Dr Edwin Eddie Koranteng, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Koppan Hospitality Travel Limited has been awarded at this year’s edition of the prestigious 40 Under 40 Award.
He was awarded with Excellence in Logistics and supply award.
The Forty under 40 Award is to identify, honour and celebrate a cross-section of the nations most influential and accomplished young business leaders under the age forty from a wide range of industries, who are committed to business growth, professional excellence and community service and have risen up the ranks of their companies or industries at a relatively young age as result of this.
The Awards ceremony which is the third edition was held on 4th October, 2019 at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel, Accra.
Profile of Edwin Eddie Koranteng
Dr Edwin Koranteng studied Travel Agency Management under CTH UK (Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality Management-UK) in Zenith University College 2008 -- 2010.
He worked with Accra Air Travel inside the Golden Tulip Hotel from 2010 – 2013 and in mid 2013 he started Koppan Company Ltd.
He is the CEO of KOPPAN COMPANY LTD, a Limited Liability Company, which was established in June 2013 with three (3) subsidiaries, KOPPAN HOSPITALITY, KOPPAN LOGISTICS and KOPPAN SPORTS AGENCY (A FIFA Intermediary licensed sports agency).
Koppan Hospitality is an award winning travel and tourism company, a wholesaler in the travel industry that specializes in tour packages both inbound and outbound, Airline reservations and ticketing, Hotel reservation, and Car rentals. He led the company to win the best Tour Operator of the year by the GHANA TOURISM AUTHORITY during the Greater Accra Regional Awards 2017.
Koppan Hospitality is the first and only travel company to obtain a General Sales Agent (GSA) for a global B2B travel company, REDAPPLE TRAVEL LLC which has its head office in London with the address SUITE No1, 3rd FLOOR VISTA CENTRE SALISBURY RD, HOUNSLOW TW4 6JQ LONDON, UK (VAT No: GBP 289582537) and other offices in 15 countries.
As a travel wholesaler, Dr Koranteng has trained 17 travel companies in Accra in 2018 and still counting.
In July 2019, he led his team to train 33 travel companies in Kumasi to enable them book hotels and tours tailored to suit their clients in their own offices. In-partnership with the Ghana Tourist Authority, Koppan hospitality was part of the selected travel agencies as exhibitors to support the tourism body to exhibit our motherland Ghana in WTM London 2018 (World Travel Market London) and ITB Berlin in 2019.
He obtained his honorary doctorate degree in 2016 from Commonwealth University Belize and Masters in Business Administration from the London Graduate School.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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