Tourism relief fund must be increased and extended, OECD says
The international policy organisation also said SMEs in the sector should be protected, and more done at a local level to improve tourism growth
31 July 2020 - 12:44
A leading international policy-formulation organisation has recommended that the government increase the amount of the Covid-19 tourism relief fund and extend it until mid-2021 to support the recovery of the sector.
This would be particularly important if there were a renewed outbreak of Covid-19 later in the year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a section devoted to the tourism sector in its 2020 economic survey of SA released on Friday...
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