Taking place at Msunduzi Tourism Hub on Tuesday, 01 September 2020, this event was opened by Msunduzi Municipality Mayor, Cllr Mzi Thebola
The tourism month (September) activation usually it takes the form of announcing the tourism month events and activities but owing to Covid19 pandemic the focus will be on reflection and implementation of Local Tourism Recovery Plan
It is important to acknowledge the role that the media played at a crucial time when we needed to communicate with the tourism sector trade and the public in general about the pandemic and business support mitigations.
We note that Covid19 pandemic is not a crisis that can go to waste in that it amplified a lot issues in particular serious lack of transformation in the sector.
Other issues highlighted by the pandemic were poor tourism investments levels (budgets) and poor intergovernmental co operations to support tourism (notwithstanding existence of inter governmental framework act of 2005)