First, here’s a little more doom and gloom: the department of tourism’s latest quarterly performance report shows that total tourism arrivals into SA dropped by 3% year on year for January to March 2019, against 2018. Total accommodation income dropped by 1.2% during this quarter too.

But hotels did relatively well: they showed no percentage change, despite forming 66% of SA’s accommodation sector...

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