The latest Tourism Update monthly salary poll shows a further rise in the number of people receiving 100% of their pre-COVID salary.

A total of 44% of respondents received their full salary last month – up from 37% in February, and 32% in January.

This shows a continuation in the trend of the local travel trade industry slowly recovering in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on 183 votes received.

However, what remains unchanged is that 28% of respondents still earn below 20% of their salary or are unemployed as a result of COVID-19.

The Head of the National Disaster Management Centre has declared the floods in KwaZulu Natal last week to be a provincial disaster that has so far left at least 443 people and caused billions of rands of damage to critical infrastructure, including roads, homes, buildings, major water pipes and reservoirs.

Many still continued with the Easter holiday plans but Tourism Update understands there were some cancellations. We’d therefore like to know: