ASATA in the news: Tourism industry likely wanted more from Ramaphosa’s SONA on recovery action, expert – News 24
The industry and its parent ministry likely expected to hear more on recovery measures and stimulus support in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday evening. This is the view of Dr Kaitano Dube of the Department of Hospitality, Tourism & Public Relations at the Vaal University of Technology. Apart from […]
ASATA in the news: UIF/Ters extension an important step to save SA tourism jobs in a collapsing sector – IOL
The tourism industry has been hanging in the balance due to the effects of Covid-19 for months. With subsequent job losses and business closures, there is grave concern for what may happen during the third wave. With travellers’ sceptical to travel, the South African tourism industry has taken considerable strain financially. CEO of ASATA, Otto de […]
Emirates extends SA flight suspension to South Africa until 10 March 2021
Emirates’ flights to South Africa will remain suspended until 10 March 2021, in line with recent government directives that restrict the entry of travellers originating from South Africa, into the UAE. Customers holding tickets with final destinations in South Africa will not be accepted for travel at their point of origin. Emirates regrets any inconvenience caused. Affected […]
New BSPlink Webinar series for Airlines & Agents
BSPLink is a fundamental piece of IATA BSP services. In order to ensure that BSPlink continues to deliver fast, secure and reliable service to all BSP participants, IATA is modernising BSPlink starting with the New Front End Project. A webinar has been scheduled as per below to present how new generation of IATA BSPlink can […]
Land borders reopen with new rules
Twenty South African land borders that were closed for more than a month, have been reopened on 15 February. On Saturday, cabinet gave the go-ahead for the reopening for these border posts: The border crossings between SA and Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe were closed on January 11 in an attempt to control the […]