Xenophobia In SA impacts travel
Views and News with Clarence Ford · 4 June 2026 · 12m
Speaker 1: It's great to have you with us. Thank you for your time. Speaker 2: Hi, thank you Clarence. Speaker 1: Thank you. Uh you told me that there was a notification that that you saw Speaker 1: this morning. Tell us about that notification from Ghana. Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a travel advisory issued by the Ghanaian government advising the citizens to Speaker 2: avoid essential, non essential travel to South Africa. Yeah, it's certainly very concerning for us Speaker 2: in the market because Ghana is one of our our key source markets into South Speaker 2: Africa. Not too long ago, a few I think two years ago, South Africa. So Speaker 2: Ghana, Ghana, can they it's visa free for them to come to South Africa. They Speaker 2: don't need to apply for a visa, and it was a growing market. Ghana is Speaker 2: very much growing. Even the North American market traveling to South Africa, they normally, you Speaker 2: know, they add on South Africa as a destination when they traveled to the continent. Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's yeah, it's a big concerned for us. Speaker 1: You have been in this particular market. We're doing intra African travel essentially for a Speaker 1: long time. I believe about twenty years, is that correct. Speaker 2: Correct, So you have been traveling on the African continent for so long our business Speaker 2: is predominantly our source market South Africa and the Middle East. Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: So we bring people from Africa into South Africa, whether it's for leisure travel or Speaker 2: conferencing or business travel, whatever you might call it. We bring people from the continent
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