De Lille addresses SA Tourism shake-up: ‘Nobody’s indispensable’

De Lille decided to move on the board after Khumalo submitted a memorandum asking her to “terminate” it to avoid further damage to its image over a sexual harassment scandal. The contents of the memorandum — which was also sent to Sisulu on her last day in office — and the furore over the Tottenham deal are understood to have convinced De Lille to dissolve the board and appoint a new one, theAddressing Khumalo’s resignation, De Lille said: “Nobody’s indispensable, by the way — you or me.

Nomasonto Ndlovu was appointed to replace Khumalo as acting chief executive of SA Tourism, which is now chaired by former Wesgro bossNotwithstanding SA Tourism’s governance issues, De Lille is tasked with reviving one of the industries worst-hit by. Covid-related travel restrictions saw the number of non-resident visitors slump from 14.8 million in 2019 to only 3.9 million in 2020.

As a result of the decline in the number of visitors to the country, inbound tourism expenditure fell by 70.5% in 2020 compared with 2019, according to. Domestic tourism expenditure also decreased in 2020, with resident visitors spending 32.8% less than they did in 2019. Tourism contributes about 3.7% to the country’s GDP and, in 2022, 5.7 million tourists visited South Africa. The government hopes to welcome 21 million tourists to the country by 2030 and to boost the industry’s contribution to the economy to 10%.

De Lille said she hopes to lift tourism’s profile as an economic enabler so that she can eventually petition the government for a bigger budget. “We can’t be sitting with a budget of just over R3 billion,” she said.

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