Ambassador Nancy Sam has been named the new tourism ambassador for Florida's Miami-Dade County by the American city of Miami.
When a 30-person, high-ranking government delegation, including three commissioners from Florida's Miami-Dade County, visited Ghana on Friday, her appointment was officially announced.
In addition to collaborating with numerous public and commercial organisations in the fields of ports, maritime, aviation, and tourism, the visit was intended to help the participants reconnect with their cultural heritage.
It is anticipated that Ambassador Nancy Sam will assist in promoting travel between Miami-Dade County and Ghana.
In the southeast of the US state of Florida, there is a province called Miami-Dade County. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of around 2,701,767, making it the most populated county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county nationwide (USA).
Ambassador Nancy Sam's nomination was confirmed by Commissioner Oliver G. Gilbert, III, who also gave her the certificate. Gilbert said that Ambassador Sam's contributions to women's business and empowerment had merited recognition.
After the announcement, Ambassador Nancy Sam, who is also the President of Women in Tourism Ghana, spoke to the media and described how she was the first Ghanaian to start promoting travel to the United States in 1992 through student exchange programmes at Disney World Orlando.
New York, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale.
She expressed her appreciation to the delegation for their faith in her and added that her efforts had paid off.
She committed to using her more than 30 years of experience to support efforts to promote and investigate commerce, investment, and tourism between Miami-Dade County and Ghana. to West Africa as well.
The Miami-Dade County delegation was encouraged by Ambassador Nancy Q. Sam to make contact with the Diaspora Africa Forum (DAF), the sole embassy for the diaspora in Ghana, in order to forge connections on the African continent.
The Miami-Dade team was also welcomed by representatives of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), who pledged to assist all of their tourism-related initiatives to help the Beyond the Return project.
The Miami-Dade County Commissioner, District 3, Keon Hardemon, the Miami-Dade County Commissioner, District 9, Kionne L. McGhee, and Ambassador Dr. Erieka Bennett, the founder and head of Mission Diaspora Africa Forum, were also members of the delegation.
Ambassador Nancy Sam is the CEO of Staple Travel and Tours, one of the top businesses in Accra, as well as the Vice President of the Economic Community for the West Africa States (ECOWAS) Tourism Private Sector Confederation.
She served two terms as President of the Tour Operators Union of Ghana (TOUGHA), and from 2014 to 2018, she served as Treasurer for the Ghana Tourism Federation (GHATOF).
For supporting heritage tourism, she was recognised in 2008 April by the then-New York senator Ruth Hassel Thompson.