Crunch time for Cape Town’s half-empty hotels
Some Cape Town hotels face permanent closure unless the government lifts its travel ban on key international tourist markets
11 November 2020 - 06:00
SA’s hospitality industry, which has lost about R100bn in tourism spend since the lockdown was imposed in March, is waiting anxiously to see if the department of home affairs will heed calls to scrap its “red list” of 22 countries whose citizens are banned from travelling to SA.
The list, which includes eight of SA’s top 10 international tourism markets — including the UK, US and Germany — is expected to be updated some time this month...
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