National Chocolate Week

National Chocolate Week 2024

The 2024 national chocolate Week has been slated for February 9-14, 2024. This is a national celebration to highlight Ghana’s unique cocoa products and also place Ghana as the preferred destination for cocoa-based tourism while appreciating the contribution of the stakeholders within the industry.

Activities will be held under the theme “Eat Chocolate, Stay Healthy and Grow Ghana” and sub-theme: Explore Ghana, Eat Chocolate

PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES

• Mosque Visitations at National Mosque and Cantonments mosque – Friday, 9^th February, 2024 @ 10:00am
• Health Walk (Accra Tourist Information Centre – Cocoa House, Kingsway – Saturday, 10^th February 2024 @ 5:30am
• Opening of Chocolate Exhibition – Cocoa House & Kingsway, Saturday, 10^th February 2024 @ 9am
• Church Visitations at selected churches – Sunday, 11^th February, 2024 @ 8am – 12pm
• Men In Apron, Cook-Off Session between Stakeholders @ Cocoa House – Monday, 12^th February, 2024 @ 2pm – 7pm.
• Time With School Children – Cocoa Quiz Competition for Senior High schools (SHS) @ Cocoa House on Tuesday, 13^th, February, 2024 @ 2pm
• Tour with a bar of chocolate – Selected Tourist Sites in all 16 regions of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park on Wednesday, 14^th, February, 2024 @ 9am
• The Chocolatarium (The business of chocolate) @ Accra Tourist Information Centre (ATIC) on Wednesday, 14^th, February, 2024 – 9am.
• Chocolate Exhibition @ Chocolate City on Wednesday, 14^th, February, 2024 – 9am.

News Updates

1. GNA – https://gna.org.gh/2024/02/cocobod-artisanal-chocolate-makers-to-buy-beans-directly-from-cocoa-marketing-company/
2. Business Ghana – https://www.businessghana.com/site/news/General/301526/GTA-set-to-organize-National-Chocolate-Week-2024
3. Visit Ghana – https://visitghana.com/gta-and-cocobod-launch-2024-national-chocolate-week-celebrations/
4. My republic online – https://myrepubliconline.com/2024-national-chocolate-week-launched/
5. BFT – https://thebftonline.com/2024/01/11/chocolate-week-fosters-sense-of-national-pride-unity-cocobod/

About National Chocolate Week

The National Chocolate Week Celebration begun in 2021 as part of the renewed marketing and promotion collaboration amongst stakeholders to expand the scope of the Chocolate Day celebration. Since then, the Chocolate Day celebration which was instituted in 2005 became the Chocolate Week with a new logo and expanded activities. The Ministry of Tourism instituted the Chocolate day to coincide with Valentine’s Day which falls on 14th February every year, to boost the domestic consumption of Ghanaian chocolate and other cocoa-based products. Over the years, the celebration has been held under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture.

The annual week-long celebration has been a partnership between the Ghana Tourism Authority, Ghana Cocoa Board and the Cocoa Processing Company and other Chocolatiers.