JOHANNESBURG – The SA Tourism Business Council is demanding answers from the US mission in South Africa.
The United States has issued a Level 4 warning and is advising its citizens not to travel to the country.
South Africa is one of 116 countries to be added to the ‘Do Not Travel’ list.
The US says this is because of the high risk of COVID-19, crime and civil unrest in the country.
The council says the decision is unfair and the reasoning, illogical.
CEO at TBCSA Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa said: “I think it’s unfair to us. The issues of crime have been, of all the tourists that have come to the country, there are few of them that have experienced crime.
“The majority go back home without experiencing crime. It harms our industry and puts a strain on ourselves and the US. The issue around COVID is largely influencing this type of decision,” he said.
“We in South Africa are not in crisis, we have…