“When you look at funding in South Africa, for the past 26 years, funding for tourism in South Africa has been skewed. It has been favouring big cities which is your Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and Pretoria,” he added.
“That is why we must work hard in this Legislative Tourism Oversight Forum which will help us make sure we have presence in every village, in every small town and every township throughout South Africa.”Where tourism potential was not fully exploited, opportunities for job creation and the economic development of rural areas were missed.
Mahumapelo gave his provincial counterparts a deadline to submit a list of all villages, informal settlements and townships that exist within the country and potential tourism for each.