Hundreds of tourism stakeholders are meeting since Tuesday at the Grand Palm Hotel in Botswana
The slow pace of development in Africa, and particularly in the tourism sector, and in some parts the lack of development, is caused by a lack of political will to make change happen. This is the view of the CEO of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa.
“And that’s the problem because year after year, we talk about how we liberalise the airspace in Africa to make sure that people can move around more efficiently. There’s no political will. The rules are still the same. The continent is still divided. Each country does what they want, they have got their own rules on bilateral agreements with whoever they want to have them with,” he explains.
Area Manager of South Africa, Ethiopia Airlines, Abel Yifru, says the high prices of airline tickets should be understood within a context. Lack of harmony between the business objective of the private sector and government policies has also been brought as one of the reasons holding back intra-Africa travel.“We need to accept that they were not put in place by aliens. They were put in place by us. So, there’s a lot of time when we debate policies as if we don’t know what to do. We know what to do. We are the ones that put those policies in place and we should put policies that are easier to manage and so on.
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