EDITORIAL: To fix tourism, ditch spin and vaccinate
What will restore confidence to both tourists and airlines is if we can show we’re managing the pandemic well
08 April 2021 - 05:00
It seems the government has finally woken up to the collapse of SA’s tourism sector and even, encouragingly, has a grand plan to "revive" it. For a part of our economy with such an obvious natural advantage (game parks, beaches, Table Mountain, Maropeng and the Cradle of Humankind), and economic advantage (a weak rand that gives foreigners fantastic buying power), it should never have got to this.
But our politicians, the very ones now speaking of renewal, botched the biggest challenge they’ll face in their careers: managing Covid...
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