The Ghana Tourism Authority, GTA, under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture, has organised the 2026 Corporate Paragliding Festival at the Odweanoma Mountain at Kwahu Atibie in the Eastern Region.
The event serves as part of the activities lined up to promote domestic tourism in the country. The three-day event is to augment the annual Kwahu Easter Paragliding Festival, which has become a preferred adventure tourism activity in Ghana.
It was organised in collaboration with the Kwahu Traditional Council to enable corporate entities, organisations, and individuals to relieve themselves from work, have fun, network, and create bonds of relationship.
The Chief Executive Officer of the GTA, Maame Efua Huadjeto, noted that the GTA is in talks with the relevant agencies to undertake visibility studies to replicate the Kwahu Paragliding festival at Adaklu in the Volta Region.
In an interview with Republic Online, the President of Kwahu Professional Network, KPN, a non-profit and non-partisan organisation dedicated to advancing the development of Kwahu, Prince Boateng, noted that their collaboration with the GTA on the initiative has added another layer to the exciting Kwahu Easter celebrations.
He noted that they are deliberating with the GTA to have stationed pilots in the area and also train native pilots.
A first-time passenger who is a US-based Ghanaian, Bryan Kwesi Simpey, expressed his excitement to Republic Press Newspaper after taking his flight.
A veteran pilot among the five pilots from the US, Chuck Smith, also spoke about the experience and the feeling of flying passengers on Odweanoma Mountain.
The celebration of the festival is not just an event but legacy since the very first paragliding experience in 2005. The Ghana Tourism Authority has remain steadfast in promoting the festival across all its marketing touch points, locally and globally.
Kwahu Easter has become Ghana’s most iconic and anticipated event on the GTA calender
In 2025, the paragliding festival recorded 10,422 visitors, a remarkable achievement that underscores the events importance. This year, the GTA said it was poised to exceed the figures it recorded in 2025.
The CEO, Maame Efua Huadjeto projected that the Authority was looking forward to have about 13,000 to 15,000. She underscored the deliberate collaboration between public-private partnership, citing the government’s inability to single-handedly drive tourism development.
However, she indicated that the Ghana Tourism Authority has begun visibility studies at Adaklu in the Volta Region as part of efforts to expand paragliding and diversify Ghana’s adventure tourism. This initiative, according to the CEO, is aimed at creating new tourism hubs, in reducing pressure on existing sites and spreading economic benefits of tourism across the country.
She said, the GTA is clear on its mandate to position Ghana as tourism hub in Africa with multiple world-class paragliding sites that attracts both domestic and international visitors all-year round.
