‘We are ready for tourist influx’ – KZN Tourism
KwaZulu Natal is set to welcome 760 000 domestic visitors and 58 000 international tourists over the high season, netting total spend of R4.1 billion.
Speaking at a media roundtable in Johannesburg on Tuesday, December 7, Acting CEO of Tourism KZN, Nhlanhla Khumalo, said the projected tourist spend – based on information collected from tourism providers’ forward bookings – was at just under 50% of the R8,4bn collected by the province in the 2019 high season.
The province and its tourism sector are recovering from the triple whammy of COVID, the June 2021 riots and devastating floods in April this year. Khumalo said the province’s recovery strategy had been based on providing tourism relief funds to affected businesses and aggressively marketing KZN in South Africa and abroad.
Source: Travel News