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Tourism in Africa is on the rise
The total number of travellers who visited South Africa through allits ports of entry during November 2008 was up 1.1% year-on-year (y/y)to 2.207m from the 2.182m recorded in November 2007, according toStatistics South Africa (Stats SA) data issued on Tuesday.
A month-on-month decrease of 2.8% was recorded from October.
The number of foreign travellers who departed from South Africa inNovember was 748,487, an increase of 4.6% from the 715,801 recorded inNovember 2007.
The number of foreign arrivals was up 2.8% y/y to 827,605, from 805,400 in November 2007.
A total of 315 437 South African residents departed from South Africain November 2008, a decrease of 7.1% from the 339 473 recorded inNovember last year. The number of South African residents arrivingdecreased by 1.9% y/y to 315 629 from 321 643 in November 2007.
Stats SA data shows that slightly less than three-quarters (74.6%) of foreign arrivals were from Africa, while almost a quarter (24.6%) were from overseas countries.
The number of overseas arrivals declined by 12.0% from 231 585 inNovember 2007 to 203 702 in November 2008. Arrivals from Africaincreased by 8.7% from 568 308 in November 2007 to 617 695 in November2008.
Overseas travellers came mainly from Europe (70.3%) followed by NorthAmerica (12.4%), Asia (9.0%), Australasia (4.4%), Central and SouthAmerica (2.5%) and the Middle East (1.3%). Virtually all arrivals(97.5%) from Africa came from the SADC countries.
SOURCE: News24
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