Statistics South Africa is currently processing arrival data and hopes to publish arrival stats for last year by the close of the financial year, at the end of March. The body has not published arrival stats beyond March 2014 and was unable to do so because it received incomplete data from the Department of Home Affairs.

Susanna Umbombo Jaswa, who heads up the tourism and migration statistics at Statistics SA, told Tourism Update the body has received the outstanding information. However, she pointed out that the delay in receiving the information had created a backlog.

Umbombo Jaswa said that because of the issues the body had experienced in receiving data, it did not want to commit to a deadline for publishing the Tourism and Migration report. However, she added that the body hoped that by the end of the financial year, it would be completed with the outstanding reports for 2014. “That is the aim from our side” she said.