🔒 Boardroom Talk – Need a boost? Catch up with someone in the tourism sector
So yesterday I found myself moderating a few panels at a tourism indaba organised by the Overstrand Municipality. And was pleased I did.
So yesterday I found myself moderating a few panels at a tourism indaba organised by the Overstrand Municipality. And was pleased I did.
The week-long walkout by as many as 300,000 members and allies of NUMSA is likely to lead to job cuts, further hammering the industry.
The UK eased entry rules for South Africa and 47 countries, in the latest step to shed travel curbs and revive tourism-dependent businesses.Â
South Africa was among the beneficiaries when the British government yesterday slashed its Covid red list from 54 to 7 countries.
Paul Gardiner discusses the potential removal of SA from the UK’s red list. “We would generate 2.6m tourists annually. Almost 450 000 are British.”
Following extensive discussions with SA businesses and the government, the UK has finally agreed to remove SA from its controversial red list.
Lord Peter Hain wrote a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to protest against the UK government’s failure to remove South Africa from the red list.
The UK is set to review their ‘red list’, which South Africa has been on since December 2020 – and there is optimism that the gates could be opened soon.
This is “a reminder of SA being blessed by its people, but cursed by its (poverty mentality) leaders,” writes BizNews founder Alec Hogg.
Covid-19 has dealt a colossal wallop to the SA tourism industry, with businesses and people suffering immensely. These charts show the consequences.