Tourism Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, is due to open Africa’s Travel Indaba in Durban on Tuesday. It is the largest tourism expo on the continent.
Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has announced a solidarity relief fund to revive the tourism industry after the recentThe flood disaster in KwaZulu-Natal has left a trail of damage – with the tourism sector also being hit hard.Sisulu who has just returned from an international tourism Indaba in Philippines addressed the media in Durban.
“Bulk of that will be coming from cutting our own budget and Minister of Finance will make use of that in cutting what has been allocated to us to create the Solidarity Fund. So we have clear guidelines in place in which people will claim from the Solidarity Fund. But specifically in relation with tourism, we had relations with COVID – we were allowed by government to create what was called Tourism Recovery Fund.
It has been described as the worst flood disaster in the province’s history and far more severe than the floods of 1987 which left 60 people dead.Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu says her department will assist businesses affected:
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