The data shows that some forms of travel are simply not coming back.
Statistics South Africa’s preliminary monthly tourism statistics show the hotel sector is still battling to fully recover from the harsh Covid-19-related lockdown shock back in 2020, with year-on-year growth still strong but slowing.
These issues have been compounded by the demise of Comair, which has restricted the availability of air travel in recent weeks, and may be having a negative impact on air travel and thus on hotel demand too. “Secondly, we have argued for a while that business travel not only battles from similar financial constraints following the 2020 recession impact on businesses, but the Business Sector has also successfully ‘Zoomified’ much of its interaction during forced lockdowns. ”
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