The first round of G20 meetings kicks off today and SA will be holding its collective breath that the logistics go smoothly, and that the many high-level visitors who come to our shores during the year of meetings have a good experience of SA.
Hosting the G20 is a huge opportunity for SA to market itself as a tourism and investment destination, as well as to position itself on the world stage as the genuinely nonaligned African leader that it claims to be. Messing up the logistics could not only risk keeping some of the G20 delegates away, it would risk demarketing SA as a tourism destination and keeping other potential visitors away...
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