vision

The essence of Helgard Travel and Tours is redefining tourism and vehicle rental. Bringing comfort and ease in travelling arraignments and everything else that goes with it. This is achieved trough a great customer relationship and offering the best the West African sub region has to offer.

mission

Helgard Travel and Tours is an evolving company that seeks to provide innovative, tailor made and adorable tour programs within the region.

Our group is bent on changing the face of our travel and tour market by diligently and steadfastly gearing in the direction of transforming the industry locally.

We build good and healthy friendly relationships with our clients.

objectives

SHORT TERM

To become one of the best ticketing and tour service providers in Ghana.

To promote domestic Tourism in Ghana.

To provide the needs of corporate bodies, enterprises and individuals in the areas of ticket acquisition and vehicle rentals without hassle.

To become the best in providing prompt solutions for travelling needs.

LONG TERM

To be known globally as an excellent travel, tour and vehicle rental service provider.

about our company

LICENCE

Our travel Agency is registered under the Laws of the republic of Ghana and is fully licensed with the Ghana Tourist Board.

SERVICES

As part of or commitment to make our clients comfortable, giving out all options and choices Helgard uses one of the world’s most acclaimed computerised reservations system (Galileo ). We sell on all major airlines in Ghana. Our very well trained staff will help you make the best of choices and give you friendly guidance.

DOMESTIC FLIGHTS

For domestic flights from and to Accra, Kumasi, Sunyani and Tamale, our office will do your reservations and when tickets are bought, can be sent to your door step whereever you are in Ghana.

KIA PROTOCOL

At the Kotoka International Airport (Accra ), our protocol officer will be available to help you check in and out of the airport and other formalities to make sure that your travel becomes a hassle free one.

LOST DALAYED BAGGAGE

In the case of loss or delay in arrival of unaccompanied baggage, all you need to do is to give adequate information about your baggage and allow us to find it. Promptly we will call to ask you to pick up your baggage.

Clients are advised not to exceed the required maximum luggage weight as thisis one of the main reasons that cause baggage delays.

PTA

For flights originating from other parts of the world, eg someone leaving London to Accra, can pick his/her ticket from the airline in London and have the payment made in Accra or vice versa.

FLY NOW PAY LATER

In collaboration with first allied savings and loans, Helgard offers one of the most selling products in this business (travel finance ). This product allows one to travel, finish with their business and pay back in three monthly instalments. All you need to do is talk to our credit officer at the front desk office and your ticket loan will be approved within 48 working hours.

CAR RENTAL

A member of crag (car rental association of Ghana), we stand tall and this category with the most innovative / creative service combining the solution for vehicle acquisition for both residents and visitors in this country and beyond. Our well trained, cultured, neat and well mannered drivers will safely take you anywhere you would want to go in Ghana or in the West African sub region.

They are trained to drive you as tourist and also to drive in convoy for dignitaries. They are smart and well looking.

All our vehicles are in very good world class conditions and are also all air-conditioned.

Our growing fleet of vehicle comprises:

helgard travel and tours welcomes you to ghana

CCRA CITY TOUR

2 Days
Tour Name:Gateway Tour

We drive through the main streets of the city to the national museum where we have a look at contemporary African art and colonial antiques .we then go in to visit the kwame Nkrumah mausoleum, a park and a museum in honour of the first president of Ghana. Next, we visit the makola market environment.

From Accra we move on to winneba, a very breezy town. We visit its old fishing harbor, watch the fisherman mend their broken nets and see how they land their catch. On our way back we pass through kokrobite to see its academy of African music and arts which is under a Ghanaian / German management. An afternoon of drumming and dancing at sea side (wonderful view) by a resident drama troupe can be arranged

TOUR OF ABURI BOTANICAL GARDENS

1 Day
Tour Name:Aburi

Aburi, on the Akwapem Mountains is a small town about 40km north of the capital, Accra. it has a very big , rich & beautiful botanical garden founded in 1890 by the British colonial clerks as an agricultural research station , in it are two cozy restaurants . on our way back we visit abokobi’s wonderful and historic settlement of the Basel ( Swiss) missionaries in the gold coast era in the 1850’s. we will visit the first cocoa plantation in Ghana made by Tetteh Quashie in 1879. Then we’ll visit the house in which he lived.

TOUR TO AKOSOMBO DAM

1 Day
Tour Name: Power Tour

Akosombo is situated at the North East of Accra. Ghana has a 400km long lake called Volta, which is one of the largest manmade lakes in the world. it covers an area of about 8500km the lake was created as a result of the need to construct a hydro –electric Dam which was built in the 1960’s. There is a three hour- afternoon cruise with a lot of music and dancing to the Dodi Island on Volta Lake

TOUR TO KUMASI

2days
Tour Name: Traditional / Culture

We drive trough the popular garden city of Ghana to the central market, the largest traditional market in west Africa, and continue to the national cultural and crafts center .we will also visit the prempeh II museum. On the grounds of the okomfo anokye teaching hospital is a sword which was planted in the ground by Okomfo Anokye, once a powerful fetish priest who lived among the Ashanti people. Ever since this sword was planted in the soil many years back, most people have through various means tried to uproot it but to no avail. There is also a military museum near the central post office which we visit, from there we move on to the Manhyia palace, the official residence of the chief of the Ashanti people (Asantehene). The Ashanti people and their sub – chiefs have been able to preserve the traditional authority in the Asantehene before and even after independence .a few kilometers on the outskirts of Kumasi are Pankrono and Ahwia popularly known for pottery and wood carvings respectively. Bonwire is also know for their best loam woven Kente fabrics in West Africa .as a matter of fact, kente fabrics originated from Ghana ,and Bonwire to be specific.

NORTHERN TOUR

4days
Tour Name: Savannah

We stop over Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo region from Kumasi to see an all year round steep waterfall and continue to tamale in the Northern region of Ghana. From Kintampo, the vegetation changes from the dense forest we have been accustomed to from the Ashanti region. They’re virtually no trees or where there are, they are the very low type. Grass is predominant in the vegetation. At certain times of the year, there is no green vegetation at all. In the North we visit the Mole National Park, the nation’s number one game reserve; where we find most species of animals which otherwise would be extinct due to excessive hunting. Some of the animals include various types of birds, Monkeys, antelopes, elephants, bucks, buffalos, cobs, etc. some of the animals can easily be seen when they come to the watering hole below the hotel either early in the morning or in the evening. Guides are available to take us trough this reserve.

TOUR OF CAPE COAST & ELMINA

2 days
Tour Name: Forts & Castles

Cape coast, the capital town of central region is situated at about 144km west of Accra. Next to it is Elmina. both cape coast and Elmina have one thing in common; castles which have been classified as World Heritage Monuments by UNESCO‘s world Heritage Foundation due to their importance in the slave trade days. The slaves were brought here from various areas in the country to be sold and shipped to north, South America and anywhere their masters would take them. On the way to cape coast from Accra, are several fishing villages with attractive beaches, beautified with coconut trees. The museums and monuments board provide a guide tour of the slave dungeons in the cape coast castle. From cape coast, we continue to fort St Jago at Elmina. This tour in particular reveals the history of the slave trade by the Europeans along the coasts of Africa .the Kakum forest, a typical dense tropical rain forest with herbal plants and trees is also situated at approximately 30km off cape coast .the park authorities can be contacted for a guide tour.

WHERE TO STAY:

There are enough hotels (1 –5 star) and guesthouses all around. At these places European and African food is served .you can arrange for us to pick you up from the airport to your lodging place .you only need to arrange on time. We also do hotel reservations.

additional program host family program

t is all too easy as a tourist in an African country to avoid contact with the people and culture. if on the other hand, you are interested in experiencing another way of life, learning a new language and becoming a part of an African Community,” HOST FAMILY PROGRAM “ gives you the option of staying with a family in a village or town .you will be given a wide choice of volunteer families to stay with , coming from all situations and all parts of Ghana , with its 64 dialects and multiple tribes. You can choose to stay for months with one family, or to travel the country, moving from one culture to another. Families have volunteered to host foreigners in their own homes .you will surely be touched by the hospitality that Ghanaians will give you freely.