GC and partners identify strategic areas to improve Liberia tourism sector Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Monrovia, Liberia - The Governance Commission of Liberia and key stakeholders are calling for serious attention towards the country's tourism sector. Speaking at a day-long policy dialogue organized by the Governance Commission incollaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Liberia National Tourism Authority (LNTA) on the review of country's tourism sector at the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Ministerial Complex in Monrovia on Tuesday, experts and stakeholders at the event rallied national government support towards improving the tourism sector which they considered as one of the key revenue generating areas of Liberia. Delivering the official opening statement, the Acting Chair of the Governance Commission Professor Alaric Tokpa lauded the Commisioner, Program Manager, and staff of the Public Sector Reforms Mandate Area of the GC for initiating the tourism-focused dialogue. Professor Tokpa underscored tourism as one of the assets of Liberia. "The tourism areas in Liberia are diversed and profound. These include lakes, islands, waterfalls, animals, birds, and pristine forests. These are not just destinations, they are invitations. Invitations to explore; invitations to connect; and invitations to believe. They offer more than leisure; they offer legacy. They remind us that tourism, when properly nurtured with care and vision, can be a catalyst for job creation, entrepreneurship, and community empowerment," Acting Chair Tokpa emphasized. Also speaking, the Oversight Commissioner of the Public Sector Reforms Mandate Area of the Governance Commission Madam Sianeh S. Juah recounted the significance of Liberia’s tourism sector. She indicated that Liberia has some of the beautiful sites for tourist attractions, but limited attention is being given to it. She noted that with the ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development, particularly having a tourism component, it was important for stakeholders to foster better strategies and policies to encourage tourists to travel to Liberia. Other speakers at the policy dialogue are proposing a visa-upon-arrival program for travelers coming to Liberia. They intoned that the visa-on-arrival policy, if implemented by the government, will remove some of the bureaucratic button neck tourists' experience during their visit to the country. For her part, the Country Director of Wild Chimpanzee Foundation Dr. Annika Hillers described Liberia as a country with a habit of hospitality, beautiful biodiversity, and ecosystem. But Dr. Hillers is cautioning the government and citizens against granting concession companies access to areas designated as tourism cites in Liberia, saying the biodiversity and eco-tourism sectors are gradually being depleted. The biodiversity and ecosystem are gradually being depleted, especially around the southeastern part of Liberia. "This situation needs to be urgently addressed by the government. Or future generations will be deprived of seeing those indigenous plants and animal species," the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation Country Director stressed. The policy dialogue which was held under the theme, "a review of Liberia's tourism sector for sustained economic growth and development," brought together cross section of stakeholders and experts from government, private sector and members of the International community. Other participants of the Tuesday policy dialogue also included representatives from the Guinean and Sierra Leonean embassies in Liberia.
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