South Africa has won bids to host 53 international conferences and exhibitions over the next five years, which are expected to pump more than R600m into the economy.
Tourism minister Patricia De Lille said the South African National Convention Bureau — an agency of South African Tourism tasked with growing the number of international business events in the country — had invested R14.6m on 81 bid submissions that have an economic value exceeding R975m...
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