RAZINA MUNSHI: Tourism sector carnage: humans and animals will suffer
A drive to increase domestic tourism may just be one of the best ways to revive this important sector of SA’s economy
22 September 2020 - 06:00
In December 2019, Warren Buffett sold his company’s interests in four airlines. In doing so, he avoided the avalanche that hit the tourism industry two months later.
Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) had “no such brilliance”, says CEO Johnny Copelyn. The investment group, whose main assets are hotels and casinos, has been “lambasted by the Covid-19 tsunami” and is forced to give up the gains it has made in the past 15 years, Copelyn says in its annual report published last week...
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