SA tourism rising steadily, but not out of the woods yet
In December, the country saw almost one million foreign arrivals with over 2.8 million travellers passing through the country’s ports of entry. This included 965 599 South African residents and 1.9 million foreign travellers.South Africa received the highest number of visitors from the UK , USA , Germany , the Netherlands and Australia .
Although the number of arrivals is 179% higher than in 2021, it is still around 30% shy of the 2019 travel figures. Stehlik said that domestic airlines should see an increase in capacity with more airlines coming online, stabilising prices which shot up last year. Most of our neighbours from the SADC region chose to travel by road, 432 240 , while 44 053 came by air and just 639 arrived by sea.
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