When the West Africa Regional Manager of South African Tourism , Thekiso Rakolojane, talks about his love for Nigeria Jollof rice and Chicken pepper soup, you see that smile which accentuate his baby face. The astute marketer with more than ten years experience with South African Tourism talks about his love for Manchester City, the task before him here in Nigeria and West Africa in general on increasing traffic to South Africa as a destination of choice.
We discovered that the perception about the destination is pretty very low, and for me, these are some of the areas that we need to work on. So, we want to make sure that while people are aware about us, they should also be positive about us as a destination. As a matter of fact at my very first meeting when I got into the market was to go visit the Consular General just to understand where we are in terms of the issue of visas and to share also with him some of the operational challenges that have been brought to our attention by our partners just so that there is an ongoing sharing of information between us.
Annually we aimed bringing about Sixty Thousand Nigeria to South Africa, As not meeting that target is not because of our own doing, it is because of the multiple variables that happened.