Antois-Leigh Nepgen | Oct 14, 2024
The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) mourns the loss of Tito Mboweni, who served as Chairman of the TBCSA Board for two years, beginning in 2016. Mboweni played a key role in amplifying the voice of the private sector tourism...
Shanna Jacobsen | Sep 20, 2023
The second Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) Leadership Conference was held at Sun City from 6-8 September 2023, under the theme “Tourism – The Engine of Growth”. One of the questions tackled was: How do we make Tourism matter? South...
Shanna Jacobsen | Sep 13, 2023
The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) hosted its second Leadership Conference at Sun City from 6-8 September 2023, which saw stakeholders from the public and private sectors come together, as well as dignitaries, guests, and...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 30, 2023
In a statement released to the media yesterday, Minister Patricia de Lille shared an update on the progress made so far by the National Tourism Safety Forum (NTSF). The NTSF is a private-public partnership, bringing together all Tourism MECs, the...
Shanna Jacobsen | Oct 4, 2022
According to the 2021 Travel and Tourism Development Index, which the World Economic Forum released in May 2022, South Africa’s ranks 112/117 in Safety and Security globally. This dismal scoring is damaging to South Africa’s society at large, while...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 4, 2022
The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) welcomes all industry professionals to our inaugural conference where stakeholders across the tourism value chain will examine, discuss and come up with solutions to some of the challenges facing...
Shanna Jacobsen | Dec 4, 2021
During a time when popular destinations are ramping up to receive an influx of visitors, travel bans against several African countries will mean these nations will miss out on much-needed tourism spend. Following the detection and reporting of the...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 29, 2021
In a webinar held on 27 July 2021, the Tourism Business Council of South Africa hosted an information session to address the challenges experienced by the business events and hospitality sectors in accessing Unemployment Insurance Fund and...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 23, 2021
Noting the devastating impact on the travel and tourism sector, the TBCSA has issued a call to the government to ease lockdown restrictions. After facing a difficult path in its recovery, the travel, tourism, and hospitality sectors were dealt a...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 4, 2021
SA Tourism and the TBCSA have come together to launch the Tourism Advocacy Programme, a global PR communications initiative that will form part of the ‘Tourism Road To Recovery Plan’. In a statement made last week, SA Tourism and the Tourism...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 26, 2021
With applications for Phase 2 now open, the UIF is working to ensure it can pay out benefits for TERS applicants as swiftly as possible. At the start of South Africa’s lockdown just over a year ago, it was announced that the country’s Unemployment...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 26, 2021
It is common knowledge that the full tourism value chain has been badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, but seeing this impact in numbers in a recently released TBCSA report is grim. Prior to the second wave, in October 2020, an International...
