Municipality launches tourism month

The executive mayor, Gaba Ka Qhele, members of the mayoral committee, councillors and municipal officials launched this year’s Tourism Month at the Dan Tloome Council Chambers garden on Tuesday, 13 September, under the theme of ‘Rethinking Tourism’.
Tourism Month is celebrated every September, and South Africans are encouraged to travel domestically to sustain jobs and support tourism recovery in line with the Tourism Sector Recovery Plan.
The tourism department developed the Tourism Sector Recovery Plan with the tourism sector. It contains a set of interventions to protect and rejuvenate supply, reignite demand and strengthen an enabling capability to support the sector’s recovery.
The month also provides a heightened month-long focus on the sector’s importance to South Africa’s economy.
It features themed activities aligned with the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) celebrations of World Tourism Day.