The aggression of the police reaction to the recent peaceful tourism demonstrations, which were protesting the impact of lockdown regulations on the sector, garnered a huge amount of exposure for the travel and tourism industry’s cause.
Less than a week later, Minister of Tourism Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, offered the travel and tourism sector a few small concessions including the reopening of intra-provincial leisure travel. Ceo of Private Safaris, Monika Iuel, provides Travel News journalist Sarah Robertson with an eyewitness account of the Cape Town demonstrations and discusses the next steps for the industry.
