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[LISTEN] 'Every government department needs to look at tourism as a catalyst for job creation, making it easier for tourism to create jobs,' - fedhasaRSA chair Rosemary Anderson on MoneywebNow with SimonPB. Download the podcast below. Moneyweb
SIMON BROWN: I’m chatting now with Rosemary Anderson, national chairperson of Fedhasa. Fedhasa, of course, is the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa. Rosemary, I appreciate the early morning time. The festive season – there are some lucky souls, I guess, still on holiday. Most of us are back at our jobs, back at our desks. Any sense from you folks on how busy the holiday season was?
Everything is in context. We’ve got to look at where we were before. This time last year we were obviously branded for having a particular variant which no one knew at the time. So in comparison it was really, really good. SIMON BROWN: That’s the key point. I’ve family in Europe. Whenever they come out to South Africa it’s beautiful. There is no doubt on that. What blows them away every single time with their euros or their pounds or their dollars is that it’s incredibly cheap. This is a sector [that] I almost get the sense we enjoy the benefits of, but we could really get a lot more out of it.
A good comparison would be Australia, for example. The Chinese market was the biggest international travel market pre-Covid. For example, for the Chinese market – if you look on the website – the Australian authorities put ‘From the comfort of your home, you can apply for this visa’. They take a couple of minutes, and then they indicate [the visa will] take about 48 hours to be processed.
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