"Business as usual" is over in South Africa's events industry – it's time to get serious about transformation and to give more small businesses more access to this multibillion-rand sector, Sthembiso Dlamini, CEO of Gauteng Tourism and a former acting CEO of SA Tourism, said on Friday.
"How many conference organisers are black?" Dlamini asked, adding that an incubation programme was in the works to equip more people to enter the events industry.Meetings Africa is an annual gathering of the continent's stakeholders in the meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions sector. This year, its 17The aim is to enable more businesses that cannot necessarily afford to build and set up a stand to take part and have meetings with buyers.
_Business Tourism is dead and forever destroyed in this 3rd world South African shithole!