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Citizens of Ghana, Sao Tome and Principe, New Zealand, Cuba, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia no longer require visas to visit South Africa.

JOHANNESBURG,  2 JULY 2019 – The Southern African Tourism Services Association (SATSA) and South Africa Tourism (SA Tourism) are launching a carbon offsetting initiative to create awareness about the need to reduce the SA Tourism industry’s carbon footprint.

The Southern African Tourism Services Association (SATSA) and South African Tourism (SA Tourism) are ensuring that there will be a strong focus on, and participation by emerging businesses at this year’s SATSA Conference.

A new non-stop flight between North America and South Africa, will commence on 15 December 2019, serviced by United Airlines on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.

South African Tourism is intensifying its efforts in growing arrivals from the Nordic region and is inviting South African tourism business owners to partner with them on this mission.

It is just one year to go until Cape Town welcomes over 10 000 delegates from 110 countries to the 37th World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC). Taking place between 26-29 June 2020 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (ICC), it will be the first time WOC is taking place in Sub-Saharan Africa. The WOC 2020 theme will be “all eyes on Africa”.

The period from January to April 2019, showed exceptional growth on the domestic tourism front when compared to the same period last year.

SA Tourism welcomes new Tourism Minister

South African Tourism has received the honor of winning two individual awards at this year’s ITB China 2019, a three-day B2B travel exhibition exclusively focused on the Outbound Chinese Travel Market which took place on 15 to 17 May at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center.

It was a remarkable night for South Africa and Africa as North West University student, Emile Coetzee, was crowned the winner of Future Leaders Forum at the World Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings and Events (IMEX) in Frankfurt, Germany.

IMEX Frankfurt, will see over 3 500 products in the exhibition halls, and around 5 100 buyers will walk the floors in search of great deals and unique products.

A strong contingent of South African business events, conferencing and meetings products will be on display for the next three days at one of the world’s premier Meetings, Incentives, Conference and Events (MICE) exhibition shows, IMEX Frankfurt.