{"id":2670,"date":"2010-03-03T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T08:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:17:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T08:17:46","slug":"tourism-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/tourism-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister foresees a record 10 million visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Marthinus-van-Schalkwyk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2671\" title=\"Tourism Minister foresees a record 10 million visitors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Marthinus-van-Schalkwyk-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism Minister foresees a record 10 million visitors\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has assured South Africans that the country will receive a new record of 10-million foreign visitors this year, but his department\u2019s eyes are now firmly turning to what will happen after the World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said that in boosting business and convention tourism, one aim would be to stop Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban from undermining each other when they competed to host events.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested the number of visitors linked to the World Cup would come to between 300000 and 450000, and 34 billion people would watch it globally.<\/p>\n<p>Van Schalkwyk said that after the World Cup, \u201cwe cannot rest on our laurels. Historically, we have relied on leisure tourism, but we must diversify if we want to continue the growth we want. Business and convention tourism (are) absolutely vital to us. It makes up 6% of our tourism arrival figures.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has assured South Africans that the country will receive a new record of 10-million foreign visitors this year, but his department\u2019s eyes are now firmly turning to what will happen after the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}