Tourism body in stokvel tie-up
South African Tourism teams up with the National Stokvel Association to make domestic travel more accessible to millions of SA’s stokvel members
South African Tourism has entered into a partnership with the National Stokvel Association of SA (Nasasa) to boost domestic leisure travel and make it more accessible to the country’s millions of stokvel members. Recent studies show there are more than 11.4-million individual stokvel members belonging to more than 811,000 groups. Collectively, stokvels are said to save R44bn per year. South African Tourism says it will soon be interacting with key stokvel leaders in the hope of encouraging their members to invest in domestic travel. "Domestic tourism is very critical for the economy and GDP … but we are facing difficult economic times and the perception is that travelling locally is expensive… "We hope the partnership with the stokvel association will help," Debbie Damant, country manager for South African Tourism, said on Monday.
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