The hospitality industry association says Home Affairs fails to recognise the importance of tourism in job creation and economic growth, which is why it keeps scoring own goals by actively discouraging tourists, especially from the world’s two biggest and fastest growing outbound markets India and China — our original BRICS partners.
The reputational damage is done, Anderson says and it will take years to undo the harm, much like the unabridged birth certificate fiasco, which tour operators and airlines are still complaining about — 10 years after carrying the certificates became mandatory for parents travelling from abroad with minor children and five years since it was scrapped in October 2019 by Motsoaledi.
South Africa requires tourists from China to present themselves in person to visa offices, unlike in Australia, where they can apply for an e-visa and receive it within 48 hours. Because the country is so vast, many Chinese tourists don’t bother to apply — so they visit more tourist-friendly countries like Australia.
Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)
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