{"id":4084,"date":"2015-07-06T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2015-07-06T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:51:17","slug":"tourism-crisis-a-result-of-new-visa-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/visa\/tourism-crisis-a-result-of-new-visa-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism \u2018crisis\u2019 a result of new visa rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New unfriendly visa regulations have plunged South Africa into a tourism crisis costing the country about R1.6-billion as visitors are forced to jump through hoops to enter the country, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Thornton\u2019s Advisory Service this morning reported a six percent decline in the number of foreign tourist arrivals for the first three months of this year.<\/p>\n<p>This means that 150 000 fewer people chose to visit the country at a time when the country\u2019s weak currency should theoretically have driven up the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>And it only gets worse, because the company has calculated that the sudden dip in tourism has resulted in R1.6bn less being pumped into the South African economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA loss of this magnitude in foreign tourist arrivals is unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not seen such dire levels of decline in the last 21 years of our tourism industry,\u201d said Thornton\u2019s director Lee-Anne Bac&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/travel\/travel-news\/tourism-crisis-a-result-of-new-visa-rules-1.1880698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More &#8211; IOL News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Travel &#8211; <a title=\"South Africa Travel\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/category\/visa\/\">Visa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New unfriendly visa regulations have plunged South Africa into a tourism crisis costing the country about R1.6-billion as visitors are forced to jump through hoops to enter the country, according to a new report. Grant Thornton\u2019s Advisory Service this morning reported a six percent decline in the number of foreign tourist arrivals for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1956],"tags":[2674,2523,2532,2522,1634,2673,2675,2681,2672],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-visa","tag-foreign-tourist-arrivals","tag-sa-travel","tag-south-africa-today-travel","tag-south-africa-travel","tag-tourism","tag-tourism-crisis","tag-tourist","tag-visa","tag-visa-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}