The Covid-19 pandemic successfully referred to as a worldwide ‘time-out’ on tourism and has offered a singular alternative to place in place measures that would create an optimum journey and tourism enabling atmosphere that may let the nation each see and really feel the advantages of attaining a tourism excessive highway when it comes to job creation, income and tax era and GDP development.
Paul Bannister and Michael Spicer are administrators of Wesgro, the official tourism, commerce and funding promotion company for Cape City and the Western Cape. They write of their private capacities.
Two years in the past, President Cyril Ramaphosa described tourism as “Africa’s new gold” insofar that it’s the one enterprise sector that has the potential to quickly present employment to semi-skilled and unskilled South Africans in each city and rural areas. Consequently, there was appreciable commentary within the social and conventional media concerning the appointment of Lindiwe Sisulu as minister of tourism within the current Cupboard reshuffle, with many commentators describing it as a “demotion”.
The minister has had a prolonged and assorted political profession and far of the media protection has been lower than optimistic, however what if Sisulu was to know the chance to re-ignite South Africa’s tourism potential…