‘Revenge travel’ drives SA tourism sector growth
Removal of the travel ban saw a flood of domestic visits in the six months to end-June, while the number of forward bookings indicates pent-up demand from international visitors
01 September 2022 - 15:49
UPDATED 01 September 2022 - 20:11
Domestic trips more than doubled in the first half of 2022, exceeding prepandemic levels as the end of lockdown restrictions led to a surge in travel after two years of Covid-19-induced restrictions.
South Africans undertook 15.2-million domestic trips in the first half of 2022, exceeding the 7.1-million trips in the same period in 2021...
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