred by Heritage Tours. Evening orientation and welcome dinner. Overnight 3-star hotel.
National Museum, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, W.E.B. Du Bois Centre, Makola Market, the Art & Craft Market, Independence Square, State House and International Conference Centre. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Study tour of Ghana’s premier university; Aburi Botanical Gardens (1890) — cultural and medicinal trees, birds and butterflies; Mampong plant-medicine research centre. Continue to Ada. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Water sports on the Volta Lake — cruise to the estuary. Overnight 3-star hotel.
The highest falls in West Africa (up to 400 m) through evergreen forest; afternoon at Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Tafo Cocoa Research Institute; lunch at the Diasporic Heritage Centre; continue to Kumasi. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Manhyia Palace and the Cultural Centre; afternoon at Bobiri Forest Reserve — butterflies and virgin forest. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Ahwiaa, Bonwire, Ntonso and Adamaswase kente village — village life and kente exhibition. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Kakum National Park and its canopy walkway; through the rainforest to Cape Coast. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Guided tour of Fort Metal Cross before checking into Busua Beach Resort. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Nzulezo — the village on stilts on the Amansuri Lagoon; Ankasa Forest Reserve near the Ivorian border — tropical rainforest, plant uses and the Bamboo Cathedral; evening turtle village visit. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Elmina Castle (1482) and Cape Coast Castle (1665); Elmina fishing village. Continue to Accra. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Morning transfer and check-in.
Akwaaba! Met, assisted and transferred by Heritage Tours. Evening orientation and welcome dinner. Overnight 3-star hotel.
National Museum, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, W.E.B. Du Bois Centre, Makola Market, craft market, Independence Square, State House and International Conference Centre. Overnight 3-star hotel.
To Cape Coast (capital till 1877): Elmina Castle (1482) and Cape Coast Castle (1665) with the West Africa Historical Museum — both UNESCO World Heritage monuments. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Kakum National Park and the canopy walkway; drive through rainforest to the Ashanti Kingdom of Gold. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Manhyia Palace, Cultural Centre, and KNUST — the science-based university founded in 1960. After lunch drive six hours to Ho in the Volta Region. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Ahwiaa, Bonwire, Ntonso and Adamaswase kente village — village life and kente exhibition. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Stop at the Diasporic Heritage Centre for a short naming ceremony and lunch; visit the Cocoa Research Institute at Tafo. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Day at leisure for last-minute shopping, packing and meetings; evening airport transfer and check-in.
Akwaaba to the motherland! Met, assisted and transferred by Heritage Tours. Evening orientation and welcome dinner. Overnight 3-star hotel.
National Museum, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Du Bois Centre, Makola Market, craft market, Independence Square and State House. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Larteh Akonadi shrine for spiritual healing and rituals; Awukugua — where the legendary Ashanti priest Okomfo Anokye began his spiritual works; Mampong plant-medicine research centre; Aburi Botanical Gardens. Overnight 3-star hotel.
To Cape Coast; stop at the Posuban shrine at Mankesim where the remains of the founders of Fante are kept. Tour the facility. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Elmina Castle (1482) and Cape Coast Castle (1665) — UNESCO World Heritage monuments. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Kakum National Park and canopy walkway; onward through the rainforest to Kumasi. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Nana Bosomakotre shrine at Wenchi — spiritual performances of a great shrine; the Tra-Kweku Fri shrine, famed for discovering a historic cure. Return via Manhyia. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Ahwiaa, Bonwire and Ntonso; afternoon — the Black & White shrine of Nana Abass and the Antoa River shrine to see how cures can be reversed. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Manhyia Palace, Cultural Centre and Okomfo Anokye Sword; stop at the Diasporic Heritage Centre for a traditional naming ceremony and lunch. Overnight Accra.
Trokoshi shrine at Adidome and Nogokpo; Sofoti and Adzimah shrines; the Blackhud research museum at Klikor. Overnight Sogakope.
Return to Accra; afternoon visit to the Togobui shrine at Kokrobite; evening dinner. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Join Afrikania Mission to worship the traditional way. Evening farewell dinner with cultural entertainment. Overnight 3-star hotel.
Evening transfer to the airport for departure.
Arrival at Cotonou International Airport. Assistance and formalities; transfer to hotel. Dinner and overnight.
Cotonou city tour: residential and administrative districts, the harbour, Dantokpa Market — paradise for shopping — and the fascinating fetish market. Depart to Ganvie, the “Venice of Africa,” with straw houses on stilts, floating markets and the island cemetery; lovers’ lane, handicraft centre and Francophonie Villa. On to Ouidah, City-Museum and world capital of Vodun: Sacred Forest of King Kpasse, the history museum in the Portuguese Fort, Temple of Sacred Pythons, the Slaves’ Route, Auction Place, Tree of Forgetfulness, Zomai dungeon, Zoungbodji Memorial and the Door of No Return.
To Abomey, ancient capital of the powerful Danhome kingdom. Stop at Allada — memorial to Toussaint Louverture, hero of Haiti’s freedom and native of Allada. Goho Place dedicated to King Behanzin who fought French conquest; UNESCO World Heritage museum in the palace of Kings Guezo and Glele — royal and sacred objects, the grave of the 41 queens, the throne of Ghezo set on four skulls of enemy chiefs, low-relief history books, and the story of the Amazons, the fearless woman warriors. Crafts including the world-famous applique.
Stop at Dassa-Zoume — grotto of the Virgin Mary, a Catholic pilgrimage site; Savalou — the powerful Dankoli voodoo shrine where wishes come true with offering; cross cotton and cashew farms; Djougou market; picturesque mountain village of Taneka-Koko and its fetish priest. Arrival late afternoon; Natitingou city tour.
Regional museum of Somba ethnographic artefacts; discover the Tata houses that protected people against wild animals and enemies at war. Excursion to Koussoukoingou and Boukoumbé villages; cross to Tanguieta and Tanougou waterfalls with a natural swimming pool of safe bathing water.
Border formalities at Boukoumbé; cross the Tamberma valley with its fortified Tata habitats — recently inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage. Typical tata house visit. Cross to Niamtougou and Kabye land — the second-largest ethnic group in Togo and expert farmers of stony land. Kara river terraces and market.
Aledjo lookout — from where witches were pushed as a death sentence; sugar-cane plantations at Ane; ruins of the German Kamina telegraph station linking the colony to Berlin. Rocky-town market. Cocoa and cotton plantations; Togo’s greenest area — the Anyone and kpime waterfalls. Overnight Kpalime.
Klotz Mountains with views over the Volta Lake on clear days; Vialle Castle, former colonial residence dominating the region. Nyive border to Ho; Adomi Bridge at Atimpoku; Akosombo Dam delivering electricity to Ghana, Benin and Togo.
En route: Assirima waterfalls and the cocoa, coffee and cola research centre at Koforidua; cross the Ashanti forest belt. Ashanti museum, handicraft centre and central market — among the biggest in West Africa.
Stop at Obuasi, Ghana’s biggest gold mine. Cape Coast Castle — male and female dungeons, death cell, Gate of No-Return — from where millions were deported to the USA, Caribbean, Cuba, Jamaica and Brazil.
St George’s/Elmina Castle (1482), biggest transit castle of the slave trade, seized by the Dutch in 1637, now UNESCO World Heritage. Kakum National Park — 350+ butterfly species, primates, mahogany and ebony; the suspended canopy walkway deep over the forest. Feed crocodiles at Hans Cottage; relax at the beach.
Ghana’s capital: ministries area, Makola Market, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial, handicraft centre, and the fantastic fantasy coffins of Teshie — a bible coffin for a pastor, Mercedes coffin for a driver, eagle coffin for a king.
Stop at Sogakope on the Volta River near its mouth; border formalities; Lome city tour — old German cathedral and the neo-Gothic Lome Cathedral built by Germans early in the 20th century; central Grand Marche with the famous “Mama Benz” textile traders of West Africa; handicraft centre for final souvenirs.
Morning shopping including the Akodessewa fetish market — leaves and bones used in medicines against physical and spiritual ailments; have your oracle done to know your present and future. Beach relaxation at hotel. Night airport transfer and departure.
Beyond the Itineraries
We organise service learning and meet-the-people activities for foreigners in communities across Ghana and West Africa — sharing language, food, drumming, dancing and daily life — empowering local communities economically and educationally through their tourism heritage.
We assist researchers who want to write books, journal papers and produce films — coordinating access, institutions, translators and fieldwork logistics across Ghana and beyond.
Experiences
For years, universities, colleges, churches and organisations from the United States and beyond have trusted Heritage Tourism Services with their programmes in Ghana.
Virginia, USA
Study-abroad programmes featuring cultural performances, farewell dinners, service learning activities, Wli waterfalls, slave castles, lectures at the universities, soccer matches and a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador.
Illinois, USA
Presentation of certificates, tie-and-dye lessons, drumming and dancing lessons, Cape Coast Castle, Aburi hills, fishing community visits and the Du Bois Centre.
Chicago, USA
Larabanga Mosque, Asantehene Osei Tutu II, slave camps, Aburi wood carving, Chief of Kpembe, wrestling rocks, War Naa Palace, Royal Tree of Yendi, Mystic Stone, Naa Gbewaa Palace, Mole Park, Tomb of Babatu, Black Volta hippo sanctuary and farewell dinners.
Chicago, USA
Pilgrimage visit to the Cape Coast Castle — walking in the footsteps of ancestors through the dungeons and the Door of No Return.
Ohio, USA
Faculty-led heritage programming connecting music, history and Pan-African studies with living culture in Ghana.
Chicago, USA
Group visit to the slave market/river — Donko Nsu — in the Central Region of Ghana.
Chicago, USA · 2018
A traditional Akan marriage celebration tour — customs, regalia, rites and festivities experienced first-hand.
Drumming, dancing & fashion shows
Receive your African name
Ground Services
Well-maintained, air-conditioned vehicles with professional drivers — the same well-trained drivers behind our tour success.
We secure quality lodging at negotiated rates — from 3-star city hotels to beach resorts, eco-lodges and homestays.
The African Heritage Centre is a Pan-African Heritage Centre established to promote, project and sustain the rich historical, religious and cultural heritage of the African. The centre was established in 2009 and is located at Anyinam in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
The African Heritage Centre is a centre for the promotion and coordination of African cultural and historical values through the establishment of an international-standard library, museum and research centre for Pan-African studies. The centre also coordinates related services such as pharmacy, fashion, tourism, restaurant, among others.
A Pan-African centre for meditation and research committed to the preservation of African historical, religious, cultural and artistic values through collaboration with other international institutions and personalities in establishing a world-class centre of research and meditation.
Inside the Centre
An international-standard library and archive collecting regalias, pictures, speeches and artistic works of Africans across the globe to assist researchers — plus publications of our founder, with ten published works and two books in progress.
Browse the Bookshop — read abstracts freeA hall of fame honouring Pan-African giants — Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Du Bois, Yaa Asantewaa, King Behanzin, Toussaint Louverture and countless unnamed ancestors whose stories our tours bring alive.
Our restaurant serves authentic African cuisine — from jollof and fufu to kontomire and kelewele — alongside cooking demonstrations, food heritage talks and farm-to-table produce from the Heritage Farm.
A sacred space for meditation and reflection on African spirituality — traditional religion, psychic healing traditions and reverent encounters with living shrines, guided respectfully by custodians.
The centre coordinates other related services — pharmacy, fashion, tourism and restaurant — making it a true home of Pan-African living heritage.
Administration
The centre is administered by a five-member board of directors who serve as advisory board to the Executive Director, who runs the day-to-day affairs of the centre.
Director of Neighbourhood & Community Partnership
Depaul UniversityTel: 312-362-6525 · Cell: 773-931-1215
Department of Music
University of DaytonTel: 937-229-3936
Department of Psychology
Randolph–Macon CollegeTel: 804-798-4731
Department of History
Randolph–Macon CollegeTel: 804-752-3218 · awjefferson@rmc.edu
Department of Languages
University of Ghana, P.O. Box 50, Legon, Accra, GhanaTel: 0243 571 431 · asafe70@yahoo.co.uk
Emmanuel Kofi Bempong
P.O. Box 7294, Accra-North, Ghana
Tel: 0244 525 595
Email: bemaila@yahoo.com
Dr. Robert Hanserd
Department of Humanities, Histories & Social Studies
Columbia College Chicago
624 South Michigan Ave, 1300-Q
Tel: 312-369-7176 · Cell: 773-344-4554
Life Patrons
President, AARCO Travel Agency
2226 East 71st Street, Chicago, Illinois 60649, USA
Tel: 773-363-0950
Patron
297-W Lake St, Elmurst, IL 60126–1506, USA
Omanhene of Abeadze Traditional Area & President, Central Regional House of Chiefs
P.O. Box CC86, Cape Coast
dasebrekwebu@yahoo.com · Tel: 0240 304 935
Director of Graduate STEM Research, Tennessee State University
3116 Thistle Down Ln, Antioch, TN 37013, USA
Tel: 615-953-6463
Director, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gettysburg College
Weidensall Hall, Box 2450, 300 North Washington St, Gettysburg, PA 17325–1400, USA
nlebon@gettysburg.edu · Tel: 717-337-6781
Ongoing Development Projects
The centre is constructing 30 rooms of accommodation for researchers — most currently at foundation, window and lintel levels.
Construction of the museum and library has started — the future home of the Books collection, African Heroes hall and research archives.
The offices for the Diasporic Heritage Centre are also under construction, presently at lintel level.
Your Heritage – Your Strength
Support the 30-room researchers’ facility, the library & museum, and youth programmes. Rooms may be named after donors and their families.
Make a Donation EnquiryHeritage Network
The network unites academics, chiefs, international partners and professionals committed to Pan-African heritage.
Founder & Executive Director
Senior Lecturer and Head of Communication Studies Department, Sunyani Technical University. Over 20 years in tourism & hospitality and academia; former African Studies Coordinator; ten+ publications and two forthcoming books.
Vice President
Deputy leadership of the organisation and patron of the African Heritage Society — P.O. Box 7294, Accra-North. Tel: 0550 661 590.
Chicago · Dayton · Virginia · Legon
Directors from DePaul University, University of Dayton, Randolph–Macon College and the University of Ghana; American Representative Dr. Robert Hanserd of Columbia College Chicago.
See Board of DirectorsAnyinamhene Barima Okoyeabusua Duodu — Royal patron. Tel: 0547 750 842 · Sulley Ibrahim, Patron — Tel: 0553 233 284
Knowledge Exchange
Lecture presentations are woven into our tours — professors from the University of Ghana, University of Cape Coast and partner institutions deliver sessions on topics of interest right on the road.
Our founder, a senior lecturer and Head of the Communication Studies Department at Sunyani Technical University, coordinates African Studies programming, symposiums, workshops, seminars and conferences on Pan-Africanism — inspiring the youth toward higher levels of success.
The planned world-class conference centre at Anyinam will host researchers and resource persons from the diaspora for major gatherings.
Learning Beyond Walls
Faculty-led study-abroad programmes (HTP3) with lectures at the University of Ghana and University of Cape Coast, plus botanical, medical and cocoa research institute visits.
Teaching, construction and farming placements with community immersion — empowering rural communities while students earn real-world experience.
Language lessons, kente weaving, tie-and-dye, drumming and dancing lessons — hosted at the centre and in partner villages like Bonwire and Ntonso.
Engineers & Facility Management
Our engineering arm manages the group’s property portfolio — from the growing campus at Anyinam to client developments nationwide.
Est. 2020 · An offshoot of the African Heritage Centre
The African Heritage Society is a Pan-African international human-rights society established to promote, project and sustain the rich historical, religious and cultural heritage of the African — while ensuring the human rights of the vulnerable in African society: orphans, destitutes, school dropouts, the homeless, poor school children, the sick and the needy, are cared for and protected.
It builds the mental capacity and capabilities of African youth through workshops, lectures, seminars and educational trips, and plays an advocacy role in preserving heritage sites by protecting the environment. Founded in 2020 by Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Apraku Bempong.
Vision: Committed to the promotion of African cultural values, human rights, and building the mental capacity of the African youth.
Founder & President: Dr. Emmanuel Bempong, Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, Sunyani Technical University · Tel 0244 525 595 · Offices: Accra, Sunyani and Anyinam · bemaila@yahoo.com
Our Team
Our secret of success lies in our well-educated and well-trained tour guides and drivers — led by a dedicated management team.
President
Founder of HTSL and the African Heritage Centre. Masters from the University of Ghana, PGDip CIM UK; 20+ years across tourism, hospitality and academia; Senior Lecturer & Head of Communication Studies, Sunyani Technical University; author of 10+ publications.
Vice President
Deputy leader of the organisation, supporting strategy, partnerships and the work of the African Heritage Society.
Facilities Manager
Oversees facilities across all locations — including the ongoing 30-room accommodation, museum and library projects at Anyinam.
Events Manageress
Plans and delivers events — naming ceremonies, farewells, conferences and cultural performances that guests remember for life.
Tourism Officer
Designs itineraries and guides guests through Ghana’s heritage, eco and cultural treasures.
Administrative Officer
In charge of the day-to-day running of affairs of Heritage Tourism Services Limited — rose through the ranks over seven years from tours officer to administrative manager.
About Us
Community-based tourism is our speciality. Through student exchange programmes, university and college study-abroad programmes, community service learning and research coordination, we offer travellers rare first-hand experiences of local communities — their language, food, drumming and dancing — and their ecotourism and historical sites, sustaining rural and deprived communities with additional income.
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Moments · Events · Programmes
Scenes from our tours, festivals, ceremonies and academic programmes — catalogued by event.
Contact Us & Locations
AFRICAN HERITAGE CENTRE — P.O. Box 7294, Accra-North, Ghana, West-Africa
Telephone: 0244 525 595 / 020 722 1470 · Email: heritagetourism2000@yahoo.co.uk · WhatsApp
African Heritage Centre
Eastern Region — centre for research and meditation, library, museum & Heritage Farm.
Doboro, Near Accra
Head office operations · P.O. Box 7294, Accra-North · Tel: 0244 525 595 / 020 722 1470.
50C Asuakwa
Digital address: BY-0118-3735 · Bono Regional office.