Africa’s Travel Indaba, hosted in Durban this month, has met the expectations of the majority of Tourism Update readers (46%), while also exceeding the expectations of a further 32%.
The remaining 22% said that the trade show did not meet their expectations.
Minister of Tourism Patricia De Lille applauded the new ground broken by Africa’s Travel Indaba, highlighting the event as one of the most powerful platforms for the industry to advance a positive and powerful African tourism story.
Uganda and it’s anti-LGBTQ+ policies
At Indaba, Tourism Update Editor, Adele Mackenzie, had a few conversations with operators about selling Uganda as a destination. The topic of conversation was the country’s discriminatory policies against the LGBTQ+ community.
One operator highlighted that the global tourism industry consists of many from the LGBTQ+ community. He said while he understood that a country’s tourism industry should not be penalised for its country’s laws, it was noticeable to many that Uganda had such a strong presence at Indaba when a number of its citizens were feeling unsafe in their own country because of ongoing reports of human rights abuses.
He said: “Should our tourism authority be creating a platform to promote a country that has such discriminatory policies?”
Tourism Update would like to hear from readers on this topic. Our poll question this week is thus:
