Indaba 2023: African Tourism Bounces Back After Covid-19
It’s barely one week after the World Health Organisation downgraded the Covid-19 pandemic, saying it’s no longer a global health emergency, but apparently, Africa’s travel business has already recovered to near pre-pandemic levels,. In some cases, the numbers are back to normal.
This was one of the revelations at Africa’s Travel Indaba taking place in Durban from May 9-11.
Attendance at Indaba has been impressive, with more than 6,000 delegates, including 1,000 international buyers and 1,000 exhibitors showcasing 350 products.
Indaba boasts exhibitors from 21 African countries, including 10 tourism boards.
And according to South Africa’s Minister of Tourism Patricia De Lille during her keynote address at Indaba,, the future looks bright; “We have, collectively, weathered the COVID-19 hurricane and it should only propel us to exceed our targets.”
She said that for South Africa, there has been “encouraging growth in our tourist arrival numbers between January and December 2022, where it reached nearly 5.8 million with over 4 million of those arrivals from African countries.”
Source: Arise News