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Myanmar will introduce an electronic visa application system next month to facilitate visits to the once isolated state, says news reports.
A better year may be in the offing for the local tourism industry, but industry players warn that it's too soon to celebrate a turnaround.
No fewer than 3.7m tourists passed through South African airports and border posts last month, 2% more than in December 2010.
Lindiwe Kwele, CEO of the Johannesburg Tourism Company has resigned to take up a post at the City of Tshwane.
Cape Town International Airport is accelerating festive season plans ahead of the busy summer season, according to the Airports Company South Africa.
South Africa saw a 23% rise in spending by international travellers using their Visa cards, a report says.
The mothballed Grace hotel has been sold by Hyprop for R85m.
The CEO and five board members of the debt-ridden Mpumalanga tourism agency have resigned.
As the continent's tourism growth outpaces that of developed countries, global hotel chains are poised to spend hundreds of millions on new facilities.
Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk says SA plans to attract more business meetings and conferences to grow visitor numbers to 18 million by 2020.
The Tourism Business Council says the ANC's plan to create more jobs in the sector is possible if more effort is made to grow the market.
Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk says about 309 000 visitors came to SA for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
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The tourism ministry and Tourism Business Council of SA will conduct a survey on the state of transformation in the tourism industry, says the department.
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