JOHANNESBURG - World Tourism Day will be marked at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on Saturday.
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A time to reflect on how to capitalise on South Africa’s tourist treasures.
Tourism numbers have rebounded after plunging during the Covid-19 pandemic.
For the first six months of the year South Africa welcomed 5.8 million international tourists – a 14% increase on the same time last year.
That’s still short of the peak in 2019 before Covid.
The Director General of the Department of Tourism, Nkhumeleni Victor Vele discussed this with eNCA.