Attractive Accra?

As Chinese New Year is fast approaching, tens of thousands of well-doing Chinese will be hitting the road near and far. The Spring Festival is one of the biggest and busiest travel season in China, ranked only next to Golden Week (May Day) and National Day (October First). A year or so ago, the Chinese government suspended the week-long May Day holiday scheme, now the Chunjie holiday period, usually two weeks off for most of people, is increasingly gaining popularity among urban middle-class Chinese.

To appear to the Chinese travelers and attract tourism dollars, Ghana grants visa waives to Chinese tourists and became one of handful countries to do so. The result has been mixed, there are certainly more Chinese tourists walking around capitol Accra streets, usually easily spotted by walking together and uniformly money belts around their waists.

How does Chinese media portrait Ghana to its readers? Here is an article picked by biggest news portal, Sina, which cited a Lonely Planet's Cities You Really Hate ranking. Accra is among the nine unattractive cities in the world for tourists. Ranked second, Accra is only next to Detroit of the U.S. and above Seoul of South Korea.

The article says Accra lacks any beach city charms:
第2名是西非加纳首都阿克拉(Accra)，ugly(丑陋), chaotic(混乱), sprawling(杂乱无序)，毫无海滨城市特色。