Interventions and enablers listed in the Tourism Sector Restoration Plan will facilitate the maintenance of R189 billion in value and help the sector recover.

“In addition, the sector is positioned for long-term sustainable growth,” said Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane at a press conference on Thursday.

The minister unpacked the tourism sector recovery plan and said the plan was the tourism industry’s collective response to the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in that sector.

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The minister noted that the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the sector into an unprecedented crisis both locally and globally as the sector continues to shed jobs, with tourism companies in need and small and medium-sized businesses hardest hit. Many face the possibility of permanent closure.

The Ministry of Tourism worked with industry to develop the plan, which set out a number of measures to kick-start the sector’s recovery and put it on the path to long-term sustainability.

“The tourism sector recovery plan includes a number of measures to protect and rejuvenate supply, revive demand and strengthen the ability to support the sector’s recovery. The aim is to preserve jobs and livelihoods within the sector, to facilitate the creation of new employment opportunities, to balance supply and demand and to strengthen the transformation of the sector, including the empowerment of women, young people and people with disabilities in this sector ” said Kubayi-Ngubane.

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The minister said the plan also identifies specific enablers as well as related activities, their implementation timeframes and lines of responsibility, and its successful implementation will depend in part on a number of enablers beyond the department’s immediate mandate for the tourism industry in general .

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