{"id":5890,"date":"2015-09-21T13:57:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2020-05-20T09:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:41:23","slug":"african-open-skies-the-key-to-reaching-travel-tourism-potential-5890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/african-open-skies-the-key-to-reaching-travel-tourism-potential-5890\/","title":{"rendered":"African open skies the key to reaching Travel &#038; Tourism potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/African-Travel-and-Tourism.jpg\" alt=\"African Travel and Tourism\" width=\"610\" height=\"378\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/African-Travel-and-Tourism.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/African-Travel-and-Tourism-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/African-Travel-and-Tourism-484x300.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>\u201cAfrican states must work together to open the continent\u2019s skies in order to maximise the potential of the Travel &amp; Tourism sector\u201d.<\/h1>\n<p>That is the message from David Scowsill, President &amp; CEO, World Travel &amp; Tourism Council (WTTC) at a major speech in South Africa, today.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the World Routes Strategy Summit in Durban, Scowsill hailed the success of air liberalising initiatives across the world and called on Africa\u2019s governments to put aside decades of differences, to heed the success of open skies reforms across the world by fully implementing open skies across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica is a vast continent. The distances between the major cities is so great, with poor trans-continental road and rail networks, that flying is the only realistic way to travel.<\/p>\n<p>The economic potential of tourism in Africa is remarkable. According to our figures it will rival Asia Pacific for growth in the next decade. But for this to materialise or even be exceeded, it needs individual nations to work together on progressively implementing the Yamoussoukro Agreement signed over 25 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest single opportunity for Africa is to fully liberalise its air travel. The role of aviation in creating jobs and driving economic growth is too important to be ignored, particularly when restrained by one ministry\u2019s mandate to protect a national airline. The industry requires a coherent aviation policy. It cannot make financial sense for a country to protect one or two companies, at the expense of the economic growth of an entire industry.<\/p>\n<p>Travel &amp; Tourism generates economic growth, jobs and investment. Aviation liberalisation creates more routes, greater competition and lower fares. We urge the continent\u2019s leaders to fully liberalise aviation for the potential of our industry to be fully realised.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfrican states must work together to open the continent\u2019s skies in order to maximise the potential of the Travel &#038; Tourism sector\u201d.<\/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":[7877,137,7,7873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sectoral","category-tourism","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890","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=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}