Tourism stakeholders have voiced a strong interest in the travel and related services section of South Africa’s new Tourism Professionalisation Strategy, which was presented to industry role-players for input in a series of online engagement sessions last week.
The engagements focused on five areas, namely governance, accommodation, travel and related services, hospitality and education and training. The largest proportion of respondents to our latest poll (36%) selected travel and related services as being of the most relevance to them, followed by education and training (31%). The remainder of the votes were split between hospitality (13%), governance (11%) and accommodation (9%).
What are the barriers to our youth?
This week, the tourism spotlight is turning towards the Africa Youth in Tourism Summit taking place in Swakopmund, Namibia, where the participation of youth in Africa’s tourism sector will take centre-stage.
Many hurdles are standing in the way of youth being active participants in tourism, and we want to hear your opinion on which is the most restrictive.
Our poll question this week is:
