Over half of Tourism Update readers (61%) have indicated that they had not encountered bribery and corruption in their daily business operations.
However, a third (33%) said they had. The remaining 7% were ‘unsure’.
This was in response to a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants that showed deep concerns about the damaging impact of bribery and corruption on SMEs, with 66% of SMEs in Africa and their advisers believing that standing up to bribery and corruption would cost them business opportunities. This is high compared with the global figure of 59%.
Planning to leverage avitourism?
The global birdwatching tourism market is currently valued at around US$659.4 billion and is predicted to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 5.3%, reaching a value of $1.1 trillion by 2034, according to a report by Future Market Insights.
Given that avitourism around the world, and locally, has grown exponentially, the value of the industry in South Africa today is well over R2 billion (€97m) annually, according to BirdLife South Africa.
“Getting tourism services operators aware of the avitourism assets in the area and how they can enrich the experience of tourists through birds is vital, and has a huge potential for growth,” Andrew de Blocq, former Avitourism project manager at BirdLife South Africa, told Tourism Update.
Tourism Update would like to know whether your business is planning on leveraging or including birding tourism into your offerings.
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