Survey confirms that Department has wrong approach to Tourism
10 May 2020
The results of a survey conducted for the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) in collaboration with the Tourism Department and the International Finance Corporation released this week shows that the tourism sector has been severely negatively affected by Covid-19 and the measures taken to reduce the spread of it.
Of the respondents that participated in this survey, 99% of them have been affected by the pandemic.
The survey found that due to the lockdown the supply and demand sides of tourism have been obliterated. This means that there have already been substantial job losses in the sector, with the TBCSA indicating more than 160 000 job losses. While in February 79% of tourism-related businesses felt neutral or positive about their business and tourism in South Africa, the April figure had shifted to 78% that now felt negative about the future. There is no doubt that this impact will be felt in the foreseeable future.
The survey further indicates that;