The sector presented a growth strategy, setting a target to attract 21-million visitors by 2030, with September being Tourism month. Tourism is one of the sectors that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the most, with more than 400-thousand job losses.
Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, Chief Executive Officer at the Tourism Business Council of South Africa says, the impact of the pandemic is estimated to have cost the sector R54,2billion in revenue between mid-March 2020 and the end of May 2021. “We do know that many people lost their jobs, about 400 thousand. But we are recovering fast and many people are coming back to work. According to the world travel council, last 20 thousand people came back to work and this year it will be even more. In terms of the devastation, its a lot of money that we lost. We used to contribute about 6 percent to GDP, we lost half. We are rebuilding”
“The whole industry, regardless of what sector you come in with tourism shared similar points with government in terms of the constraints and problems in the industry that can be freed up if government does certain things. Government has undertaken to receive the list of problems we have that inhibits growth and job creation. It’s red tape and legislation when departments don’t do what they should be doing.
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