Soweto tourism businesses and relevant stakeholders gathered for its first Tourism Safety Forum for 2024 this month to identify challenges faced with safety and environment, discuss possible solutions, and to agree on an implementable joint programme to keep the precincts clean and safe for all visitors.
The forum also focused on the role clarification of the different stakeholders within the Soweto tourism community, and the establishment of a Tourism Safety and Environment Desk.
“The Soweto Tourism Safety Forum engages with relevant stakeholders on a quarterly basis to look at the loops that are there and seek solutions to close them. It is one of our initiatives that resulted from the Soweto Investment Conference 2023 at the Johannesburg Nasrec Expo Centre where we discussed different economic issues,” said Thato Mothopeng, National Coordinator at South African Township and Village Tourism Association, and Chairperson of Soweto Tourism.
He told Tourism Update that within the…