Huge job creation potential in tourism and hospitality
Stats SA released figures this week on the international arrivals to SA for the period November 2020 to November 2021 with Stats SA reporting a 172,7% increase in tourist arrivals […]
Responsible tourism rockstars invited to enter WTM Responsible Tourism Awards
Africa Travel Week (ATW) is calling on responsible tourism businesses to submit their applications for the WTM Responsible Tourism Awards 2022 by 28 February. “With just a few weeks to […]
Africa Travel Week calls on African Tourism Community to ‘Walk for Love’
Africa Travel Week (ATW) is rallying stakeholders across the African tourism value chain to come together by participating in Walk for Love 2022, a virtual walk to be held on […]
New rules planned for foreign workers in South Africa
Following our update last week on the employment of Foreign Nationals, please see the link below to a recent article published by BusinessTech on the new rules planned for foreign […]
Census 2022 data collection
Census 2022 will be conducted from 03 to 28 February 2022. Given the enormous task, the Department of Tourism in partnership with Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) would like to […]
Pending Legislation regarding employing foreign nationals
Currently there is no foreign national quota system in our legislation regarding our hospitality industry. However there are two draft statutes Government is current looking at that provide, one way or another, for […]
FEDHASA welcomes review of national state of disaster
FEDHASA, the voice of hospitality in South Africa, has welcomed the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that the National Coronavirus Command Council is reconsidering whether to uphold the current National […]
Western Cape on 27% recovery in international trips for December 2021
The Western Cape Government is concerned with the decline in international passenger numbers recorded at Cape Town International Airport since December 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic began. While domestic tourism […]
Employment of foreign nationals – Know your rights
There have been many reports in the media in the past week highlighting planned ‘visits’ to the hospitality industry to assess how many foreign nationals the sector employs in South […]
Webinar invitation: The Importance of visuals in travel marketing
Wetu Tourism Solutions will host a webinar on 27 January 2022 at 16h00, on the Importance of visuals in travel marketing. If you would like to register for the webinar, […]
