LETTER: Dangerous to shift focus in tourism to transformation
At such a difficult time the priority should be to maintain what has worked and re-establish the growth momentum
Who would deny Fatgiyah Bardien’s statement that the SA tourism sector needs all the help it can get? (“Let’s accept transformation in tourism has to take place (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2021-05-13-lets-accept-transformation-in-tourism-has-to-take-place/)”, May 13). She argues that the Tourism Equity Fund (TEF), launched four months ago, is a vehicle to achieve this as it aims to transform the industry by providing black-owned tourism projects with financial backing.
Bardien works from the premise that “the tourism industry does need to be transformed”. Yet before Covid-19 the industry was a success story of expansion, opportunity, increasing inclusion and profitability. What then needs to be transformed? ..
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