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The JB Marks Local Municipality in the North West province will launch Tourism Month on Tuesday 13 August 2022.
The municipality’s acting Communications Manager, Jeanette Tshite, says in a statement that members of the Mayoral Committee, councillors and officials of the municipality will be led by their Executive Mayor, Gaba Thithiba Ka Qhele, in this event.
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Tshite further explains that the 2022 theme for this annual event will be “Rethinking Tourism”, and the importance of this month-long celebration is to heighten focus on the importance of the Tourism sector to the South African economy.
She says the activities are aligned with the World Tourism Day celebrations of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
“The Department of Tourism did develop the Tourism Sector Recovery Plan with the tourism sector. It contains a set of interventions to protect and rejuvenate supply, reignite demand and strengthen an enabling capability to support the sector’s recovery,” says Tshite.
Tourism Month encourages South Africans to travel domestically in order to sustain jobs and support the recovery of tourism in line with the Tourism Sector Recovery Plan.
