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Officials of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in Ghana last Thursday embarked on a day�s fact finding tour of the Keta Municipality in the Volta region. The delegation was invited by the business group from the area. The group wanted to take advantage of the expertise of Spain in the tourism and housing industries to develop the municipality. The delegation, led by Jorge Avila, the Commercial Attach� of the Embassy, visited some of the beautiful beaches near the Volta estuary, the Lorne Beach Resort with their golden sands, Keta fort, the proposed harbor site and other places of interest. As custom demands, the delegation paid a courtesy call on the Awoamefia of the Anlo Traditional area, Togbi Sri III, who urged the delegation to sell other economic potentials like the billion dollar salt industry, vegetable and the aqua-culture industries to the Spanish investors. He asked Avila to help get some Spanish industrialists to set up canning factories to address the tomato glut in the area. On his part, Mr. Avila was grateful to the Awoamefia for granting them audience and promised to bring more Spanish investors to the area. Later, the delegation met the Member of Parliament (MP) for Anlo, Hon. Kofi Humado, who is also the Minister of Youth and Sports and the Economic Committee of the Keta Municipal Assembly. The Awoamefia directed Dumega Raymond Okudzeto of Volta Foundation and an elder statesman of the area who sent delegations, led by Togbi Samlafo III to European countries, to send another team to Spain immediately. The mandate of the group is to invite investors in the tourism sector to this year�s Hogbetsotso festival of the Anlos to be held in the first week of November, this year. According to Mr. Kofi Asante, who doubles as co-coordinating officer of the foundation, the delegation would also be in touch with indigenes of the Volta region to educate them about the investment prospects to enable them collaborate with their Spanish counterparts for factories to be established in the area.