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Total tourist arrivals
2014
2 226 947
2015
2 015 056
Difference
-211 891
Africa land markets
1 680 493
1 547 330
-133 163
-7.9%
87 934
77 574
-10 360
-11.8%
Americas
108 242
94 778
-13 464
-12.4%
Asia & Australasia
106 106
86 322
-19 784
-18.6%
Europe
240 435
205 669
-34 766
-14.5%
Africa air markets
% Change
-9.5%
Source: Statssa, South African Tourism analysis. Note: Regions do not add up to total due to 3,383 “Unspecified”–details in report body.
Total Foreign Direct Spend in SA (Including capital expenditure)
2014
R13,7 billion
Total Foreign Direct Spend in SA (Excluding capital expenditure)
R13,6 billion

Land markets1

Air markets2
Average spend in SA per foreign tourist (Excluding capital
expenditure)

Land markets1

Air markets2
Average spend in SA per foreign tourist per day (Excluding capital
expenditure)

Land markets1

Air markets2
Average Length of Stay

Land markets1

Air markets2
Total bednights spent in SA

Land markets1

Air markets2
Average number of provinces visited by all foreign tourists
R7,7 billion
R5,9 billion
2015
R16,9 billion
(up 12.1% from 2014)
R15,0 billion
(up 10.3% from 2014)
R7,1 billion
R7,9 billion
R6,300
R7,900
R4,600
R12,500
R4,700
R19,000
R 740
R 770
R 660
R 880
R 580
R1,100
8.5 nights
6.9 nights
14.2 nights
9.8 nights
7.8 nights
17.2 nights
18,3 million
11,6 million
6,7 million
19,5 million
12,0 million
7,5 million
1.10
1.20
1.03
1.36
1.10
1.53


markets1
Land
Air markets2
Source: South African Tourism Departure Surveys, South African Tourism analysis, Tourism Satellite Account - StatsSA
Total Domestic Trips
Total Direct Domestic Spend
Average Spend per Domestic Trip
Average Nights per Domestic Trip
Total Quarter Domestic Bednights
2014
6.9 million
R 7.2 billion
R 1,040
3.4 nights
23.3 million
2015
5.8 million
R 4.5 billion
R 770
3.7 nights
21.1 million
Source: South African Tourism Domestic Survey, South African Tourism analysis
1 Land markets are those countries where at least 60% of arrivals from the country arrive by land. The countries are Botswana, Lesotho,
Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
2 Air markets are those countries where at least 60% of arrivals from the country arrive by air.
Contents
1.
FOREWORD .................................................................................................... 4
2.
OVERVIEW OF THE QUARTER ....................................................................... 5
2.1.
3.
FOREIGN TOURISM ..................................................................................... 5
ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................... 7
3.1.
APPENDIX 1: TOURIST ARRIVALS .............................................................. 7
3.2.
APPENDIX 2: AGE PROFILE........................................................................ 8
3.3.
APPENDIX 3: PURPOSE OF VISIT ............................................................. 11
3.4.
APPENDIX 4: REPEAT RATE ..................................................................... 14
3.5.
APPENDIX 5: LENGTH OF STAY............................................................... 17
3.6.
APPENDIX 6: ACCOMMODATION USAGE.................................................. 17
3.7.
APPENDIX 7: PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION ............................................... 20
3.7.1.
SHARE OF ARRIVALS ............................................................................ 20
3.7.2.
BEDNIGHTS ........................................................................................... 23
3.8.
APPENDIX 8: ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY TOURISTS ........................... 26
3.9.
APPENDIX 9: EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA ....................................... 29
3.10.
4.
APPENDIX 10: TOTAL FOREIGN DIRECT SPEND .................................. 30
SA TOURISM’S DEPARTURE SURVEY ........................................................... 32
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4.1.
SAMPLE DESIGN ....................................................................................... 33
4.2.
DATA RELIABILITY ................................................................................... 34
4.3.
NORMALISING EXPENDITURE DATA......................................................... 34
5.
SA TOURISM’S DOMESTIC TOURISM SURVEY .............................................. 35
5.1.
SAMPLE DESIGN ....................................................................................... 35
5.2.
NORMALISING EXPENDITURE DATA......................................................... 37
5.3.
DATA RELIABILITY ................................................................................... 37
6.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS .................................................................................. 38
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1. Foreword
As the tourism marketing arm of the South African Government, South African Tourism has
developed an integrated marketing strategy that focuses on three platforms: leisure, business
and events. Part of our business is to monitor and evaluate the performance of the tourism
sector. This consolidated report prepared by the Strategic Research Unit provides a review of
the performance of the tourism sector in January to March 2015 against the South African
Tourism mandate.
This report by the Strategic Research Unit is also based on the systems and methodologies that
were developed and applied from 2001. In 2002, South African Tourism extended the survey of
departing foreign tourists at OR Tambo International Airport from only in summer and winter to
throughout the year. In 2003, this was extended to Cape Town International Airport. The data
collection was also expanded to include monthly surveys of the largest segment of foreign
arrivals, land border arrivals. The sample is weighted to tourist arrivals as released by Statistics
SA.
In 2014, Statistics SA made changes to the release of its Tourism & Migration reports and now
no longer report on transit tourists. As a result of this change, the weighting methodology has
been revised and the results in this report are now not comparable to reports prior to 2013.
This quarter 1 report of 2015 Annual Report represents the first 3 year comparison using the
new series of quarterly reports and is identified by its red tables on the front page.
This report provides an overview of the performance of tourism in South Africa in January to
March 2015 based on five of the six key objectives of South African Tourism i.e., volume, value,
length of stay, seasonality and geographic spread. Transformation (the sixth objective) is
driven by the BEE Scorecard and Charter that was launched in 2006 and will be incorporated
into the report as soon as data becomes available.
While we have been able to track key metrics consistently over the years through our
Departure Surveys, the start of a new data series on tourist arrivals reported by Statistics SA
has resulted in a new weighting methodology. This report is now part of the new data series.
This report is based on
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Statistics SA’s Tourism & Migration releases for 2015
South African Tourism’s monthly departure surveys conducted at OR Tambo International
Airport and Cape Town International Airport as well as 10 land border posts during 2015
SA Tourism’s monthly domestic tourism surveys
To access this report online please visit the research section on the South Africa Tourism
website at www.southafrica.net/research or for more information e-mail:
[email protected].
Disclaimer
The Strategic Research Unit makes every effort to publish reports that are error-free. However,
with the large number of complex records that are analysed, we cannot guarantee that all
reports are totally free of error. All errors that are detected are immediately corrected and the
latest version of the report is always available on www.southafrica.net/research.
The data in this report is based on statistics collected by the Department of Home Affairs at
ports of entry to South Africa. It is processed and released by StatsSA and SA Tourism uses
these statistics in good faith.
2. Overview of the quarter
2.1. Foreign tourism
The second quarter of 2015 saw over 2 million tourist arrivals to South Africa, a decrease of
-9.5% (-211,891) compared to the same period in 2014. This follows declines of -5.9% in the first
quarter. Tourist arrivals decreased during all three months of this quarter. April saw a decrease
of -14.3% (-120,543), May decreased by -4.0% (-28,714) and June decreased by -9.3% (-62,634).
There was also negative growth in tourist arrivals to South Africa from all regions, with the largest
decline coming from Asia & Australasia at -18.6% (-19,785). Europe has the next largest declines
with a -14.5% (-34,766) drop in tourist arrivals while Americas were lower -12.4% (-13,464). Africa
land led the falling arrivals in absolute terms with the decline of -7.9% resulting in (-133,163)
less arrivals. Africa air markets were down by -11.8% (-10,360).
Against this, total foreign direct spend (excluding capital expenditure), or foreign tourism
revenue, grew by an estimated 10.3% (R1.4 billion) in Q2 2015 over Q2 2014 reaching a total
amount of R15,0 billion. Tourist revenue has increased across all regions with the exception of
Africa land markets which are down -8.3% from 2014 revenue. The decrease in Africa land is
driven by a decrease in spend per day despite an increase in average spend, higher average
length of stay and bednights. Spend per day, average spend, average length of stay and bednigths
for all air markets increased compared to last year even as arrivals from the regions are down.
The rand depreciated against major currencies in this quarter and spend per foreign tourist
increased in light of favourable exchange rate. The average spend per trip increasing to an
estimated R7,900 in Q2 2015 from an estimated R6,300 in Q2 2014.
Africa air: The negative growth in tourist arrivals from this region was driven by Ghana with the
highest declines of -25.2% (-1,196) and while Uganda declined by -22.8% (-729). Nigeria is the
largest source market in this region and declined -8.0% (1,268). Angola, Kenya and DRC declined
by -17.7% (-2,158), -17.1% (-1,206) and -15.0% (-967) respectively. Egypt is the only major Air
market to grow over 2014 levels with 18.0% (275) growth. Other Africa air markets contribute
15.0% of the volume from Africa air markets and contracted from last year. Tourism revenue
from this region increased by 88.7% to reach R1,4 billion in this quarter, driven by a 41.2%
increase in average spend per day along with increased length of stay and bednights. The average
spend increased by 113.6% (R11,000) from an estimated R9,700 in Q2 2014 to an estimated
R20,700 in Q2 2015.
Africa land: There was a decline of -7.9% (133,163) in tourist arrivals from this region. With
growth only from Botswana which was up 2.7% (3,808) from 2014. Zimbabwe which still remains
the main contributor in this region dropped by -13.5% (-70,017). Lesotho and Mozambique the
other markets in Top 3 arrivals for South Africa also had negative growth, declined by -2.7%
(-9,504) and -8.8% (-26,925) respectively. Swaziland is down from 2014 by -7.8% (-17,758) and
Zambia down by -9.3% (-3,997) from a small base. Namibia was stable with a decrease of -0.3%
(-162) while Malawi remains the smallest country in terms of arrivals with a decline of -24.0%
(8,608). Tourism expenditure from this region declined by -8.3% (-R0.6 billion). The decline in
tourism expenditure from this region was despite an increase in average spend and longer stay,
the amount tourists spent per day was down -11.5% (-R80). The average spend per tourist
increased from an estimated R4,600 in Q2 2014 to an estimated R4,700 in Q2 2015 and average
length of stay has grown from 6.9 nights in Q2 2014 to 7.8 nights in Q2 2015.
Americas: The -12.4% (-13,464) decline in tourist arrivals was driven by decreases from Central
& South America which fell -33.3% (-5,231). These declines are led by -39.4% (-245) drop in
arrivals from Chile and -37.5% (-3,822) arrivals from Brazil, with other markets also having high
double digit declines off a much smaller bases. North America was also down -8.9% (-8,233) with
Canada and USA down by -16.4% and -7.7% respectively. USA remains the main source market in
this region with 73,558 tourists in this quarter. Tourism revenue from this region grew by 58.3%
to reach an estimated R2,1 billion in Q2 2015. The average length of stay, average spend and
spend per day are higher than same period last year and contribute to the increase in revenue.
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The average spend per tourist increased from an estimated R13,500 in Q2 2014 to an estimated
R22,700 in Q2 2015.
Asia & Australasia: Overall tourist arrivals from this region declined by -18.6% (-19,784) driven
by declines in most major markets. Asia declined by -20.3% (-15,121) and Australasia by -14.8%
(-4,663). India as the leading source market in the region in the quarter saw a drop of -16.7%
(-4,570). Australia is second largest contributor of arrivals also declined -15.8% (-4,236) with
China (including Hong Kong) also declining by -19.1% (-3,886) and Japan declined by -29.8%
(-1,899). Tourism revenue from this region grew by an estimated 27.4% to reach R1,4 billion in
Q2 2015. The average spend per foreign tourist is up by R6,000 from an estimated R11,400 in Q2
2014 to an estimated R17,400 in Q2 2015.
Europe: Europe recorded a -14.5% (34,766) decline in tourist arrivals as all major markets were
down in the region. The largest declines in arrivals were from Russian Federation which was down
by (-38.0%), Norway (-29.8%), Austria (-25.3%), Hungary (-24.8%), Italy (-24.7%), Germany
(-23.3%) and Portugal (-22.1%). UK remains the main source of tourist volume in this region and
it was down -12.5% (9,767). Tourism revenue increased by 12.5% to an estimated R3,1 billion in
Q2 2015 compared to the R2,8 billion in Q2 2014. This was driven by an increase in average length
of stay and average spend per foreign tourist. The recovery of the Rand against the Euro seems
to not have affected tourists spend from the region because spend grew despite the exchange
rate changes. The Rand depreciated against the Pound may have also added a positive effect on
the average spend from UK. Overall from Europe the average spend per tourist increased to
estimated R17,300 in Q2 2015 from an estimated R13,600 in Q2 2014.
Leisure3 (62.1%) remained the primary reason for tourists visiting South Africa in this quarter.
The proportion of leisure tourists has decreased by -10.4% compared to the same period in 2014,
driven by decreases in the number of VFR tourists and personal shoppers. However Africa land
markets have seen growth in leisure tourists while other regions are down in comparison to 2014.
There was a decrease in VFR tourists from all regions except Americas and Asia & Australasia in
this quarter compared to the same period in 2014.
The average length of stay of all foreign tourists increased from 8.5 nights to 9.8 nights this was
driven by an increase from all regions. The increase in length of stay increased the total number
of bednights spent in South Africa by 6.6% (1,205,304) to 19,5 million bednights in Q2 2015 from
18,3 million in Q2 2014.
Overall, tourists visited only one province (1.20) in this quarter. However, tourists from air
markets tend to travel more within the country and visited more (1.53) provinces on average.
Gauteng, the Western Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo were the most visited provinces in South
Africa.
Visiting friends and family (30.6%), Hospitable and friendly people (22.1%), Beautiful scenery
(19.2%) and were the best experiences of foreign tourists to South Africa in this quarter. 26.4%
of foreign tourists sampled mentioned they had a bad experience with 17.9% mentioning issues
relating to safety.
3
Leisure travel includes holiday, shopping personal and VFR travel.
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Analysis
1.1. Appendix 1: Tourist Arrivals
TABLE B - Q2 2015
TOTAL TOURIST ARRIVALS EXCLUDING TRANSIT TOURISTS
A to urist is an o vernight visito r taking a trip to a main destinatio n o utside his/her usual enviro nment, fo r less than a year, fo r any main purpo se (business, leisure o r o ther perso nal purpo se) o ther than to be emplo yed by a resident entity in the co untry o r place visited. A s o f 2014, Statistics SA is no lo nger able to pro vide statistics o n Transit To urists and therefo re a new
baseline is no w created.
APR TO JUN 2015 COMPARED WITH APR TO JUN 2014
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE
EUROPE:
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russian Fed
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
Other
EUROPE
NORTH AMERICA:
Canada
USA
Other
NORTH AMERICA
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
Venezuela
Other
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
AUSTRALASIA:
Australia
New Zealand
Other
AUSTRALASIA
ASIA:
China (including Hong Kong)
India
Indonesia
Japan
Rep of Korea
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Rep of China (Taiwan)
Thailand
Other
ASIA
MIDDLE EAST:
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Other
MIDDLE EAST
AFRICA MAINLAND:
Angola
Dem Rep of Congo
Botswana
Egypt
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Swaziland
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Other
TOTAL AFRICA MAINLAND
INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS:
Mauritius
Reunion
Seychelles
TOTAL INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS
TOTAL AFRICA
Unspecified
GRAND TOTAL
APR
2015
1 124
4 032
1 275
495
9 850
14 640
457
206
1 757
2 865
6 823
921
618
3 001
533
1 618
1 859
3 527
29 825
1 865
87 291
APR
2014
%
MAY
2015
MAY
2014
DIFF
-
621
163
616
88
1 481
8 190
5
47
449
1 817
1 867
768
152
1 551
544
885
310
797
7 924
526
28 801
-35.6%
-3.9%
-32.6%
-15.1%
-13.1%
-35.9%
-1.1%
-18.6%
-20.4%
-38.8%
-21.5%
-45.5%
-19.7%
-34.1%
-50.5%
-35.4%
-14.3%
-18.4%
-21.0%
-22.0%
-24.8%
850
1 874
1 130
421
7 748
10 860
391
174
1 613
3 018
6 097
623
721
2 926
479
1 713
1 317
2 036
20 895
1 454
66 340
894
1 792
1 039
454
7 554
11 601
382
262
1 380
3 727
5 677
700
620
3 334
604
1 942
1 296
1 843
21 264
1 482
67 847
4 831 21 687 26 518 -
990
2 911
3 901
-20.5%
-13.4%
0.0%
-14.7%
3 980
28 279
32 259
-
303
2 172
74
150
61
143
2 903
-48.8%
-50.1%
-39.4%
-39.7%
-40.9%
-19.2%
-45.3%
366
2 434
143
196
52
643
3 834
463
3 881
305
346
67
809
5 871
10 188 1 841 16
12 045 -
2 618
315
9
2 924
-25.7%
-17.1%
56.3%
-24.3%
7 295
1 199
22
8 516
6 714
5 808
130
1 375
890
392
428
377
358
452
1 675
18 599
8 133
7 494
260
1 746
1 102
634
652
588
448
780
2 364
24 201
-
1 419
1 686
130
371
212
242
224
211
90
328
689
5 602
-17.4%
-22.5%
-50.0%
-21.2%
-19.2%
-38.2%
-34.4%
-35.9%
-20.1%
-42.1%
-29.1%
-23.1%
5 519
10 414
140
1 716
943
1 152
422
475
439
412
2 282
23 914
6 330
11 090
244
2 211
1 094
1 016
619
905
516
524
1 973
26 522
-
1 437
292
767
182
954
3 632
2 277
290
927
76
1 103
4 673
-
840
2
160
106
149
1 041
-36.9%
0.7%
-17.3%
139.5%
-13.5%
-22.3%
976
353
1 021
110
935
3 395
1 180
379
962
153
816
3 490
-
3 624
1 950
61 919
603
475
1 209
2 091
123 066
8 027
85 034
20 714
5 767
76 908
2 670
832
12 632
162 024
2 656
572 201
4 071
2 493
59 875
506
560
1 686
2 580
124 222
11 875
102 380
22 476
5 741
87 013
2 814
1 149
15 739
198 632
3 282
647 094
-
447
543
2 044
97
85
477
489
1 156
3 848
17 346
1 762
26
10 105
144
317
3 107
36 608
626
74 893
-11.0%
-21.8%
3.4%
19.2%
-15.2%
-28.3%
-19.0%
-0.9%
-32.4%
-16.9%
-7.8%
0.5%
-11.6%
-5.1%
-27.6%
-19.7%
-18.4%
-19.1%
-11.6%
3 741
1 788
43 145
576
566
1 302
2 058
117 318
9 568
101 639
18 085
4 315
72 100
2 655
914
13 144
148 246
3 110
544 270
5 017
2 130
43 471
512
604
1 626
2 392
110 356
9 907
102 485
17 327
5 122
73 137
2 771
1 118
13 726
169 448
3 738
564 887
-
1 281
375
1 656
573 857
929
719 557
1 486
376
1 862
648 956
1 201
840 100
-
205
1
206
75 099
272
120 543
-13.8%
0.0%
-0.3%
-11.1%
-11.6%
-22.6%
-14.3%
1 236
5
444
1 685
545 955
1 194
685 407
1 289
4
325
1 618
566 505
1 274
714 121
-
**OVERSEAS TOTAL
144 771
189 943 45 172
-23.8%
** GRAND TOTAL LESS TOTAL AFRICA AND UNSPECIFIED W.E.F. JANUARY 2001
SA TOURISM CLASSIFIES TURKEY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NOT IN EUROPE
SOURCE: STATISTICS SA
138 258
3 841
18 776
22 617
318
2 161
114
228
88
602
3 511
7 570
1 526
25
9 121
1 745
4 195
1 891
583
11 331
22 830
462
253
2 206
4 682
8 690
1 689
770
4 552
1 077
2 503
2 169
4 324
37 749
2 391
116 092
DIFF
621
4 333
188
378
149
745
6 414
-
-
-
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%
JUN
2015
JUN
2014
DIFF
-
44
82
91
33
194
741
9
88
233
709
420
77
101
408
125
229
21
193
369
28
1 507
-4.9%
4.6%
8.8%
-7.3%
2.6%
-6.4%
2.4%
-33.6%
16.9%
-19.0%
7.4%
-11.0%
16.3%
-12.2%
-20.7%
-11.8%
1.6%
10.5%
-1.7%
-1.9%
-2.2%
554
1 604
977
373
5 112
6 983
296
160
1 471
2 922
4 256
730
462
2 565
345
1 755
1 045
1 339
17 897
1 192
52 038
745
1 672
833
502
5 064
7 927
333
203
1 521
3 282
4 411
851
480
3 021
506
1 853
1 186
1 424
19 371
1 311
56 496
4 556 28 734 33 290 -
576
455
1 031
-12.6%
-1.6%
0.0%
-3.1%
2 918
26 503
29 421
-
97
1 447
162
150
15
166
2 037
-21.0%
-37.3%
-53.1%
-43.4%
-22.4%
-20.5%
-34.7%
276
1 778
120
229
97
636
3 136
266
1 981
129
268
50
733
3 427
7 941 1 362 19
9 322 -
646
163
3
806
-8.1%
-12.0%
15.8%
-8.6%
7 682
1 560
15
9 257
811
676
104
495
151
136
197
430
77
112
309
2 608
-12.8%
-6.1%
-42.6%
-22.4%
-13.8%
13.4%
-31.8%
-47.5%
-14.9%
-21.4%
15.7%
-9.8%
4 174
6 577
137
1 373
801
345
376
560
300
371
1 901
16 915
5 830
8 785
366
2 406
1 123
625
354
1 092
586
520
2 139
23 826
-
204
26
59
43
119
95
-17.3%
-6.9%
6.1%
-28.1%
14.6%
-2.7%
930
447
750
104
691
2 922
1 276
342
326
64
38
324
334
6 962
339
846
758
807
1 037
116
204
582
21 202
628
20 617
-25.4%
-16.1%
-0.7%
12.5%
-6.3%
-19.9%
-14.0%
6.3%
-3.4%
-0.8%
4.4%
-15.8%
-1.4%
-4.2%
-18.2%
-4.2%
-12.5%
-16.8%
-3.6%
-
53
1
119
67
20 550
80
28 714
146 342 -
8 084
-
-
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%
APR TO JUN
2015
-
191
68
144
129
48
944
37
43
50
360
155
121
18
456
161
98
141
85
1 474
119
4 458
-25.6%
-4.1%
17.3%
-25.7%
0.9%
-11.9%
-11.1%
-21.2%
-3.3%
-11.0%
-3.5%
-14.2%
-3.8%
-15.1%
-31.8%
-5.3%
-11.9%
-6.0%
-7.6%
-9.1%
-7.9%
2 528
7 510
3 382
1 289
22 710
32 483
1 144
540
4 841
8 805
17 176
2 274
1 801
8 492
1 357
5 086
4 221
6 902
68 617
4 511
205 669
3 453 29 269 32 722 -
535
2 766
3 301
-15.5%
-9.5%
0.0%
-10.1%
-
10
203
9
39
47
97
291
8 654 1 522
14
10 190 -
DIFF
%
2014
-
856
149
381
250
1 239
9 875
33
178
266
2 886
1 602
966
69
2 415
830
1 212
430
689
9 767
673
34 766
-25.3%
-1.9%
-10.1%
-16.2%
-5.2%
-23.3%
-2.8%
-24.8%
-5.2%
-24.7%
-8.5%
-29.8%
-3.7%
-22.1%
-38.0%
-19.2%
-9.2%
-9.1%
-12.5%
-13.0%
-14.5%
10 739
73 558
84 297
12 840 79 690 92 530 -
2 101
6 132
8 233
-16.4%
-7.7%
#DIV/0!
-8.9%
3.8%
-10.2%
-7.0%
-14.6%
94.0%
-13.2%
-8.5%
960
6 373
377
653
237
1 881
10 481
1 350
10 195
622
992
266
2 287
15 712
-
390
3 822
245
339
29
406
5 231
-28.9%
-37.5%
-39.4%
-34.2%
-10.9%
-17.8%
-33.3%
972
38
1
933
-11.2%
2.5%
7.1%
-9.2%
22 547
4 285
62
26 894
26 783 4 725 49
31 557 -
4 236
440
13
4 663
-15.8%
-9.3%
26.5%
-14.8%
-
1 656
2 208
229
1 033
322
280
22
532
286
149
238
6 911
-28.4%
-25.1%
-62.6%
-42.9%
-28.7%
-44.8%
6.2%
-48.7%
-48.8%
-28.7%
-11.1%
-29.0%
16 407
22 799
407
4 464
2 634
1 889
1 226
1 412
1 097
1 235
5 858
59 428
20 293
27 369
870
6 363
3 319
2 275
1 625
2 585
1 550
1 824
6 476
74 549
-
3 886
4 570
463
1 899
685
386
399
1 173
453
589
618
15 121
-19.1%
-16.7%
-53.2%
-29.8%
-20.6%
-17.0%
-24.6%
-45.4%
-29.2%
-32.3%
-9.5%
-20.3%
1 084
810
799
117
939
3 749
-
154
363
49
13
248
827
-14.2%
-44.8%
-6.1%
-11.1%
-26.4%
-22.1%
3 343
1 092
2 538
396
2 580
9 949
4 541
1 479
2 688
346
2 858
11 912
-
1 198
387
150
50
278
1 963
-26.4%
-26.2%
-5.6%
14.5%
-9.7%
-16.5%
2 703
1 743
39 707
628
572
1 042
1 713
102 880
9 736
93 697
13 845
4 462
62 160
2 756
723
13 234
138 502
3 646
493 749
3 138
1 825
37 617
514
468
1 437
2 096
118 190
14 157
102 430
13 003
4 949
68 776
2 737
931
13 542
150 709
3 074
539 593
-
435
82
2 090
114
104
395
383
15 310
4 421
8 733
842
487
6 616
19
208
308
12 207
572
45 844
-13.9%
-4.5%
5.6%
22.2%
22.2%
-27.5%
-18.3%
-13.0%
-31.2%
-8.5%
6.5%
-9.8%
-9.6%
0.7%
-22.3%
-2.3%
-8.1%
18.6%
-8.5%
10 068
5 481
144 771
1 807
1 613
3 553
5 862
343 264
27 331
280 370
52 644
14 544
211 168
8 081
2 469
39 010
448 772
9 412
1 610 220
12 226
6 448
140 963
1 532
1 632
4 749
7 068
352 768
35 939
307 295
52 806
15 812
228 926
8 322
3 198
43 007
518 789
10 094
1 751 574
-
2 158
967
3 808
275
19
1 196
1 206
9 504
8 608
26 925
162
1 268
17 758
241
729
3 997
70 017
682
141 354
-17.7%
-15.0%
2.7%
18.0%
-1.2%
-25.2%
-17.1%
-2.7%
-24.0%
-8.8%
-0.3%
-8.0%
-7.8%
-2.9%
-22.8%
-9.3%
-13.5%
-6.8%
-8.1%
-4.1%
0.0%
36.6%
4.1%
-3.6%
-6.3%
-4.0%
1 149
4
241
1 394
495 143
1 260
610 092
1 195
266
1 461
541 054
1 262
672 726
-
46
4
25
67
45 911
2
62 634
-3.8%
0.0%
-9.4%
-4.6%
-8.5%
-0.2%
-9.3%
3 666
9
1 060
4 735
1 614 955
3 383
2 015 056
3 970
4
967
4 941
1 756 515
3 737
2 226 947
-
-
-
304
5
93
206
141 560
354
211 891
-7.7%
125.0%
9.6%
-4.2%
-8.1%
-9.5%
-9.5%
-5.5%
113 689
130 410 -
16 721
-12.8%
396 718
466 695 -
69 977
-15.0%
-
-
-
3 384
7 659
3 763
1 539
23 949
42 358
1 177
718
5 107
11 691
18 778
3 240
1 870
10 907
2 187
6 298
4 651
7 591
78 384
5 184
240 435
-
-
1.2. Appendix 2: Age profile
AGE OF RESPONDENTS
2015
18-24 years
25-34 years
35-44 years
AFRICA LAND
11.7%
36.6%
28.2%
Botswana
6.1%
32.7%
31.4%
Lesotho
20.1%
34.4%
20.7%
Malawi
8.2%
32.2%
40.6%
Mozambique
10.3%
41.1%
29.6%
Namibia
6.8%
18.7%
27.4%
Swaziland
12.2%
41.3%
22.0%
Zambia
6.8%
27.9%
40.7%
Zimbabwe
8.9%
37.7%
33.3%
AFRICA AIR
6.8%
31.6%
31.8%
Angola
10.3%
35.9%
30.8%
Democratic Republic of Congo
1.1%
15.2%
40.9%
Ethiopia
8.3%
35.8%
21.9%
Ghana
3.8%
42.8%
34.1%
Kenya
4.8%
27.4%
32.5%
Nigeria
7.7%
28.1%
30.8%
Tanzania
2.1%
53.3%
22.4%
Uganda
9.7%
35.0%
33.7%
Other Africa and Middle East
8.1%
27.5%
34.0%
AMERICAS
17.5%
25.1%
17.4%
Argentina
3.1%
23.5%
43.0%
Brazil
7.0%
34.3%
31.7%
Canada
22.0%
23.7%
12.7%
USA
17.9%
24.6%
16.2%
Other Americas
16.9%
22.3%
31.6%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
6.7%
32.3%
25.7%
Australia
6.4%
24.3%
18.8%
China including Hong Kong
7.3%
34.5%
27.6%
India
7.5%
38.7%
27.7%
Japan
0.9%
45.3%
30.9%
New Zealand
2.2%
27.8%
25.6%
South Korea
19.4%
35.6%
15.1%
Other Asia and Australasia
5.8%
28.0%
34.3%
EUROPE
12.0%
28.6%
24.7%
Austria
15.6%
36.2%
13.8%
Belgium
16.7%
38.1%
20.2%
Denmark
15.4%
22.8%
16.8%
France
9.6%
22.7%
32.4%
Germany
15.1%
29.2%
20.7%
Italy
5.8%
35.2%
26.2%
Netherlands
15.2%
28.6%
17.4%
Russian Fed
10.5%
27.9%
25.8%
Spain
3.9%
52.2%
25.7%
Sweden
23.4%
24.5%
17.8%
Switzerland
17.3%
22.4%
25.3%
UK
10.3%
26.3%
25.9%
Other Europe
11.3%
33.8%
29.2%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
11.6%
34.9%
27.4%
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
South African Tourism - Strategic Research Unit
45-54 years
55-64 years
65+ years
11.9%
16.9%
10.7%
12.0%
8.4%
21.2%
11.8%
18.9%
11.6%
16.6%
14.7%
24.6%
20.2%
9.4%
18.8%
17.1%
8.0%
19.3%
18.1%
15.2%
22.5%
8.8%
17.4%
15.5%
9.5%
19.0%
20.3%
21.0%
15.1%
16.0%
21.6%
25.9%
19.6%
15.2%
10.8%
12.8%
22.1%
18.2%
14.0%
18.9%
13.6%
17.9%
12.1%
15.4%
18.0%
15.7%
11.3%
12.8%
4.2%
7.0%
4.1%
3.5%
3.8%
15.1%
3.9%
3.5%
2.7%
7.2%
5.6%
13.5%
1.9%
5.0%
4.2%
6.0%
10.7%
1.5%
2.0%
2.2%
7.9%
12.5%
8.0%
8.2%
12.6%
12.7%
19.0%
8.7%
16.2%
1.8%
7.7%
2.2%
14.4%
3.9%
6.9%
9.2%
7.5%
5.1%
17.5%
7.5%
9.2%
8.1%
13.1%
15.8%
3.8%
12.8%
8.5%
9.8%
6.8%
5.4%
0.7%
6.8%
1.5%
0.9%
1.1%
1.3%
2.5%
1.2%
1.2%
1.4%
8.7%
1.7%
7.9%
9.7%
3.7%
10.3%
1.5%
6.6%
7.1%
6.7%
6.1%
3.8%
5.4%
7.1%
4.2%
9.0%
2.1%
0.8%
5.8%
2.7%
9.4%
4.6%
2.5%
AGE OF RESPONDENTS
2014
18-24 years
25-34 years
35-44 years
AFRICA LAND
11.7%
33.2%
34.0%
Botswana
1.4%
21.1%
57.9%
Lesotho
18.8%
40.5%
20.3%
Malawi
24.1%
56.0%
Mozambique
14.8%
50.5%
24.8%
Namibia
6.1%
30.0%
25.6%
Swaziland
32.7%
40.7%
18.6%
Zambia
2.6%
30.9%
43.9%
Zimbabwe
0.6%
19.1%
47.6%
AFRICA AIR
5.2%
28.0%
39.4%
Angola
6.0%
29.1%
37.7%
Democratic Republic of Congo
6.0%
21.9%
39.0%
Ethiopia
12.2%
26.7%
35.7%
Ghana
2.7%
33.9%
39.4%
Kenya
28.2%
51.4%
Nigeria
3.6%
28.1%
41.0%
Tanzania
3.4%
25.9%
47.2%
Uganda
3.9%
27.1%
47.1%
Other Africa and Middle East
7.5%
28.2%
33.9%
AMERICAS
14.1%
23.2%
20.2%
Argentina
4.1%
34.2%
36.4%
Brazil
9.4%
34.9%
36.8%
Canada
13.9%
22.5%
23.1%
USA
15.5%
20.9%
17.0%
Other Americas
2.4%
41.6%
26.4%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
6.2%
23.9%
32.6%
Australia
8.4%
17.2%
22.2%
China including Hong Kong
6.2%
33.9%
31.4%
India
5.3%
26.2%
41.8%
Japan
5.9%
18.2%
33.5%
New Zealand
2.3%
17.1%
26.5%
South Korea
6.1%
26.1%
35.9%
Other Asia and Australasia
4.9%
22.1%
37.6%
EUROPE
9.6%
24.8%
25.1%
Austria
9.2%
17.6%
31.8%
Belgium
8.0%
25.3%
31.0%
Denmark
7.4%
29.0%
12.4%
France
12.6%
23.9%
29.1%
Germany
15.4%
24.7%
19.7%
Italy
2.0%
28.7%
22.6%
Netherlands
9.6%
23.1%
25.0%
Russian Fed
2.0%
26.7%
37.6%
Spain
8.4%
27.5%
32.1%
Sweden
10.7%
27.5%
35.8%
Switzerland
13.8%
25.4%
18.5%
UK
8.1%
25.0%
26.2%
Other Europe
6.5%
23.4%
24.8%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
11.1%
31.3%
32.7%
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
South African Tourism - Strategic Research Unit
45-54 years
55-64 years
65+ years
15.3%
18.2%
15.4%
19.1%
7.9%
28.8%
5.3%
17.2%
21.5%
18.4%
18.2%
23.2%
16.3%
15.5%
12.4%
22.6%
18.1%
16.6%
17.4%
18.6%
15.1%
12.8%
20.2%
19.1%
17.5%
18.7%
21.6%
12.7%
19.0%
21.3%
22.6%
18.3%
18.8%
19.8%
22.2%
15.7%
23.9%
20.0%
20.1%
26.5%
15.9%
22.7%
17.0%
14.8%
22.6%
18.6%
22.9%
16.2%
4.4%
.6%
4.1%
1.3%
.6%
.9%
1.7%
5.8%
2.3%
5.2%
8.2%
5.1%
3.7%
7.4%
6.7%
3.3%
4.6%
2.3%
3.4%
4.0%
8.0%
11.7%
5.8%
4.2%
6.2%
13.9%
4.5%
8.3%
13.9%
9.0%
4.5%
5.8%
10.5%
5.9%
5.0%
8.4%
6.5%
10.5%
11.6%
8.4%
9.4%
8.5%
7.6%
8.0%
3.6%
8.0%
7.0%
8.5%
8.4%
5.3%
3.2%
2.9%
.9%
1.3%
1.2%
1.3%
.6%
.7%
1.7%
8.4%
.7%
1.2%
6.6%
10.0%
2.3%
6.0%
11.9%
2.6%
1.5%
2.3%
18.9%
5.6%
5.5%
5.3%
11.8%
6.9%
3.3%
5.0%
5.9%
1.7%
6.7%
3.0%
1.3%
3.2%
4.3%
5.5%
6.2%
2.2%
AGE OF RESPONDENTS
2013
18-24 years
25-34 years
35-44 years
AFRICA LAND
10.4%
35.9%
32.9%
Botswana
1.2%
26.1%
52.9%
Lesotho
15.6%
36.9%
27.7%
Malawi
3.0%
36.8%
34.3%
Mozambique
11.0%
50.7%
29.9%
Namibia
8.4%
27.8%
29.4%
Swaziland
26.3%
46.0%
20.5%
Zambia
3.5%
41.8%
32.4%
Zimbabwe
2.9%
25.6%
39.5%
AFRICA AIR
7.7%
30.7%
35.6%
Angola
13.9%
35.2%
27.8%
Democratic Republic of Congo
4.9%
24.0%
34.1%
Ethiopia
5.8%
23.0%
38.8%
Ghana
7.3%
30.7%
39.7%
Kenya
3.0%
35.2%
41.1%
Nigeria
7.4%
27.7%
40.6%
Tanzania
3.0%
26.4%
43.7%
Uganda
5.9%
26.6%
44.0%
Other Africa and Middle East
8.9%
33.6%
28.9%
AMERICAS
11.5%
22.3%
24.5%
Argentina
9.0%
37.3%
32.8%
Brazil
8.7%
31.1%
32.2%
Canada
9.3%
16.0%
27.7%
USA
12.6%
21.8%
22.0%
Other Americas
.7%
22.3%
45.6%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
6.6%
25.3%
30.5%
Australia
7.2%
16.3%
21.1%
China including Hong Kong
9.7%
29.5%
24.0%
India
4.4%
32.3%
34.7%
Japan
6.8%
25.3%
30.2%
New Zealand
2.5%
17.5%
21.9%
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
7.4%
27.0%
40.7%
EUROPE
11.7%
24.0%
24.4%
Austria
9.5%
19.1%
22.7%
Belgium
7.8%
22.1%
24.0%
Denmark
23.5%
19.7%
21.0%
France
7.0%
22.8%
31.4%
Germany
15.1%
24.1%
24.9%
Italy
5.3%
22.1%
29.0%
Netherlands
14.1%
22.4%
15.3%
Russian Fed
Spain
1.7%
16.7%
44.1%
Sweden
6.1%
24.3%
34.3%
Switzerland
11.6%
23.6%
20.4%
UK
12.4%
25.1%
22.4%
Other Europe
13.3%
22.8%
23.7%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
10.3%
33.5%
31.7%
Notes:
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45-54 years
55-64 years
65+ years
13.5%
15.5%
12.0%
19.5%
7.2%
24.6%
4.2%
17.1%
19.4%
17.1%
14.2%
25.9%
28.9%
17.0%
15.5%
18.7%
20.1%
18.9%
13.3%
18.1%
13.7%
17.4%
22.5%
17.6%
20.0%
21.0%
22.9%
20.5%
18.0%
28.4%
26.6%
4.9%
2.8%
5.2%
4.9%
1.0%
5.0%
2.4%
4.7%
8.2%
4.2%
5.4%
5.5%
3.6%
1.1%
2.2%
1.0%
2.6%
1.5%
3.8%
4.8%
2.2%
6.2%
12.8%
3.9%
5.5%
13.5%
14.1%
6.0%
7.8%
12.1%
8.6%
6.9%
3.1%
15.9%
5.6%
18.7%
.8%
1.6%
.8%
11.6%
20.8%
18.8%
27.3%
24.6%
18.3%
19.5%
16.5%
25.1%
25.0%
2.6%
10.4%
3.9%
12.3%
9.8%
11.1%
9.9%
7.2%
8.9%
7.2%
15.3%
4.5%
3.8%
5.3%
7.4%
6.7%
9.1%
15.1%
21.2%
22.4%
16.6%
19.9%
14.7%
10.6%
11.6%
12.3%
11.7%
9.8%
5.9%
9.0%
2.5%
6.9%
7.8%
6.8%
3.0%
2.4%
.5%
4.2%
1.2%
1.2%
.7%
2.1%
2.7%
7.3%
7.2%
8.7%
1.3. Appendix 3: Purpose of visit
PURPOSE OF VISIT: ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2015
Leisure
Business
Medical
Religion
AFRICA LAND
62.4%
23.9%
3.2%
2.6%
Botswana
56.6%
26.4%
3.7%
4.9%
Lesotho
61.4%
13.6%
4.5%
3.3%
Malawi
44.8%
48.4%
3.8%
1.2%
Mozambique
62.7%
31.3%
2.5%
1.2%
Namibia
56.6%
24.1%
4.6%
2.1%
Swaziland
69.6%
12.9%
4.2%
4.1%
Zambia
34.8%
56.6%
1.1%
2.8%
Zimbabwe
65.7%
27.0%
1.9%
1.7%
AFRICA AIR
42.4%
38.1%
3.7%
2.4%
Angola
55.9%
19.7%
10.8%
0.9%
Democratic Republic of Congo
44.8%
26.6%
9.6%
1.1%
Ethiopia
21.9%
58.4%
1.9%
1.9%
Ghana
28.4%
45.0%
7.4%
Kenya
16.6%
63.7%
Nigeria
45.6%
34.1%
3.7%
7.9%
Tanzania
52.1%
30.4%
1.9%
Uganda
24.1%
49.4%
4.8%
4.9%
Other Africa and Middle East
40.9%
45.3%
1.0%
AMERICAS
68.0%
18.7%
0.4%
1.6%
Argentina
41.3%
47.6%
Brazil
59.5%
31.7%
0.6%
Canada
73.3%
19.0%
1.2%
USA
68.6%
16.8%
1.8%
Other Americas
55.2%
38.2%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
56.7%
39.8%
0.2%
0.5%
Australia
79.4%
18.5%
China including Hong Kong
51.4%
47.4%
India
35.3%
60.3%
1.4%
Japan
52.0%
47.4%
New Zealand
71.6%
20.0%
1.1%
South Korea
71.8%
17.5%
Other Asia and Australasia
53.0%
41.6%
1.2%
EUROPE
65.8%
27.8%
0.3%
0.3%
Austria
71.3%
27.4%
Belgium
66.0%
25.9%
Denmark
61.7%
31.5%
France
67.8%
28.0%
0.5%
Germany
70.1%
24.4%
0.9%
Italy
46.8%
45.4%
Netherlands
75.8%
17.9%
Russian Fed
25.8%
64.2%
5.8%
Spain
45.1%
46.2%
Sweden
62.9%
24.0%
1.2%
Switzerland
71.1%
20.2%
UK
69.2%
25.0%
Other Europe
47.6%
41.9%
0.9%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
62.1%
25.1%
2.7%
2.3%
Notes:
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Other
7.9%
8.3%
17.2%
1.9%
2.3%
12.6%
9.1%
4.6%
3.7%
13.4%
12.6%
18.0%
15.8%
19.2%
19.7%
8.7%
15.6%
16.8%
12.2%
11.3%
11.1%
8.2%
6.3%
12.4%
6.6%
2.7%
1.6%
1.2%
3.1%
0.6%
7.2%
10.7%
4.1%
5.9%
1.2%
8.0%
6.8%
3.4%
4.5%
7.8%
5.8%
4.2%
8.7%
11.9%
8.4%
5.4%
9.3%
7.8%
PURPOSE OF VISIT: ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2014
Leisure
Business
Medical
Religion
AFRICA LAND
76.9%
14.8%
2.8%
0.8%
Botswana
52.1%
32.5%
3.7%
4.6%
Lesotho
89.4%
6.4%
0.9%
Malawi
38.4%
58.6%
Mozambique
82.7%
7.0%
4.8%
Namibia
52.0%
29.2%
8.7%
Swaziland
84.8%
7.7%
Zambia
33.7%
55.4%
2.4%
3.3%
Zimbabwe
77.1%
15.6%
3.5%
0.9%
AFRICA AIR
37.6%
44.4%
2.5%
1.9%
Angola
42.0%
40.4%
2.9%
Democratic Republic of Congo
38.5%
48.9%
4.7%
1.4%
Ethiopia
31.4%
52.0%
3.4%
Ghana
34.4%
52.2%
2.7%
1.4%
Kenya
22.0%
55.1%
3.9%
1.4%
Nigeria
41.1%
42.6%
3.3%
2.8%
Tanzania
24.1%
49.0%
3.3%
1.3%
Uganda
30.1%
46.9%
2.7%
1.4%
Other Africa and Middle East
41.9%
40.7%
0.7%
3.0%
AMERICAS
61.1%
24.0%
0.0%
0.1%
Argentina
46.2%
43.8%
Brazil
50.7%
37.5%
Canada
68.8%
22.3%
USA
62.5%
21.4%
Other Americas
36.6%
45.2%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
51.2%
42.9%
0.2%
0.3%
Australia
76.5%
17.5%
0.6%
0.7%
China including Hong Kong
51.0%
43.8%
India
36.8%
59.6%
Japan
29.5%
63.4%
New Zealand
64.9%
31.2%
South Korea
30.5%
61.6%
0.7%
Other Asia and Australasia
41.2%
48.3%
EUROPE
64.6%
27.5%
0.2%
0.2%
Austria
67.4%
27.6%
Belgium
53.3%
38.9%
Denmark
75.2%
14.9%
France
53.3%
36.1%
Germany
66.2%
23.8%
Italy
48.3%
47.7%
Netherlands
70.8%
22.0%
Russian Fed
24.7%
64.5%
0.5%
Spain
59.9%
34.3%
Sweden
54.1%
30.5%
Switzerland
62.6%
27.6%
1.1%
UK
71.7%
22.2%
0.5%
Other Europe
62.6%
28.8%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
72.5%
18.7%
2.3%
0.7%
Notes:
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Other
4.7%
7.1%
3.2%
2.2%
5.5%
10.1%
7.3%
5.2%
2.9%
13.5%
14.7%
6.5%
13.2%
9.3%
17.5%
10.2%
22.2%
18.9%
13.7%
14.8%
10.0%
11.5%
8.9%
16.1%
18.2%
5.4%
4.6%
4.9%
3.2%
7.1%
3.8%
7.3%
10.5%
7.5%
5.0%
7.4%
10.0%
10.2%
10.0%
4.0%
7.2%
10.4%
5.8%
15.4%
8.6%
5.2%
8.6%
5.7%
PURPOSE OF VISIT: ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2013
Leisure
Business
Medical
Religion
AFRICA LAND
66.9%
23.2%
2.5%
0.7%
Botswana
37.1%
39.3%
7.4%
3.0%
Lesotho
73.4%
18.3%
1.7%
Malawi
33.5%
62.3%
Mozambique
75.9%
17.1%
3.0%
Namibia
43.0%
31.3%
7.9%
Swaziland
77.2%
10.6%
0.9%
Zambia
24.5%
66.0%
1.3%
2.4%
Zimbabwe
68.8%
23.9%
2.1%
1.0%
AFRICA AIR
39.6%
46.8%
2.8%
1.1%
Angola
42.1%
35.6%
6.1%
1.8%
Democratic Republic of Congo
38.3%
49.9%
6.1%
0.9%
Ethiopia
22.9%
70.0%
2.1%
Ghana
37.2%
47.0%
5.0%
Kenya
20.3%
67.1%
2.2%
Nigeria
44.6%
43.7%
1.7%
2.7%
Tanzania
22.4%
57.3%
5.2%
Uganda
37.9%
48.5%
3.4%
Other Africa and Middle East
47.3%
42.7%
0.5%
AMERICAS
59.6%
28.3%
0.2%
0.7%
Argentina
50.2%
41.5%
Brazil
42.7%
49.3%
Canada
69.0%
23.7%
USA
61.2%
25.2%
0.9%
Other Americas
45.1%
46.7%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
49.8%
45.3%
0.2%
0.2%
Australia
68.0%
26.7%
0.6%
China including Hong Kong
49.9%
44.9%
India
38.2%
57.2%
Japan
37.0%
56.2%
0.8%
New Zealand
66.6%
32.4%
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
48.7%
45.7%
EUROPE
58.3%
35.3%
0.2%
Austria
48.2%
49.8%
Belgium
43.9%
47.1%
1.2%
Denmark
68.1%
23.7%
France
45.0%
48.5%
Germany
55.3%
35.6%
Italy
49.4%
49.0%
Netherlands
63.3%
27.9%
Russian Fed
Spain
39.9%
55.7%
Sweden
49.3%
42.4%
Switzerland
60.4%
31.3%
UK
69.9%
25.2%
Other Europe
50.3%
42.3%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
64.0%
26.4%
2.1%
0.6%
Notes:
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6.6%
13.1%
6.1%
4.0%
4.0%
17.6%
11.3%
5.9%
4.2%
9.7%
14.3%
4.8%
5.0%
10.9%
10.4%
7.3%
15.1%
10.2%
9.2%
11.2%
8.3%
8.0%
7.0%
12.5%
8.2%
4.5%
4.4%
5.2%
4.3%
6.0%
1.0%
5.3%
6.3%
1.9%
7.8%
8.2%
6.5%
9.0%
1.6%
8.5%
4.4%
8.3%
8.3%
4.7%
7.4%
6.8%
1.4. Appendix 4: Repeat rate
REPEATER RATE: ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2015
First time
2-3 times
4-5 times
6-9 times
AFRICA LAND
1.9%
10.7%
11.1%
15.8%
Botswana
1.4%
3.9%
2.5%
9.0%
Lesotho
1.3%
3.4%
4.2%
7.0%
Malawi
10.0%
12.2%
20.4%
14.0%
Mozambique
1.2%
15.7%
13.2%
17.4%
Namibia
3.4%
10.2%
20.7%
26.3%
Swaziland
4.1%
10.2%
23.6%
Zambia
4.6%
14.4%
12.7%
20.8%
Zimbabwe
2.8%
17.1%
15.3%
17.2%
AFRICA AIR
35.0%
23.6%
14.3%
10.6%
Angola
23.7%
24.1%
13.8%
9.7%
Democratic Republic of Congo
37.4%
24.2%
15.7%
16.0%
Ethiopia
29.9%
25.5%
18.3%
10.0%
Ghana
51.1%
21.0%
9.4%
12.7%
Kenya
29.3%
29.2%
15.4%
12.6%
Nigeria
42.1%
23.9%
13.3%
9.7%
Tanzania
17.2%
12.9%
26.0%
11.6%
Uganda
33.8%
31.3%
12.0%
8.4%
Other Africa and Middle East
41.4%
24.8%
11.1%
9.6%
AMERICAS
63.3%
17.9%
6.3%
6.5%
Argentina
66.8%
4.6%
11.0%
16.1%
Brazil
56.5%
22.3%
7.6%
8.3%
Canada
61.7%
20.1%
6.3%
5.4%
USA
64.0%
17.4%
6.1%
6.5%
Other Americas
67.3%
16.1%
8.8%
2.9%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
48.4%
26.2%
10.0%
8.6%
Australia
35.5%
26.1%
14.5%
14.4%
China including Hong Kong
57.7%
28.7%
3.7%
4.6%
India
58.2%
21.3%
8.5%
6.5%
Japan
59.2%
22.4%
8.0%
2.5%
New Zealand
31.1%
37.8%
14.5%
11.1%
South Korea
46.6%
36.3%
10.7%
6.4%
Other Asia and Australasia
44.2%
27.3%
11.9%
8.7%
EUROPE
46.6%
22.3%
10.5%
10.5%
Austria
41.6%
43.5%
3.5%
3.0%
Belgium
61.8%
13.5%
2.6%
13.2%
Denmark
66.3%
15.6%
6.4%
4.8%
France
51.5%
25.6%
11.1%
7.4%
Germany
48.8%
25.0%
9.8%
8.9%
Italy
57.4%
19.3%
8.2%
7.8%
Netherlands
43.5%
24.4%
10.8%
16.1%
Russian Fed
54.2%
27.9%
7.9%
7.9%
Spain
61.7%
21.3%
12.2%
0.8%
Sweden
57.8%
23.2%
10.7%
6.7%
Switzerland
45.6%
22.2%
15.4%
9.4%
UK
38.2%
19.8%
11.4%
13.8%
Other Europe
51.9%
24.1%
11.2%
5.1%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
12.6%
13.3%
10.8%
14.3%
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10 or more
times
41.6%
83.1%
19.4%
32.5%
47.8%
39.3%
61.6%
34.6%
30.3%
16.3%
28.2%
6.8%
16.3%
5.8%
12.5%
11.0%
32.3%
14.5%
13.2%
5.8%
1.5%
5.3%
6.2%
5.8%
5.0%
6.8%
9.4%
5.3%
5.5%
7.9%
5.5%
8.0%
9.9%
8.3%
9.0%
6.9%
4.2%
7.4%
7.3%
5.1%
2.1%
4.0%
1.5%
7.4%
16.6%
7.6%
34.3%
REPEATER RATE: ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2014
First time
2-3 times
4-5 times
6-9 times
AFRICA LAND
1.0%
2.9%
7.8%
13.6%
Botswana
1.0%
1.3%
1.1%
Lesotho
1.0%
0.9%
5.1%
Malawi
5.9%
5.6%
4.7%
9.3%
Mozambique
1.6%
5.2%
31.8%
56.4%
Namibia
1.7%
11.1%
7.6%
7.8%
Swaziland
1.1%
0.7%
2.0%
Zambia
6.9%
11.8%
7.8%
3.4%
Zimbabwe
0.8%
2.5%
3.4%
4.4%
AFRICA AIR
23.4%
37.7%
23.9%
7.8%
Angola
16.9%
35.8%
24.5%
11.1%
Democratic Republic of Congo
12.8%
33.0%
27.8%
15.4%
Ethiopia
24.5%
30.1%
27.7%
6.6%
Ghana
31.9%
41.4%
11.1%
10.1%
Kenya
15.4%
44.4%
23.6%
8.4%
Nigeria
22.2%
33.6%
29.4%
6.0%
Tanzania
20.1%
48.4%
21.4%
5.4%
Uganda
19.2%
40.8%
27.3%
6.7%
Other Africa and Middle East
31.2%
37.4%
21.7%
5.9%
AMERICAS
63.5%
21.3%
7.9%
4.4%
Argentina
36.4%
44.2%
17.3%
2.1%
Brazil
49.4%
37.2%
6.4%
5.1%
Canada
65.7%
21.8%
8.7%
2.4%
USA
65.4%
18.6%
7.8%
4.8%
Other Americas
63.3%
24.8%
8.6%
2.4%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
41.8%
33.8%
14.4%
6.7%
Australia
34.5%
31.8%
17.3%
11.4%
China including Hong Kong
46.2%
34.0%
13.0%
5.9%
India
45.9%
30.3%
15.6%
4.6%
Japan
36.8%
38.3%
12.6%
7.9%
New Zealand
44.0%
34.0%
11.8%
7.0%
South Korea
32.1%
46.5%
18.7%
1.3%
Other Asia and Australasia
45.5%
38.6%
9.7%
3.3%
EUROPE
51.0%
22.1%
12.6%
8.6%
Austria
60.7%
26.1%
5.8%
5.9%
Belgium
50.3%
23.8%
13.1%
5.9%
Denmark
72.7%
13.2%
5.8%
5.0%
France
58.1%
25.3%
8.6%
4.2%
Germany
62.7%
18.1%
10.3%
5.2%
Italy
59.0%
23.1%
7.4%
7.5%
Netherlands
49.8%
23.7%
10.4%
10.8%
Russian Fed
55.5%
27.9%
10.6%
1.5%
Spain
68.5%
16.5%
5.4%
6.9%
Sweden
48.9%
35.1%
12.1%
2.5%
Switzerland
69.8%
12.8%
7.4%
5.9%
UK
35.9%
24.1%
18.6%
12.8%
Other Europe
55.1%
19.5%
10.7%
8.3%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
11.1%
8.1%
9.1%
12.2%
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
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10 or more
times
74.7%
96.5%
92.8%
74.5%
5.0%
71.8%
96.0%
70.1%
89.0%
7.2%
11.7%
11.0%
11.1%
5.5%
8.1%
8.8%
4.6%
6.1%
3.8%
2.9%
0.0%
1.8%
1.4%
3.4%
0.9%
3.3%
4.9%
0.9%
3.5%
4.4%
3.2%
1.4%
2.9%
5.8%
1.5%
6.9%
3.3%
3.7%
3.7%
2.9%
5.4%
4.6%
2.7%
1.4%
4.1%
8.7%
6.4%
59.4%
REPEATER RATE: ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2013
First time
2-3 times
4-5 times
6-9 times
AFRICA LAND
1.4%
4.8%
9.9%
10.3%
Botswana
1.0%
3.1%
1.6%
0.8%
Lesotho
1.5%
1.6%
4.8%
Malawi
7.9%
12.4%
3.6%
12.0%
Mozambique
1.7%
6.6%
48.2%
37.4%
Namibia
2.8%
18.2%
6.2%
13.0%
Swaziland
0.6%
2.4%
0.7%
Zambia
7.1%
20.1%
11.0%
7.9%
Zimbabwe
1.6%
4.4%
2.8%
6.4%
AFRICA AIR
28.7%
43.4%
16.8%
5.5%
Angola
22.8%
42.9%
21.2%
4.6%
Democratic Republic of Congo
15.3%
52.5%
20.2%
7.1%
Ethiopia
24.3%
54.0%
18.9%
Ghana
28.1%
52.2%
13.5%
3.3%
Kenya
28.7%
40.4%
22.1%
6.5%
Nigeria
25.1%
45.2%
17.6%
5.6%
Tanzania
21.6%
47.5%
21.8%
4.1%
Uganda
21.3%
58.4%
15.8%
3.5%
Other Africa and Middle East
41.7%
34.1%
10.8%
6.6%
AMERICAS
58.4%
27.4%
6.8%
4.2%
Argentina
46.6%
38.3%
14.0%
1.1%
Brazil
51.8%
33.8%
12.5%
0.6%
Canada
57.9%
24.4%
9.4%
4.0%
USA
59.6%
26.7%
5.5%
4.7%
Other Americas
59.9%
30.8%
5.9%
3.4%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
48.8%
33.5%
9.5%
5.2%
Australia
42.0%
34.4%
11.1%
7.5%
China including Hong Kong
71.2%
23.2%
3.3%
1.8%
India
39.8%
36.5%
13.1%
6.2%
Japan
32.1%
46.2%
15.8%
2.8%
New Zealand
42.0%
35.2%
14.8%
7.1%
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
47.5%
35.5%
7.9%
6.6%
EUROPE
46.1%
27.6%
10.5%
8.5%
Austria
48.8%
29.1%
7.9%
4.2%
Belgium
44.9%
28.7%
12.3%
10.7%
Denmark
59.0%
24.6%
8.7%
3.9%
France
47.7%
31.9%
10.0%
7.6%
Germany
47.8%
28.8%
10.3%
7.4%
Italy
55.7%
25.6%
6.2%
7.8%
Netherlands
49.3%
23.8%
10.5%
9.9%
Russian Fed
Spain
58.7%
22.7%
13.9%
1.7%
Sweden
54.1%
30.4%
7.5%
6.9%
Switzerland
51.7%
26.0%
10.2%
5.0%
UK
38.0%
26.7%
12.2%
11.0%
Other Europe
51.8%
27.3%
9.4%
7.4%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
11.4%
10.6%
10.0%
9.5%
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
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10 or more
times
73.6%
93.6%
91.9%
64.1%
6.1%
59.8%
95.9%
54.1%
84.9%
5.6%
8.4%
4.9%
2.9%
3.0%
2.3%
6.4%
5.0%
1.1%
6.7%
3.2%
1.3%
4.3%
3.5%
3.0%
5.0%
4.3%
3.1%
0.9%
2.5%
7.2%
9.9%
3.3%
3.8%
2.8%
5.7%
4.7%
6.5%
3.0%
1.1%
7.1%
12.2%
4.0%
58.5%
Appendix 5: Length of stay
1.5. Appendix 6: Accommodation usage
ACCOMMODATION USAGE - ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2015
Hotels
Guest House
B&B
Self catering
Game Lodge
Backpacker
Camping
Train/ship
Hospital
Friends and
family
Other
AFRICA LAND
685 567
292 010
114 238
388 713
63 668
301 561
84 742
448
135 728
8 924 337
1 055 949
Botswana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozambique
Namibia
Swaziland
Zambia
Zimbabwe
73 110
43 095
47 632
77 624
42 043
59 320
130 507
212 236
48 668
12 044
4 101
80 723
51 067
38 706
12 988
43 713
7 594
5 156
385
33 342
20 803
27 871
12 475
6 612
30 811
45 587
2 147
29 425
19 020
47 644
8 435
205 644
10 052
1 479
348
14 628
4 666
19 002
2 778
10 714
366
43 316
1 770
46 402
4 839
2 295
652
23 992
202 573
19 221
6 003
6 608
6 599
21 667
16 832
9 755
6 817
16 821
4 062
59 486
21 956
365 980
3 413 283
226 749
1 510 551
171 080
896 746
108 667
2 231 282
38 598
142 680
1 169
71 060
113 093
348 190
25 030
316 128
AFRICA AIR
270 182
73 862
18 619
84 752
9 488
25 013
107
2 278
382 510
92 093
24 739
59 127
3 532
9 691
18 434
52 730
14 791
6 702
80 435
23 212
10 458
1 700
617
4 758
8 733
3 573
1 506
19 305
1 185
7 917
464
11 064
206
269
323
109
3 220
1 335
2 015
437
187
10 165
5 923
6 774
13 115
3 179
15 697
31 683
158
877
254
112
662
1 179
8 358
1 080
6 247
5 385
50 702
64 589
4 330
16 342
18 073
68 931
54 560
9 140
95 841
13 568
746
254
6 689
3 611
22 210
3 819
3 704
37 493
AMERICAS
329 616
105 567
50 638
263 493
139 659
90 546
338 973
262 180
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
USA
Other Americas
2 843
30 270
32 763
255 248
8 492
395
435
24 758
76 554
3 426
786
4 444
45 028
380
10 894
15 585
236 300
714
520
5 848
20 843
109 266
3 182
2 890
10 342
74 062
3 252
181
3 659
20 673
104
288
1 566
3 918
20 307
45 596
255 583
13 569
2 171
22 438
8 779
220 670
8 122
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
347 069
85 040
19 554
213 556
50 040
22 298
10 397
3 800
200
456 349
130 322
Australia
China including Hong Kong
India
Japan
New Zealand
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
58 492
101 458
118 964
18 759
8 039
7 930
33 427
7 410
13 081
37 615
1 731
8 889
1 129
15 186
6 191
1 993
6 948
1 901
1 317
504
700
35 394
2 297
167 325
1 135
1 400
36 585
2 110
5 174
765
3 550
2 817
8 783
5 645
4 605
6 792
324
6 004
1 765
360
3 225
200
176 367
30 659
80 309
7 429
39 282
34 859
87 445
16 716
10 065
72 715
109
5 360
19 144
6 212
EUROPE
637 619
271 810
114 268
435 381
211 684
302 420
5 670
2 288
1 008 380
468 843
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Russian Fed
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
Other Europe
9 905
32 027
8 443
81 220
105 539
28 485
54 371
2 038
14 409
13 401
20 887
195 815
71 079
8 624
13 613
1 047
29 998
61 239
10 232
22 891
1 429
7 260
2 940
7 107
23 537
2 114
19 163
6 773
4 451
4 335
74 191
34 401
12 332
3 290
2 194
26 648
6 238
20 779
22 173
4 683
27 308
87 432
40 096
58 949
339
3 795
16 880
5 644
125 764
21 538
1 213
6 827
5 998
30 204
42 007
7 413
22 692
478
4 273
2 231
8 767
65 303
14 278
11 763
13 703
2 399
29 595
81 763
3 490
45 223
231
16 071
15 360
11 390
60 808
10 624
20 222
41 116
9 810
58 278
131 677
25 765
80 672
7 846
8 343
6 489
36 590
425 627
155 944
302
14 268
6 413
46 640
128 480
4 099
52 759
3 686
16 348
2 778
21 676
125 332
46 060
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
2 270 053
Angola
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Other Africa and Middle East
828 288
317 316
1 385 894
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
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448
202
295
474 538
24 618
1 854
171
1 242
2 266
741 838
91 073
2 987
2 104
4 751
30 653
3 169
5 504
643
1 391
1 723
29 875
8 274
210 938
548
1 571
1 065
4 582
11 811
101
140 494
11 110 549
2 009 387
ACCOMMODATION USAGE - ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2014
Hotels
Guest House
B&B
Self catering
Game Lodge
Backpacker
Camping
AFRICA LAND
Botswana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozambique
Namibia
Swaziland
Zambia
Zimbabwe
665 643
38 653
6 535
83 669
250 461
37 955
12 460
89 727
146 184
740 725
28 795
3 723
11 556
180 503
34 483
948
13 897
466 822
228 739
12 723
1 773
2 436
10 761
7 100
3 192
11 281
179 473
153 216
17 209
793
34 520
4 183
134
460
13 391
896
275
592
14 589
53 941
488
30 546
458
49 173
4 626
1 157
827
15 838
11 199
AFRICA AIR
Angola
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Other Africa and Middle East
185 316
28 303
11 876
3 319
10 279
21 477
37 336
12 371
6 119
54 236
99 071
22 467
2 102
1 206
10 179
8 606
23 263
10 101
2 330
18 816
39 667
8 207
3 550
846
2 439
3 235
8 042
1 755
1 610
9 982
11 628
417
9 161
623
341
268
601
396
1 976
307
896
3 753
9 610
626
387
AMERICAS
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
USA
Other Americas
317 025
5 211
31 492
34 747
235 313
10 263
117 153
696
13 656
18 471
81 053
3 277
105 780
825
5 765
16 979
79 172
3 039
160 304
106 303
566
4 201
16 086
84 593
858
206 517
21 809
305
11 564
8 483
185 928
541
758
2 751
18 301
215
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
Australia
China including Hong Kong
India
Japan
New Zealand
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
329 098
58 130
72 089
115 510
18 555
9 653
7 388
47 773
158 445
32 470
30 218
67 406
8 228
2 588
5 981
11 553
74 795
23 537
6 853
32 640
1 670
1 052
1 257
7 785
61 272
13 225
13 592
31 587
339
36 796
17 245
4 903
7 436
1 810
2 975
444
1 983
16 261
6 258
1 367
5 914
1 185
4 270
1 776
14 450
911
9 258
EUROPE
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Russian Fed
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
Other Europe
582 154
7 109
15 839
10 256
70 202
114 331
41 098
28 803
6 903
16 565
7 588
15 710
189 407
58 343
367 556
5 744
10 548
9 681
44 794
87 943
19 136
35 993
2 333
15 251
3 557
15 581
92 027
24 967
240 332
2 394
7 105
6 380
16 094
58 133
5 803
21 520
739
5 370
3 978
19 854
53 506
39 456
259 587
11 434
6 786
11 038
74 363
35 535
22 323
1 990
5 397
13 285
7 811
49 220
20 405
155 690
3 402
3 455
5 695
19 938
32 200
5 539
20 273
855
2 711
9 788
5 286
32 178
14 369
225 933
3 235
7 496
9 804
24 946
30 789
4 165
30 774
861
14 749
2 502
5 974
71 434
19 202
36 502
443
502
165
5 349
8 849
754
8 457
197
976
1 384
329
7 431
1 665
3 301
3 439
1 124
2 079 236
1 482 950
689 313
646 007
342 471
512 262
112 141
24 909
21 545
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
62 492
24 374
498
1 923
45 926
150
617
2 543
547
7 356
4 424
24 426
129 564
1 890
780
1 750
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
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Train/ship
Hospital
15 016
1 527
489
555 679
60 295
5 014
264
19 684
82 619
370 526
318 180
35 350
28 987
8 928
26 638
11 201
75 815
19 007
12 788
99 466
37 883
9 595
366 415
861
12 043
42 219
284 242
27 050
158 384
1 276
593
683
447 188
150 849
72 234
93 525
13 992
26 633
8 690
81 264
65 124
13 993
20 299
29 578
530
10 459
1 726
1 411
296
571
871 502
8 640
24 142
3 553
58 410
124 036
19 834
54 385
2 967
16 047
17 176
13 232
435 072
94 008
439 255
11 423
7 490
3 664
55 191
113 242
2 936
14 406
805
1 688
11 127 240
1 256 325
1 314
9 105
142
144
2 295
3 222
647
904
133
133
700
1 179
334
203
493
7 384
430
1 537
Other
9 123 955
197 741
3 707 587
173 965
1 498 896
98 961
2 227 480
180 301
1 039 025
37 974
847
720
Friends and
family
155
5 037
723
1 290
17 277
258
1 835
662
25 532
280
5 838
133 570
18 696
526
198
3 509
155 844
69 059
ACCOMMODATION USAGE - ALL FOREIGN VISITORS
2013
Friends and
family
Hotels
Guest House
B&B
Self catering
Game Lodge
Backpacker
Camping
Train/ship
Hospital
AFRICA LAND
Botswana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozambique
Namibia
Swaziland
Zambia
Zimbabwe
872 922
66 769
46 949
85 374
303 892
37 112
20 140
102 158
210 526
592 990
16 496
15 842
20 526
92 686
29 054
7 523
24 282
386 581
195 304
6 237
22 069
3 005
21 543
10 143
13 374
9 128
109 805
249 684
34 025
13 870
1 640
29 162
54 272
3 392
11 866
101 457
72 531
5 578
133 046
9 560
49 917
23 112
1 022
26 666
7 019
6 864
18 122
2 368
5 587
40 627
912
4 368
2 700
15 133
AFRICA AIR
Angola
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Other Africa and Middle East
170 305
12 482
8 981
4 727
8 774
15 004
44 044
11 597
5 703
58 993
77 051
11 491
2 988
960
3 595
5 732
18 692
3 425
1 048
29 119
34 576
4 529
3 371
327
2 729
3 523
7 922
2 125
814
9 235
87 118
20 132
113
1 574
2 203
1 092
335
899
11 483
1 226
1 865
506
339
1 562
575
663
595
4 152
16 751
5 305
AMERICAS
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
USA
Other Americas
315 311
8 142
34 877
28 296
231 531
12 465
126 441
668
8 514
14 277
99 757
3 225
68 349
879
4 370
4 995
57 963
142
129 183
57 816
1 737
5 032
6 299
44 747
12 472
130
492
12 216
116 263
213
113 416
411
4 276
13 324
94 386
1 019
855
4 427
7 191
130
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
Australia
China including Hong Kong
India
Japan
New Zealand
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
450 415
87 781
79 479
152 753
14 306
15 579
174 928
19 582
37 642
88 388
12 871
3 076
63 988
22 255
15 896
14 095
3 143
728
110 502
12 914
8 607
77 244
1 719
1 258
39 491
13 652
6 394
10 345
2 636
3 382
45 013
20 498
1 171
16 974
1 171
13 308
3 020
1 719
5 250
2 765
371
85 527
12 445
6 948
8 760
3 082
5 198
183
9 075
742
39 572
4 146
EUROPE
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Russian Fed
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
UK
Other Europe
653 002
12 844
20 509
22 635
68 325
109 853
33 348
43 726
257 217
3 216
7 939
3 686
32 502
32 127
17 415
24 169
147 448
1 155
3 597
737
7 872
35 400
3 112
15 996
489 008
7 316
9 999
12 398
56 821
112 139
3 935
53 557
120 613
1 203
5 083
7 976
13 637
18 527
6 958
10 267
107 486
501
3 851
5 654
15 003
26 244
1 373
17 168
27 765
616
8 870
1 070
3 259
5 963
461
4 832
3 198
1 188
705
826 462
12 273
12 035
11 114
35 568
95 777
28 265
66 409
373 224
13 047
7 920
5 796
20 329
90 651
20 148
42 398
23 250
13 158
20 607
197 652
77 893
6 342
5 176
8 892
75 933
32 757
2 897
1 065
5 392
47 209
23 018
7 043
11 431
15 048
125 434
73 886
1 025
4 055
4 405
35 874
11 603
944
3 356
23 184
10 209
857
1 849
8 876
986
3 779
8 244
13 251
25 526
438 124
76 915
11 911
104 101
50 584
2 461 955
1 228 628
509 667
1 065 495
357 534
360 112
81 963
19 881
9 644 757
1 459 660
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
60 694
Notes:
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5 527
6 660
495
3 290
50 889
9 237
926
1 022
220
3 142
3 728
3 128
1 976
7 453
4 581
1 853
1 884
146
655
3 901
1 383
6 589
9 989
914
742
1 070
33 188
Other
7 799 428
224 300
3 269 170
258 750
915 713
96 511
1 620 096
143 975
1 270 913
751 828
64 941
127 779
365 625
52 399
26 428
5 385
36 271
27 037
98 763
15 262
10 642
93 436
62 216
16 658
285 648
3 328
21 355
44 353
209 161
7 451
219 333
1 276
2 978
21 275
191 927
1 877
367 594
113 572
82 758
75 472
12 451
40 309
53 059
18 399
20 578
9 661
152
124
49 530
59 340
344 808
2 470
102 960
1 242
2 389
238
41 689
6 337
1.6. Appendix 7: Provincial distribution
1.6.1. Share of arrivals
PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION - SHARE OF ARRIVALS*
2015
Gauteng
Western Cape
Eastern Cape Kwazulu Natal
AFRICA LAND
37.2%
2.8%
0.7%
7.8%
Botswana
42.8%
1.1%
0.9%
3.2%
Lesotho
22.9%
1.9%
1.0%
3.0%
Malawi
81.1%
5.8%
1.4%
7.5%
Mozambique
62.7%
3.3%
Namibia
30.7%
43.0%
2.0%
3.3%
Swaziland
15.6%
0.6%
0.8%
35.3%
Zambia
82.4%
2.9%
2.7%
14.7%
Zimbabwe
34.7%
1.7%
2.8%
AFRICA AIR
74.4%
21.4%
3.7%
9.4%
Angola
75.8%
20.7%
1.0%
2.5%
Democratic Republic of Congo
89.3%
15.9%
1.2%
5.6%
Ethiopia
83.9%
8.0%
1.9%
8.0%
Ghana
78.8%
12.1%
1.2%
10.6%
Kenya
74.9%
19.7%
3.9%
7.9%
Nigeria
86.6%
10.0%
2.4%
5.5%
Tanzania
67.4%
12.1%
1.4%
29.1%
Uganda
79.6%
14.4%
6.1%
7.2%
Other Africa and Middle East
62.8%
36.7%
7.4%
10.0%
AMERICAS
49.8%
52.5%
9.1%
14.1%
Argentina
56.8%
34.7%
6.4%
8.0%
Brazil
62.7%
50.1%
9.9%
7.6%
Canada
42.8%
53.6%
13.6%
16.6%
USA
49.5%
52.5%
8.4%
14.5%
Other Americas
56.6%
61.4%
8.3%
7.3%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
58.8%
47.0%
6.9%
15.5%
Australia
54.1%
49.1%
12.9%
23.8%
China including Hong Kong
57.8%
52.3%
1.4%
6.4%
India
75.0%
37.4%
4.2%
13.5%
Japan
43.8%
61.1%
10.8%
18.7%
New Zealand
62.2%
55.6%
7.8%
10.6%
South Korea
46.4%
57.5%
15.5%
17.2%
Other Asia and Australasia
44.0%
42.3%
4.1%
16.0%
EUROPE
40.9%
58.7%
13.0%
17.1%
Austria
31.1%
60.2%
34.2%
15.5%
Belgium
43.6%
62.8%
16.7%
19.3%
Denmark
30.2%
51.1%
5.4%
8.6%
France
48.6%
60.6%
5.9%
25.9%
Germany
39.2%
67.0%
22.5%
23.3%
Italy
48.4%
54.3%
8.2%
6.1%
Netherlands
41.9%
65.9%
17.5%
19.9%
Russian Fed
54.2%
57.9%
10.0%
Spain
42.9%
53.7%
12.9%
10.9%
Sweden
30.3%
58.7%
17.7%
7.9%
Switzerland
39.9%
70.4%
15.5%
15.5%
UK
37.1%
53.6%
10.4%
14.6%
Other Europe
47.5%
52.6%
8.9%
12.1%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
40.3%
13.0%
2.7%
9.4%
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Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Northern Cape
Free State
16.5%
2.0%
1.4%
7.0%
38.7%
0.9%
48.5%
4.8%
7.4%
2.1%
0.8%
16.2%
0.6%
1.3%
0.7%
3.5%
0.9%
0.5%
5.8%
51.5%
1.5%
0.8%
12.2%
74.4%
7.3%
5.4%
5.2%
12.6%
1.5%
10.2%
5.9%
3.0%
1.5%
1.4%
15.4%
1.6%
67.5%
1.0%
3.6%
1.0%
1.7%
0.7%
16.7%
0.9%
1.7%
1.2%
2.4%
0.7%
2.3%
2.5%
5.0%
19.9%
11.0%
25.1%
18.5%
19.8%
17.6%
10.8%
24.9%
0.7%
8.9%
3.1%
15.5%
2.0%
3.1%
18.1%
19.1%
17.0%
15.4%
28.4%
21.7%
19.3%
24.8%
4.2%
17.6%
11.3%
20.9%
12.5%
15.1%
16.1%
1.2%
2.3%
8.4%
4.7%
10.2%
8.4%
14.6%
3.8%
5.6%
3.8%
2.7%
1.3%
8.4%
2.3%
4.6%
1.2%
6.8%
4.8%
1.0%
3.6%
3.1%
6.5%
6.5%
3.5%
7.8%
6.7%
8.2%
5.3%
17.7%
9.0%
3.3%
5.8%
18.6%
3.9%
3.6%
2.1%
7.3%
5.3%
3.1%
0.8%
1.3%
3.2%
1.2%
2.7%
3.5%
3.4%
4.7%
5.2%
1.4%
4.6%
4.7%
13.7%
1.2%
2.1%
4.5%
3.4%
10.6%
1.9%
2.7%
0.9%
1.1%
1.0%
3.6%
0.5%
2.4%
12.9%
1.8%
3.4%
2.1%
4.2%
1.7%
2.8%
0.9%
1.7%
6.7%
5.0%
2.3%
3.0%
2.2%
0.8%
2.2%
2.2%
1.2%
0.9%
2.5%
3.1%
0.9%
1.1%
3.0%
4.1%
1.7%
14.4%
0.9%
6.4%
1.2%
3.6%
1.6%
6.7%
0.8%
4.0%
1.9%
0.9%
2.1%
7.9%
1.6%
1.2%
0.8%
1.7%
1.7%
12.4%
PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION - SHARE OF ARRIVALS*
2014
Gauteng
Western Cape
Eastern Cape Kwazulu Natal
AFRICA LAND
39.9%
2.7%
0.3%
6.1%
Botswana
39.8%
2.4%
3.0%
Lesotho
32.4%
1.0%
Malawi
87.9%
0.8%
1.7%
2.4%
Mozambique
72.2%
2.3%
0.7%
Namibia
6.2%
45.1%
1.1%
Swaziland
18.7%
32.7%
Zambia
86.7%
2.4%
2.5%
6.8%
Zimbabwe
31.5%
1.6%
2.5%
AFRICA AIR
65.3%
20.8%
3.6%
9.9%
Angola
65.8%
28.1%
1.1%
5.8%
Democratic Republic of Congo
79.9%
11.5%
3.4%
8.9%
Ethiopia
67.6%
11.1%
5.6%
11.1%
Ghana
58.8%
15.1%
6.9%
12.7%
Kenya
72.1%
14.4%
2.7%
9.3%
Nigeria
77.9%
15.2%
1.4%
9.1%
Tanzania
73.8%
9.2%
2.0%
6.8%
Uganda
62.3%
9.4%
7.5%
16.1%
Other Africa and Middle East
51.8%
29.8%
5.8%
12.3%
AMERICAS
40.9%
50.7%
14.1%
14.5%
Argentina
48.5%
45.0%
7.9%
8.9%
Brazil
48.8%
48.2%
7.4%
9.2%
Canada
31.5%
56.3%
17.5%
19.4%
USA
40.9%
50.2%
14.7%
14.7%
Other Americas
48.3%
51.4%
11.0%
8.8%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
46.5%
42.1%
8.3%
16.0%
Australia
41.3%
41.6%
14.1%
15.5%
China including Hong Kong
51.7%
58.0%
4.8%
9.1%
India
53.6%
29.2%
7.5%
23.1%
Japan
39.1%
47.7%
4.6%
10.7%
New Zealand
47.1%
37.0%
9.6%
15.5%
South Korea
48.4%
23.4%
3.5%
15.4%
Other Asia and Australasia
39.1%
46.8%
6.0%
16.6%
EUROPE
29.6%
59.2%
13.2%
13.1%
Austria
25.9%
51.7%
17.6%
11.7%
Belgium
25.4%
54.9%
10.2%
9.2%
Denmark
18.3%
65.3%
26.4%
22.3%
France
31.3%
50.8%
9.6%
16.6%
Germany
28.2%
67.0%
17.6%
15.2%
Italy
45.3%
51.3%
9.1%
8.1%
Netherlands
19.5%
76.3%
19.2%
12.9%
Russian Fed
46.2%
24.2%
8.8%
17.9%
Spain
31.2%
52.3%
14.6%
15.8%
Sweden
39.5%
23.6%
11.8%
14.6%
Switzerland
27.7%
60.7%
21.4%
15.2%
UK
28.2%
61.7%
10.7%
11.2%
Other Europe
34.6%
51.1%
11.4%
12.7%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
40.1%
12.6%
2.6%
7.7%
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Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Northern Cape
Free State
12.2%
20.7%
2.9%
6.1%
51.0%
5.1%
2.9%
1.9%
12.8%
2.5%
58.9%
0.9%
6.7%
1.0%
27.3%
52.5%
47.2%
1.6%
3.2%
1.9%
1.8%
3.3%
6.8%
2.1%
3.2%
6.1%
1.9%
3.3%
17.0%
12.9%
9.2%
18.8%
18.0%
9.4%
7.7%
13.1%
5.2%
5.2%
6.4%
11.4%
3.1%
6.0%
13.2%
18.0%
20.5%
23.2%
18.0%
15.9%
15.5%
12.6%
5.5%
5.3%
20.2%
23.4%
8.5%
12.8%
12.0%
0.8%
1.7%
65.0%
1.4%
0.7%
1.4%
0.8%
3.2%
1.4%
1.6%
0.3%
0.8%
2.0%
0.7%
1.2%
2.3%
2.1%
4.0%
0.7%
0.7%
1.2%
2.6%
0.6%
2.7%
2.8%
2.1%
7.9%
3.3%
4.9%
6.4%
8.8%
2.2%
4.1%
7.1%
2.2%
2.8%
4.4%
4.3%
6.0%
2.8%
4.7%
1.8%
6.8%
13.2%
3.8%
3.6%
6.9%
5.1%
4.5%
6.8%
15.3%
8.1%
3.2%
5.5%
17.2%
2.1%
2.7%
2.3%
4.4%
8.6%
4.3%
4.6%
4.4%
2.6%
8.0%
5.9%
17.9%
5.1%
4.4%
7.0%
9.5%
5.2%
3.5%
5.8%
2.2%
2.5%
4.8%
3.3%
2.3%
4.0%
8.1%
3.7%
8.9%
3.7%
3.3%
2.3%
5.7%
1.3%
0.6%
0.5%
1.0%
2.2%
1.1%
0.5%
1.0%
1.4%
2.2%
1.1%
1.2%
1.3%
0.7%
1.0%
2.1%
1.6%
1.8%
3.4%
1.6%
2.2%
2.2%
2.3%
3.4%
5.0%
6.4%
3.4%
2.2%
0.8%
1.1%
1.8%
1.5%
2.7%
2.4%
1.1%
1.6%
4.7%
1.1%
2.2%
3.4%
1.7%
0.8%
1.1%
2.5%
0.9%
1.6%
1.7%
1.0%
5.1%
4.3%
1.1%
1.1%
4.8%
10.3%
PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION - SHARE OF ARRIVALS*
2013
Gauteng
Western Cape
Eastern Cape Kwazulu Natal
AFRICA LAND
39.8%
3.2%
0.5%
7.0%
Botswana
51.2%
3.7%
4.9%
Lesotho
39.2%
2.3%
0.6%
2.6%
Malawi
85.3%
3.3%
5.8%
Mozambique
49.6%
2.8%
1.6%
Namibia
11.7%
33.2%
1.1%
1.9%
Swaziland
22.9%
32.8%
Zambia
84.7%
7.2%
3.0%
Zimbabwe
34.8%
1.9%
0.8%
4.0%
AFRICA AIR
61.0%
28.8%
3.1%
8.2%
Angola
61.0%
31.3%
0.5%
4.7%
Democratic Republic of Congo
68.3%
11.3%
2.4%
11.0%
Ethiopia
60.4%
18.5%
3.6%
13.5%
Ghana
66.8%
14.5%
5.1%
3.1%
Kenya
71.7%
13.3%
2.7%
7.6%
Nigeria
75.3%
18.4%
1.9%
8.8%
Tanzania
70.5%
13.2%
3.2%
10.4%
Uganda
61.7%
9.0%
7.6%
11.8%
Other Africa and Middle East
39.1%
57.9%
4.5%
8.7%
AMERICAS
42.1%
44.5%
10.2%
17.3%
Argentina
50.5%
49.6%
11.1%
9.5%
Brazil
53.4%
49.5%
5.9%
10.9%
Canada
37.3%
46.2%
9.9%
15.7%
USA
41.4%
42.8%
11.1%
18.8%
Other Americas
36.1%
61.8%
2.7%
11.2%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
51.8%
42.6%
7.1%
17.6%
Australia
46.8%
36.6%
12.5%
17.7%
China including Hong Kong
69.2%
64.7%
3.4%
9.3%
India
47.6%
30.0%
4.9%
23.6%
Japan
40.7%
47.7%
4.5%
13.3%
New Zealand
43.7%
41.3%
6.0%
20.7%
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
41.8%
43.0%
7.6%
20.3%
EUROPE
31.8%
54.1%
10.0%
12.9%
Austria
52.7%
40.7%
12.4%
20.3%
Belgium
38.4%
50.8%
9.5%
12.9%
Denmark
28.4%
40.9%
7.7%
16.3%
France
34.8%
44.1%
10.1%
12.9%
Germany
31.8%
56.3%
12.1%
11.2%
Italy
35.7%
43.6%
8.7%
12.3%
Netherlands
32.1%
60.1%
11.9%
15.4%
Russian Fed
Spain
33.5%
50.1%
9.0%
14.0%
Sweden
34.9%
21.7%
14.0%
15.6%
Switzerland
34.1%
47.1%
17.9%
20.8%
UK
25.7%
62.8%
7.8%
11.2%
Other Europe
38.5%
46.0%
11.0%
15.9%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
40.6%
12.5%
2.2%
8.6%
Notes:
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Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Northern Cape
Free State
14.4%
19.8%
1.5%
4.6%
38.3%
5.4%
1.5%
1.8%
12.3%
0.8%
0.8%
1.3%
0.8%
1.9%
1.2%
1.6%
3.6%
1.1%
1.4%
53.7%
0.7%
1.4%
47.4%
1.0%
43.4%
3.5%
2.1%
3.6%
1.8%
7.0%
4.5%
5.1%
4.5%
1.2%
3.0%
1.2%
5.4%
13.0%
5.6%
7.7%
13.0%
14.2%
5.9%
5.8%
9.1%
4.7%
4.9%
5.3%
10.4%
6.0%
0.8%
7.5%
61.8%
1.6%
1.2%
2.5%
4.1%
0.8%
1.0%
3.0%
6.0%
0.7%
7.8%
5.5%
1.8%
5.4%
9.2%
1.1%
2.4%
5.3%
1.2%
1.3%
0.8%
9.2%
3.9%
3.6%
2.9%
3.4%
2.7%
6.5%
4.5%
2.7%
4.6%
11.6%
5.0%
35.1%
4.2%
7.6%
4.0%
10.3%
10.2%
17.7%
9.3%
12.4%
12.1%
10.8%
13.5%
1.0%
4.4%
3.9%
4.3%
16.7%
2.9%
4.2%
5.4%
6.2%
6.1%
3.3%
5.2%
1.5%
5.2%
5.6%
3.2%
1.5%
3.2%
8.7%
22.1%
15.7%
7.3%
7.8%
13.1%
4.5%
7.8%
4.3%
3.5%
5.0%
16.3%
8.2%
4.8%
3.1%
1.9%
4.7%
49.1%
1.4%
0.2%
0.5%
0.8%
2.2%
1.1%
2.2%
3.2%
2.0%
2.9%
1.3%
0.6%
3.7%
0.7%
1.0%
1.8%
0.8%
1.5%
4.1%
0.8%
2.7%
0.5%
1.8%
1.1%
2.1%
1.9%
1.1%
1.4%
2.5%
3.0%
0.8%
2.5%
1.9%
0.6%
1.8%
2.7%
1.2%
2.4%
2.6%
2.2%
0.7%
2.4%
6.0%
3.0%
3.6%
3.3%
2.3%
1.5%
2.9%
1.4%
1.9%
0.9%
2.0%
0.9%
1.7%
1.2%
0.5%
2.4%
2.6%
10.0%
2.4%
1.6.2. Bednights
PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION - BEDNIGHTS
2015
Gauteng
Western Cape
Eastern Cape Kwazulu Natal
AFRICA LAND
4 013 804
668 759
117 164
1 015 131
Botswana
215 687
32 386
3 295
14 157
Lesotho
743 019
189 546
10 744
59 730
Malawi
159 974
20 552
3 942
25 041
Mozambique
1 102 424
13 004
416
46 424
Namibia
111 002
215 055
26 266
9 167
Swaziland
227 833
6 775
19 646
654 440
Zambia
210 901
5 538
2 827
49 088
Zimbabwe
1 242 964
185 905
50 028
157 084
AFRICA AIR
602 361
201 900
36 208
58 899
Angola
105 675
24 567
648
393
Democratic Republic of Congo
103 236
30 037
219
2 240
Ethiopia
8 742
413
245
Ghana
24 530
5 234
532
6 876
Kenya
33 804
15 654
2 823
8 433
Nigeria
113 619
24 198
9 604
4 786
Tanzania
53 680
6 467
1 378
17 085
Uganda
33 011
1 828
655
651
Other Africa and Middle East
126 065
93 501
20 349
18 188
AMERICAS
367 046
727 314
122 662
144 036
Argentina
3 703
1 506
219
2 985
Brazil
16 960
57 418
3 346
6 729
Canada
38 219
62 654
19 235
10 297
USA
294 435
584 534
98 345
123 471
Other Americas
13 730
21 203
1 517
554
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
633 610
350 307
65 653
157 130
Australia
86 324
110 979
40 704
52 994
China including Hong Kong
82 750
54 110
2 152
14 524
India
334 118
70 634
4 950
49 414
Japan
13 296
13 689
3 318
4 354
New Zealand
25 638
23 014
1 572
5 908
South Korea
36 873
10 283
6 949
11 727
Other Asia and Australasia
54 610
67 597
6 008
18 208
EUROPE
632 201
1 802 769
274 711
254 829
Austria
14 315
45 585
6 532
1 577
Belgium
27 830
78 155
11 984
12 743
Denmark
7 112
22 575
1 295
2 229
France
67 348
145 239
7 073
25 558
Germany
74 058
396 578
69 389
55 204
Italy
43 530
56 806
5 769
3 575
Netherlands
38 580
193 752
36 763
38 180
Russian Fed
3 278
4 751
671
Spain
25 264
29 720
5 538
2 464
Sweden
8 826
37 816
10 828
1 696
Switzerland
16 248
74 621
6 039
6 147
UK
225 011
542 811
95 885
84 745
Other Europe
80 801
174 359
17 618
20 040
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
6 249 023
3 751 049
616 397
1 630 024
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Northern Cape
Free State
1 635 007
9 858
85 705
55 733
460 321
2 189
570 453
15 293
435 455
9 394
376
680 806
4 910
43 296
179
76 374
2 849
14 047
7 525
531 628
19 772
301
1 383 713
289 236
273 676
25 696
184 720
24 345
11 299
14 179
560 563
13 675
831
1 134
222 937
10 522
57 684
2 307 378
12 612
2 276 987
4 569
40 603
1 376
10 142
4 344
108 183
76
779
5 169
252
496
389
955
3 098
101
7 179
103 505
375
6 670
10 489
84 984
987
53 350
33 160
377
12 190
533
3 923
16 021
92 904
3 076
217 334
2 547
5 532
4 611
24 282
47 882
7 793
23 601
354
4 437
3 698
7 095
57 134
28 369
2 018 590
2 130
1 162
16 659
1 875
4 234
739
1 087
3 776
22 708
392
1 228
2 741
18 346
8 986
222
26 099
7 886
4 820
9 543
144
682
10 611
464
7 031
1 963
405
598
1 478
15 068
667
580
4 111
8 847
863
18 000
3 650
8 805
3 212
1 026
3 694
1 847
1 456
146 617
2 796
73 833
487
78 777
4 361
4 907
12 843
14 891
863
18 410
440
958
4 142
14 610
1 705
9 832
371
68 364
3 622
809
102
104
5 374
4 260
1 449
1 472
2 535
448
53 642
32 215
967 543
252
735
29 661
11 487
1 520 028
13 784
481
1 328
31 410
5 641
310 309
972
18 630
71 379
1 923
27 443
9 428
2 503
10 206
1 243
2 608
11 901
12 120
28 513
14 899
561
3 227
5 595
310
151
546
10 199
2 590
2 435 882
PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION - BEDNIGHTS
2014
Gauteng
Western Cape
Eastern Cape Kwazulu Natal
AFRICA LAND
4 855 713
469 488
46 806
872 565
Botswana
145 044
45 608
1 402
18 695
Lesotho
1 214 512
15 278
5 822
30 730
Malawi
233 541
3 009
8 191
3 897
Mozambique
1 587 523
80 918
6 802
15 400
Namibia
16 377
220 418
205
3 256
Swaziland
488 335
2 088
8 539
671 001
Zambia
235 901
9 304
6 301
28 209
Zimbabwe
934 481
92 865
9 545
101 377
AFRICA AIR
379 158
181 272
36 116
69 966
Angola
49 387
47 732
1 898
5 339
Democratic Republic of Congo
34 788
6 232
1 362
3 125
Ethiopia
9 830
1 136
402
2 878
Ghana
20 186
5 576
9 049
5 916
Kenya
27 525
7 429
908
4 953
Nigeria
109 568
22 260
2 189
11 082
Tanzania
32 974
3 067
1 453
3 051
Uganda
14 488
3 699
2 956
3 463
Other Africa and Middle East
80 411
84 140
15 901
30 159
AMERICAS
266 654
709 106
154 681
170 068
Argentina
2 085
3 699
546
415
Brazil
20 756
42 783
3 728
4 139
Canada
22 327
73 452
14 844
20 901
USA
213 897
536 713
133 629
143 471
Other Americas
7 588
52 459
1 935
1 143
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
391 426
406 180
86 339
197 501
Australia
81 651
110 914
28 617
33 805
China including Hong Kong
59 071
112 573
17 356
22 486
India
186 170
70 318
26 143
90 110
Japan
13 407
17 732
1 607
8 933
New Zealand
12 967
11 889
5 456
6 199
South Korea
9 912
5 917
596
4 530
Other Asia and Australasia
28 249
76 838
6 563
31 438
EUROPE
480 988
1 757 315
234 121
276 557
Austria
6 089
24 002
3 024
4 154
Belgium
13 564
55 893
3 219
4 221
Denmark
3 879
22 356
5 434
11 555
France
46 873
143 456
15 351
46 210
Germany
68 121
398 541
73 003
42 563
Italy
44 026
47 797
3 886
8 337
Netherlands
17 295
142 525
24 837
20 081
Russian Fed
6 742
3 045
1 082
4 140
Spain
16 603
36 320
5 224
7 528
Sweden
12 417
13 518
4 976
6 086
Switzerland
10 521
47 938
9 284
6 590
UK
178 825
626 859
65 081
88 000
Other Europe
56 034
195 065
19 720
27 091
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
6 373 939
3 523 361
558 064
1 586 657
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
South African Tourism - Strategic Research Unit
Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Northern Cape
Free State
1 839 648
1 018
67 945
1 235
337 794
1 942
1 374 268
460
54 985
22 458
1 118
540
348
6 674
1 626
3 256
2 892
233
5 772
107 801
834
4 800
16 159
85 017
991
37 361
15 859
3 790
6 844
1 544
3 502
576
5 247
180 379
2 976
6 377
7 169
25 516
35 095
10 512
11 074
482
956
4 921
7 013
48 017
20 271
2 187 647
786 676
11 762
14 696
15 197
4 927
2 691
29 578
3 779
704 045
7 703
761
539
531 536
129 659
286 422
7 738
1 191
550
42 552
14 346
49 078
7 444
149 688
679
76 220
2 068 487
7 747
2 044 968
64 938
2 945
941
318
801
396
641
811
339
3 414
79 002
202
2 794
15 261
60 165
580
27 633
11 913
2 985
7 985
1 052
764
850
2 083
124 387
209
3 244
3 635
14 938
7 689
6 058
9 780
544
2 078
13 029
4 416
50 320
8 448
1 025 401
270
547
689
1 079
868
614
266
3 112
28 244
278
1 319
4 349
21 985
313
24 424
8 769
3 685
4 487
1 526
1 902
1 452
2 603
58 156
1 373
430
420
10 093
10 623
2 480
4 748
1 308
2 937
2 818
804
15 212
4 911
649 805
335
7 515
2 930
359
861
458
1 252
6 792
100
340
310
5 767
274
12 618
3 381
293
1 531
1 081
964
5 286
43 202
497
579
2 747
5 018
9 977
3 881
1 011
3 350
803
720
11 238
3 323
215 230
11 512
7 079
464
1 170
1 097
534
968
2 847
37 648
3 739
2 487
31 091
330
25 492
23 164
177
428
143
991
588
35 590
1 003
956
2 761
3 530
1 729
3 437
617
3 759
688
6 992
10 049
2 174 296
PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION - BEDNIGHTS
2013
Gauteng
Western Cape
Eastern Cape Kwazulu Natal
AFRICA LAND
4 463 675
624 061
145 782
815 608
Botswana
197 761
91 253
2 929
19 235
Lesotho
1 218 495
65 733
34 566
32 204
Malawi
317 986
16 456
572
17 961
Mozambique
894 991
100 822
102
16 028
Namibia
37 832
188 347
2 256
5 293
Swaziland
481 854
3 589
30 590
460 743
Zambia
203 720
34 197
1 298
18 132
Zimbabwe
1 111 035
123 665
73 470
246 013
AFRICA AIR
374 184
340 405
24 726
48 766
Angola
54 952
57 795
144
2 195
Democratic Republic of Congo
30 669
5 691
1 092
4 958
Ethiopia
5 250
3 580
1 377
1 811
Ghana
31 568
6 762
3 963
3 879
Kenya
43 636
10 175
663
3 914
Nigeria
127 813
27 552
3 473
14 495
Tanzania
19 024
7 263
2 216
3 169
Uganda
10 326
1 002
1 422
3 355
Other Africa and Middle East
50 945
220 586
10 376
10 991
AMERICAS
294 795
520 880
123 658
162 883
Argentina
4 221
7 713
2 336
1 119
Brazil
19 932
44 768
4 100
4 776
Canada
26 368
75 691
7 149
20 309
USA
240 306
376 103
107 781
134 928
Other Americas
3 969
16 606
2 292
1 750
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
452 147
470 554
59 863
170 074
Australia
93 854
102 076
22 589
35 415
China including Hong Kong
63 240
155 943
10 166
8 873
India
213 874
81 772
15 034
75 405
Japan
10 027
30 277
1 103
3 543
New Zealand
21 505
19 186
2 497
13 622
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
36 918
79 233
7 749
28 440
EUROPE
480 502
1 743 819
184 092
225 025
Austria
14 898
29 046
3 021
1 727
Belgium
10 830
40 209
2 030
3 764
Denmark
6 866
36 268
2 261
3 695
France
48 294
120 422
12 861
34 156
Germany
73 944
298 349
49 808
32 163
Italy
22 335
61 984
5 723
7 681
Netherlands
30 393
174 235
12 468
24 678
Russian Fed
Spain
9 066
31 592
2 691
6 118
Sweden
15 934
6 803
5 666
5 809
Switzerland
18 064
51 052
8 633
8 766
UK
146 552
685 598
54 121
71 490
Other Europe
78 660
193 696
24 809
24 979
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
6 065 303
3 699 719
538 121
1 422 355
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
South African Tourism - Strategic Research Unit
Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Northern Cape
Free State
1 536 632
2 511
29 366
7 454
404 822
2 144
1 010 209
9 411
70 715
19 648
1 410
1 767
319
2 389
4 278
1 455
1 642
195
6 193
90 804
362
2 354
9 513
77 728
846
47 561
13 873
4 649
11 340
1 593
3 290
693 883
2 979
20 065
6 020
3 432
1 033
9 711
19 140
631 503
8 125
961
922
499 466
117 573
303 958
7 277
9 728
1 744
19 216
11 084
28 887
8 357
446
457
1 092
224
868
132
1 402
477
3 260
23 670
178
2 873
2 846
17 387
387
46 356
21 316
9 278
6 178
1 633
97 432
1 841 994
686
1 817 545
1 142
180
1 476
1 617
7 748
11 601
7 811
1 228
12 816
145 080
1 222
8 632
1 661
12 886
22 328
5 835
15 074
1 778
87 222
627
3 800
5 737
5 840
13 041
7 558
10 518
7 951
47 022
283
391
493
13 023
12 482
636
2 890
3 929
8 069
6 316
40 952
18 176
1 839 725
927
3 978
2 016
22 782
10 397
889 668
1 694
1 280
11 747
2 102
624 871
1 363
711
878
1 876
1 321
57 826
385
1 289
3 232
52 889
42 611
12 059
1 429
23 392
273
3 680
23 758
174
73 022
478
2 990
1 637
1 311
14 525
129
2 176
2 046
9 694
479
21 876
3 826
217
13 917
2 765
749
402
31 596
3 911
148
1 917
223
258
26 638
480
2 437
23 689
17 987
7 579
450
9 269
297
160
778
2 506
4 766
2 199
3 140
391
57 569
1 347
1 116
1 071
6 523
20 985
1 063
5 832
817
1 348
424
14 482
976
168 418
636
435
10 727
7 835
1 951 998
1.7. Appendix 8: Activities undertaken by tourists
ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN WHILE IN SOUTH AFRICA
2015
Shopping
Nightlife
Adventure
Business
AFRICA LAND
44.5%
10.9%
1.2%
9.3%
Botswana
48.0%
17.7%
1.6%
17.2%
Lesotho
29.1%
14.8%
1.4%
5.8%
Malawi
51.6%
7.8%
0.9%
12.7%
Mozambique
40.0%
10.8%
0.5%
7.5%
Namibia
35.8%
28.0%
4.8%
13.8%
Swaziland
13.2%
6.1%
2.5%
7.7%
Zambia
64.1%
20.1%
1.7%
23.8%
Zimbabwe
68.2%
5.4%
0.5%
9.5%
AFRICA AIR
74.7%
52.8%
5.1%
37.8%
Angola
86.1%
50.0%
2.1%
20.8%
Democratic Republic of Congo
71.3%
56.3%
3.4%
25.7%
Ethiopia
68.1%
38.3%
6.5%
59.9%
Ghana
83.4%
53.9%
1.3%
45.6%
Kenya
60.1%
45.6%
4.7%
64.5%
Nigeria
78.0%
44.5%
1.5%
32.5%
Tanzania
71.6%
49.8%
0.5%
33.8%
Uganda
72.3%
46.9%
2.4%
48.2%
Other Africa and Middle East
72.2%
62.8%
11.5%
43.7%
AMERICAS
61.9%
51.9%
23.9%
20.7%
Argentina
77.9%
91.4%
3.3%
52.5%
Brazil
73.1%
64.3%
19.3%
34.6%
Canada
62.2%
51.1%
32.2%
18.3%
USA
60.4%
50.2%
23.5%
19.1%
Other Americas
73.7%
64.7%
19.1%
35.4%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
72.5%
62.3%
14.7%
39.2%
Australia
68.1%
55.3%
16.2%
18.3%
China including Hong Kong
69.4%
66.1%
3.8%
47.9%
India
75.3%
67.5%
14.3%
60.1%
Japan
76.1%
68.6%
32.2%
44.3%
New Zealand
82.8%
61.7%
31.7%
22.8%
South Korea
82.9%
67.7%
34.7%
17.5%
Other Asia and Australasia
73.0%
56.7%
10.4%
37.5%
EUROPE
65.1%
63.8%
21.3%
27.6%
Austria
71.8%
71.7%
28.8%
20.8%
Belgium
72.5%
77.8%
28.2%
25.8%
Denmark
58.3%
56.6%
18.0%
32.5%
France
58.2%
54.2%
18.8%
28.6%
Germany
64.2%
64.2%
27.7%
23.6%
Italy
66.2%
61.9%
17.5%
41.0%
Netherlands
64.9%
64.1%
24.6%
17.6%
Russian Fed
60.9%
66.3%
12.1%
60.0%
Spain
63.0%
66.2%
31.2%
42.9%
Sweden
69.0%
73.6%
29.8%
26.6%
Switzerland
69.7%
64.7%
29.9%
18.7%
UK
65.3%
62.3%
17.2%
26.6%
Other Europe
70.2%
73.0%
16.7%
40.0%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
50.0%
22.7%
5.4%
14.3%
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
South African Tourism - Strategic Research Unit
Cultural,
Education
historical and
training study
heritage
4.3%
2.1%
7.7%
2.8%
1.7%
10.2%
6.8%
6.1%
2.3%
14.5%
12.8%
18.6%
23.3%
20.1%
22.5%
12.1%
17.2%
20.4%
11.6%
12.2%
3.3%
9.9%
9.5%
13.0%
6.7%
3.5%
1.8%
1.7%
5.6%
0.9%
1.7%
27.9%
1.8%
5.7%
7.8%
7.9%
2.4%
3.9%
5.6%
5.8%
6.0%
7.9%
8.9%
11.6%
9.2%
4.5%
8.0%
5.2%
2.6%
3.8%
1.1%
5.4%
3.4%
5.7%
2.2%
9.6%
1.7%
13.1%
10.3%
12.6%
2.1%
6.9%
10.1%
13.6%
5.9%
14.4%
18.3%
42.0%
25.7%
38.6%
37.6%
43.1%
42.7%
27.8%
33.3%
26.2%
26.2%
15.6%
43.3%
45.4%
16.2%
31.8%
48.0%
45.0%
32.0%
33.3%
40.4%
27.5%
34.2%
16.3%
33.5%
38.8%
34.6%
25.4%
29.1%
9.4%
Wildlife
Visiting
natural
attractions
Beach
Social
1.3%
4.0%
0.0%
0.4%
1.3%
4.1%
3.7%
1.6%
0.3%
9.4%
3.6%
6.8%
2.1%
6.9%
6.0%
4.2%
1.8%
0.0%
20.9%
52.4%
28.8%
53.2%
56.2%
52.2%
48.9%
38.1%
46.9%
31.3%
40.6%
30.9%
40.5%
47.3%
23.5%
45.3%
53.1%
60.3%
52.8%
51.6%
59.0%
44.4%
47.8%
24.2%
43.7%
47.1%
45.2%
34.8%
43.0%
10.8%
2.1%
1.7%
1.2%
4.8%
1.7%
11.4%
2.5%
2.9%
1.7%
15.5%
12.3%
9.7%
6.5%
3.8%
8.0%
8.8%
5.8%
10.8%
29.9%
56.1%
39.1%
51.9%
58.8%
56.3%
53.5%
44.2%
48.7%
43.1%
37.1%
59.4%
50.0%
65.4%
37.2%
51.8%
53.7%
64.3%
50.4%
48.7%
60.9%
51.1%
61.0%
26.3%
54.6%
56.3%
56.8%
44.9%
50.3%
12.8%
3.4%
2.1%
1.4%
6.0%
0.5%
21.7%
6.7%
10.2%
3.0%
13.1%
6.6%
12.0%
0.0%
12.0%
18.3%
7.1%
23.5%
14.5%
16.6%
27.8%
32.3%
25.7%
30.8%
27.2%
36.9%
24.4%
29.0%
17.2%
18.8%
26.7%
26.2%
35.2%
32.9%
33.0%
41.9%
45.7%
24.6%
30.0%
39.9%
20.7%
43.1%
17.9%
28.2%
35.6%
40.8%
29.6%
27.4%
9.2%
52.3%
56.9%
70.4%
35.7%
54.7%
52.1%
61.4%
28.6%
35.9%
40.5%
45.7%
68.3%
31.9%
38.0%
24.5%
44.0%
53.5%
27.8%
31.3%
29.2%
32.1%
25.8%
28.8%
29.5%
31.3%
34.6%
50.4%
23.5%
20.6%
14.2%
58.9%
54.7%
41.5%
34.1%
37.6%
28.1%
21.0%
21.5%
29.3%
26.2%
38.5%
25.8%
22.1%
28.5%
34.1%
43.3%
31.7%
47.8%
ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN WHILE IN SOUTH AFRICA
2014
Shopping
Nightlife
Adventure
Business
AFRICA LAND
87.1%
78.7%
0.2%
6.6%
Botswana
60.4%
69.7%
0.5%
14.6%
Lesotho
75.0%
46.2%
0.0%
1.8%
Malawi
96.8%
91.8%
.2%
9.0%
Mozambique
90.4%
85.6%
0.7%
3.9%
Namibia
47.5%
36.3%
1.9%
17.3%
Swaziland
97.7%
88.9%
0.0%
1.0%
Zambia
93.8%
91.5%
.1%
17.3%
Zimbabwe
97.9%
96.4%
0.0%
9.9%
AFRICA AIR
74.4%
64.7%
2.9%
43.9%
Angola
79.7%
70.5%
2.3%
39.6%
Democratic Republic of Congo
81.5%
61.5%
.6%
50.7%
Ethiopia
78.9%
57.9%
.0%
45.5%
Ghana
74.6%
61.6%
.6%
50.9%
Kenya
62.8%
50.3%
2.5%
54.4%
Nigeria
85.9%
80.8%
3.8%
42.4%
Tanzania
74.2%
60.7%
.6%
46.8%
Uganda
75.7%
56.3%
.6%
44.6%
Other Africa and Middle East
65.6%
58.9%
4.6%
40.5%
AMERICAS
64.4%
55.8%
20.6%
23.3%
Argentina
63.3%
65.5%
11.9%
42.7%
Brazil
60.5%
57.7%
18.9%
36.8%
Canada
66.6%
60.0%
19.3%
24.1%
USA
64.3%
54.1%
21.1%
20.3%
Other Americas
71.6%
68.8%
20.9%
41.3%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
64.1%
58.6%
11.6%
40.4%
Australia
65.3%
55.4%
16.6%
17.1%
China including Hong Kong
74.2%
73.8%
10.7%
40.4%
India
55.6%
48.9%
10.6%
57.9%
Japan
58.0%
64.2%
7.4%
60.4%
New Zealand
68.1%
53.9%
18.8%
29.5%
South Korea
52.6%
57.2%
5.4%
57.2%
Other Asia and Australasia
67.1%
60.0%
6.9%
42.2%
EUROPE
58.5%
59.3%
24.9%
26.1%
Austria
53.0%
50.2%
22.6%
26.3%
Belgium
47.6%
54.4%
26.1%
35.0%
Denmark
72.0%
71.1%
35.6%
17.4%
France
50.7%
52.1%
23.0%
32.2%
Germany
60.0%
59.8%
31.8%
24.6%
Italy
59.0%
52.1%
16.2%
47.6%
Netherlands
58.6%
70.3%
34.4%
18.8%
Russian Fed
46.5%
36.8%
10.2%
59.6%
Spain
62.8%
58.5%
14.4%
34.6%
Sweden
57.0%
52.6%
11.1%
28.2%
Switzerland
68.8%
56.0%
26.3%
26.5%
UK
59.1%
62.7%
24.3%
20.4%
Other Europe
59.6%
55.4%
20.0%
28.7%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
81.9%
74.4%
4.1%
12.0%
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
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Cultural,
Education
historical and
training study
heritage
2.1%
.9%
1.3%
1.3%
1.7%
6.8%
5.4%
3.6%
1.3%
9.9%
11.7%
5.2%
14.3%
10.0%
16.7%
7.0%
20.3%
15.6%
6.8%
6.9%
.0%
6.8%
5.6%
7.4%
4.9%
3.4%
1.8%
3.8%
4.5%
3.9%
1.0%
5.3%
3.9%
4.1%
3.4%
6.1%
7.5%
4.8%
5.7%
4.0%
2.6%
4.4%
5.8%
12.1%
4.6%
2.8%
2.5%
2.9%
6.0%
.8%
14.2%
2.5%
2.5%
4.2%
6.3%
9.2%
3.9%
20.0%
12.9%
19.4%
12.4%
19.6%
15.0%
26.8%
12.1%
19.6%
23.2%
38.5%
38.9%
29.4%
31.9%
40.9%
35.7%
28.7%
31.9%
40.8%
20.6%
16.3%
26.6%
20.4%
28.2%
30.2%
23.2%
24.4%
39.8%
33.6%
39.0%
30.2%
31.5%
23.0%
29.2%
24.7%
29.9%
25.5%
30.1%
11.3%
Wildlife
Visiting
natural
attractions
Beach
Social
0.9%
1.9%
0.3%
.3%
.6%
2.8%
0.0%
.7%
1.7%
7.0%
4.2%
4.7%
1.1%
9.4%
4.1%
5.6%
4.8%
4.0%
11.2%
45.9%
36.5%
32.0%
40.2%
49.4%
31.5%
23.1%
29.7%
21.2%
22.4%
15.9%
30.1%
14.9%
18.0%
36.9%
37.4%
38.2%
51.3%
39.5%
48.8%
34.3%
35.6%
13.3%
28.6%
43.1%
48.3%
29.5%
38.0%
7.6%
3.4%
2.4%
0.5%
3.0%
1.1%
13.8%
2.7%
7.9%
5.8%
17.2%
20.0%
8.4%
11.2%
16.7%
10.6%
14.1%
9.5%
12.3%
24.0%
60.0%
47.6%
46.3%
61.4%
62.4%
45.4%
42.6%
47.2%
54.7%
32.6%
39.4%
39.0%
18.4%
42.9%
58.6%
57.6%
56.5%
76.0%
57.7%
69.5%
48.1%
70.5%
23.5%
47.3%
46.2%
58.9%
56.0%
53.2%
13.4%
3.8%
.4%
0.9%
2.1%
0.6%
11.0%
15.4%
5.7%
2.6%
13.6%
10.6%
11.6%
10.0%
15.9%
6.7%
12.2%
6.7%
15.1%
19.5%
36.5%
35.2%
28.7%
38.8%
37.2%
34.0%
24.2%
33.0%
15.3%
25.5%
11.3%
32.2%
18.0%
23.2%
38.2%
27.9%
31.4%
49.7%
33.1%
44.2%
32.1%
40.3%
24.5%
32.3%
17.5%
42.0%
39.1%
38.3%
9.8%
64.3%
57.7%
94.2%
53.2%
64.8%
55.2%
91.4%
43.6%
37.0%
32.5%
36.3%
43.1%
41.1%
30.9%
19.6%
38.9%
21.0%
25.4%
30.9%
21.4%
10.0%
18.5%
28.1%
21.1%
17.3%
26.5%
47.6%
18.0%
19.3%
9.4%
42.1%
18.2%
17.5%
29.7%
19.3%
24.3%
19.1%
19.4%
20.4%
13.3%
31.8%
13.3%
26.7%
24.6%
23.4%
42.0%
31.3%
56.3%
ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN WHILE IN SOUTH AFRICA
2013
Shopping
Nightlife
Adventure
Business
AFRICA LAND
85.8%
72.2%
0.5%
9.0%
Botswana
61.1%
63.9%
1.4%
20.6%
Lesotho
79.5%
38.2%
0.0%
2.1%
Malawi
92.5%
90.2%
.3%
18.5%
Mozambique
94.0%
86.3%
0.9%
5.3%
Namibia
51.9%
46.3%
5.8%
31.8%
Swaziland
89.5%
82.5%
0.0%
2.5%
Zambia
85.2%
80.0%
.9%
27.0%
Zimbabwe
92.8%
88.7%
0.1%
12.0%
AFRICA AIR
67.7%
62.0%
8.0%
46.1%
Angola
68.9%
61.8%
4.5%
35.2%
Democratic Republic of Congo
59.7%
52.0%
.0%
49.5%
Ethiopia
56.6%
60.3%
4.6%
65.7%
Ghana
62.1%
64.1%
4.3%
47.5%
Kenya
61.8%
56.2%
.8%
63.5%
Nigeria
72.0%
59.2%
4.0%
43.9%
Tanzania
65.3%
68.4%
5.6%
58.8%
Uganda
66.0%
49.2%
2.5%
44.6%
Other Africa and Middle East
70.6%
69.2%
20.5%
42.1%
AMERICAS
59.5%
60.9%
16.2%
28.8%
Argentina
69.9%
65.8%
17.9%
36.7%
Brazil
62.6%
58.8%
18.2%
48.0%
Canada
55.0%
58.1%
19.3%
22.9%
USA
59.4%
61.5%
15.3%
26.2%
Other Americas
61.0%
62.1%
19.8%
48.8%
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA
60.7%
56.6%
12.6%
44.8%
Australia
58.3%
45.9%
15.0%
24.2%
China including Hong Kong
74.8%
78.0%
7.4%
47.7%
India
54.1%
45.3%
11.9%
55.8%
Japan
48.2%
58.7%
12.4%
56.4%
New Zealand
50.7%
46.0%
20.5%
25.6%
South Korea
Other Asia and Australasia
62.9%
60.0%
17.6%
46.1%
EUROPE
57.4%
64.8%
20.9%
35.2%
Austria
64.2%
74.8%
22.4%
51.2%
Belgium
49.1%
62.5%
17.0%
46.1%
Denmark
55.0%
61.0%
25.9%
15.5%
France
49.2%
56.8%
15.2%
48.0%
Germany
56.3%
63.2%
24.5%
36.0%
Italy
52.1%
54.2%
12.9%
48.9%
Netherlands
59.6%
71.4%
29.9%
30.2%
Russian Fed
Spain
48.8%
77.0%
15.1%
57.0%
Sweden
57.4%
64.7%
6.7%
41.5%
Switzerland
61.4%
64.6%
20.8%
29.5%
UK
60.6%
68.2%
22.9%
25.4%
Other Europe
60.3%
60.8%
14.9%
40.6%
ALL FOREIGN TOURISTS
80.1%
69.9%
3.9%
15.3%
Notes:
Blank cells indicate that the sample is not big enough for a valid statistical interpretation
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
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Cultural,
Education
historical and
training study
heritage
Wildlife
Visiting
natural
attractions
Beach
Social
3.2%
3.8%
2.6%
3.4%
1.5%
7.1%
8.6%
4.5%
1.6%
8.3%
10.1%
3.4%
5.2%
9.2%
8.5%
4.8%
11.1%
5.2%
11.7%
6.7%
4.7%
5.6%
5.1%
7.0%
10.1%
3.2%
2.3%
2.4%
4.4%
2.6%
.9%
7.2%
2.5%
10.6%
7.0%
9.1%
8.1%
5.1%
4.6%
5.5%
19.1%
20.3%
12.1%
14.1%
14.3%
13.3%
17.7%
9.9%
14.6%
27.8%
31.3%
33.6%
33.1%
31.7%
31.1%
27.9%
27.0%
17.9%
47.9%
22.8%
20.1%
18.4%
1.9%
1.7%
0.3%
1.5%
.7%
5.5%
2.4%
2.8%
3.2%
10.7%
9.9%
1.6%
1.6%
4.5%
3.0%
2.3%
2.3%
4.0%
28.8%
36.8%
27.3%
26.4%
40.4%
38.1%
26.9%
22.7%
32.4%
12.6%
23.9%
16.6%
35.9%
6.9%
2.3%
1.2%
7.0%
2.1%
13.1%
12.9%
6.0%
11.7%
19.4%
22.2%
7.4%
5.3%
8.7%
7.1%
8.3%
10.1%
7.6%
42.9%
50.7%
33.6%
33.3%
52.6%
53.1%
50.4%
37.3%
38.2%
52.9%
28.7%
32.1%
45.9%
5.1%
2.7%
0.8%
6.8%
1.4%
15.0%
18.5%
4.6%
4.1%
18.1%
16.9%
5.2%
16.4%
11.8%
12.9%
11.5%
6.4%
14.8%
34.7%
36.6%
32.5%
31.4%
35.7%
37.5%
36.4%
24.7%
31.2%
13.7%
25.9%
21.4%
39.1%
57.0%
54.2%
82.0%
55.1%
33.9%
41.7%
87.1%
27.5%
41.7%
32.1%
34.5%
38.1%
16.6%
38.4%
19.9%
41.0%
22.1%
33.8%
27.2%
23.7%
22.1%
17.9%
31.4%
23.8%
8.8%
22.6%
39.3%
10.7%
20.6%
7.4%
40.8%
5.2%
5.3%
6.3%
6.2%
5.0%
4.3%
7.1%
2.1%
7.4%
26.6%
27.7%
23.7%
33.8%
34.4%
21.5%
32.5%
25.9%
32.5%
21.4%
34.6%
35.0%
33.3%
54.3%
28.8%
37.8%
24.0%
42.0%
29.3%
53.6%
46.2%
44.5%
67.9%
43.7%
51.5%
42.1%
60.7%
30.7%
36.7%
25.9%
31.8%
35.1%
29.3%
37.7%
30.2%
39.4%
21.5%
28.7%
21.9%
24.3%
19.2%
21.7%
26.4%
23.2%
26.3%
3.1%
6.1%
6.6%
4.7%
5.6%
3.7%
24.9%
13.0%
26.5%
28.0%
22.9%
11.5%
23.0%
32.0%
35.2%
37.6%
26.0%
7.8%
42.6%
42.0%
55.4%
61.4%
45.9%
15.1%
27.5%
14.2%
36.3%
43.6%
30.9%
10.8%
12.7%
21.3%
29.6%
37.2%
26.1%
50.3%
1.8. Appendix 9: Experiences in South Africa
MOST POSITIVE EXPERIENCE
Visiting family friends
2013
38.5%
2014
39.9%
2015
30.6%
Hospitality and friendly people
I had no outstanding experience
The scenery in SA is beatiful
Good serivce
Value for money
Business opportunities
Good infrastructure
The diverse experience
The wildlife game parks safari
The culture & heritage
Beaches
Other
59.0%
8.3%
22.2%
45.7%
21.8%
10.7%
33.3%
18.4%
7.6%
6.2%
4.3%
1.1%
63.2%
9.6%
31.5%
52.6%
28.4%
10.3%
39.9%
21.7%
7.5%
5.1%
6.5%
.5%
22.1%
19.9%
19.2%
16.7%
15.6%
10.2%
9.9%
8.9%
8.1%
4.9%
3.8%
11.8%
2014
90.4%
2.3%
2.3%
0.0%
1.1%
0.2%
0.8%
0.4%
0.6%
0.2%
1.0%
0.3%
2015
74.6%
10.0%
7.9%
6.5%
3.9%
1.9%
1.2%
0.8%
0.7%
0.5%
0.3%
4.0%
MOST NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE
I had no bad experience
Personal safety
Safety and security
Poor food facilities
Poverty beggars
Poor transport facilities
Expensive
Unfriendly people
Poor signage road signs
Poor airport service
The service was below my expectations
Other
South African Tourism Index Q2 2015
South African Tourism - Strategic Research Unit
2013
76.6%
2.0%
3.1%
0.0%
1.8%
0.6%
1.7%
0.7%
0.8%
0.5%
1.2%
0.9%
1.9. Appendix 10: Total Foreign Direct Spend
ESTIMATED TFDS (including Capital Expenditure) in SA
2013
TFDS (including Capital)
Change
R
2014
14 079 687 448
R
2015
13 650 969 712
-3.04%
R
16 953 747 546
24.19%
ESTIMATED TFDS (excluding Capital Expenditure) in SA
TFDS (excluding Capital)
R
2013
13 536 004 569
Change
2014
13 568 997 299
R
0.24%
2015
14 968 391 813
10.31%
ESTIMATED TFDS (excluding Capital Expenditure) by CATEGORY IN BILLIONS
Accommodation
Transport
Food and Drink
2013
R 1.3
R 1.0
R 1.4
2014
R 1.4
R 1.2
R 1.5
2015
R 2.2
R 1.2
R 2.2
% Change
53.2%
0.4%
41.4%
Leisure
Medical
Shopping
Resell
R 0.9
R 0.1
R 4.2
R 2.2
R 1.3
R 0.2
R 5.2
R 1.3
R 1.3
R 0.3
R 3.7
R 2.8
3.5%
68.9%
-30.2%
110.4%
Other
R 0.6
R 0.4
R 1.0
141.6%
ESTIMATED TFDS (excluding Capital Expenditure) by CATEGORY IN BILLIONS: AFRICA LAND
Accommodation
2013
R 0.5
2014
R 0.5
2015
R 0.6
% Change
14.3%
Transport
Food and Drink
Leisure
Medical
Shopping
Resell
Other
R 0.7
R 0.6
R 0.2
R 0.1
R 2.7
R 2.2
R 0.3
R 0.9
R 0.6
R 0.2
R 0.1
R 3.6
R 1.3
R 0.2
R 0.5
R 0.6
R 0.3
R 0.2
R 1.5
R 2.7
R 0.5
-45.4%
-5.4%
65.1%
29.9%
-57.5%
103.5%
109.0%
ESTIMATED TFDS (excluding Capital Expenditure) by CATEGORY IN BILLIONS: AIR MARKETS
Accommodation
Transport
Food and Drink
Leisure
Medical
Shopping
Resell
Other
2013
R 0.8
R 0.3
R 0.7
R 0.8
R 0.0
R 1.5
R 0.0
R 0.2
2014
R 0.9
R 0.3
R 0.9
R 1.1
R 0.0
R 1.6
R 0.0
R 0.2
2015
R 1.6
R 0.8
R 1.6
R 1.0
R 0.1
R 2.1
R 0.1
R 0.5
% Change
74.7%
117.4%
74.4%
-5.8%
182.3%
29.6%
521.6%
189.1%
ESTIMATED TFDS (excluding Capital Expenditure) by CATEGORY IN BILLIONS: AIR MARKETS
Gauteng
Western Cape
Eastern Cape
Kwa Zulu Natal
Mpumalanga
Limpopo
North West
Northern Cape
Free State
2013
R 5.3
R 1.5
R 0.2
R 1.1
R 1.7
R 2.2
R 0.6
R 0.2
R 1.4
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2014
R 5.1
R 1.4
R 0.2
R 0.9
R 1.5
R 2.3
R 0.7
R 0.2
R 1.4
2015
R 6.1
R 1.7
R 0.2
R 1.2
R 2.1
R 2.2
R 1.3
R 0.2
R 1.9
% Change
18.5%
22.6%
11.9%
40.7%
42.0%
-2.4%
86.7%
-22.0%
38.4%
MAJOR CURRENCY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE
2013
US Dollar
2014
R 9.47
R 10.53
11.2%
R 12.08
14.7%
R 14.54
R 17.72
21.9%
R 18.49
4.4%
R 12.34
R 14.44
17.0%
R 13.36
-7.5%
% Change
Pound
% Change
Euro
% Change
Source: www.oanda.com
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2. SA Tourism’s Departure Survey
South African Tourism conducts surveys of departing foreign tourists to gain an understanding of
the travel behaviour, perceptions, buying process, travel patterns and the amount spent on their
trip in South Africa. These surveys are designed primarily to provide information on which we
base our marketing decisions and track the performance of the industry. These surveys are the
only measure of tourism demand in South Africa.
Since 2002, South African Tourism has commissioned a monthly survey of departing foreign
visitors 18 years and older exiting through OR Tambo International Airport, Cape Town
International Airport and the following 10 land border posts.
 Kopfontein (Botswana)
 Pioneer Gate (Botswana)
 Lebombo (Mozambique)
 Butha-Buthe (Lesotho)
 Maseru (Lesotho)
 Oshoek (Swaziland)
 Golela (Swaziland)
 Beit Bridge (Zimbabwe)
 Alexander Bay (Namibia)
 Vioolsdrif (Namibia)
All interviews are conducted using computer-aided personal interviews in a face-to-face method.
The surveys are conducted in the following 17 languages: English, German, French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Mandarin, Siswati, Sotho, Tswana, Shona, Ndebele,
Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu.
The Departure Survey samples 3,800 respondents aged 18 years and older each month using
Computer Aided Personal Interviewing (CAPI) in the departure lounges of the two major
international airports and within the controlled area on the South African side of the land border
posts.
The results of the survey are weighted to the foreign tourist arrivals data for the reference period
as released by Statistics SA in their monthly release P0351. The variables mode of arrival and
country of residence are using in the weighting framework.
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2.1. Sample design
A random stratified probability sample is drawn proportional to the actual tourist arrivals
using the same month of the previous year. Sampling units are the two major airports and
10 land borders mentioned above.
Stratified Probability Sampling
Reasons: Eliminates bias
Results can be inferred to the foreign tourist population
Stratified Random Sampling
Strata
Systematic Random Sampling
1 in 5
Reasons for the Sampling Methods
Stratified Sampling
Systematic Sampling
1 in 5
Representative sample at each
• Manage Randomness
• K < 5 would introduce bias
airport and each market.
• Determining a random start
• K > 5 will cause difficulty in
• Eliminates obvious bias
• Eliminates interviewer bias
reaching the target
K = Interval
The total sample size at the airports is 3,800 per month, while the land survey consists
of 1,000 per month.
Airport Intervention
Airport
Sample Apr-Jun 2015
O. R. Tambo International
2980
Cape Town International Airport
820
Total Air Sample
3800
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Land Border Sample Apr-Jun 2015
Kopfontein
43
Pioneer Gate
38
Lesotho
Butha Buthe
103
Maseru
172
Malawi
Beit Bridge
21
Mozambique
Lebombo
189
Namibia
Alexander Bay
11
Vioolsdrift
15
Swaziland
Golela
42
Oshoek
83
Zambia
Beit Bridge
19
Zimbabwe
Beit Bridge
264
Total Land Sample All Borders
1000
Country
Botswana
2.2. Data reliability
The table below provides the confidence intervals at 95% confidence for the length of stay
and spend estimates reported. This simply means that there is a 95% chance that the data
reported falls between the ranges below.
Land markets
Air markets
Total
Land markets
Air markets
Total
TFDS (excluding capital expenditure)
Mean
Lower bound
R 4 781
R 4 542
R 19 087
R 18 133
R 7 920
R 7 524
Length of stay
Mean
Lower bound
7.79
7.40
17.00
16.15
9.77
9.28
Upper bound
R 5 020
R 20 042
R 8 316
Upper bound
8.18
17.85
10.26
2.3. Normalising expenditure data
SA Tourism now normalizes the spend data by eliminating 3-standard deviations from the
logarithmic mean.
y = log10 (x)
1. Compute log of spend variable using the formula above
2. Calculate the mean of the result obtained in (1) above.
3. Determine the cut-off criteria using the following formula:
4.
Transform the log values back to spend values using the following formula:
5.
Exclude all variables that fall outside the cut-off values.
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3. SA Tourism’s Domestic Tourism Survey
In 2007, South African Tourism commissioned a monthly domestic survey designed to measure
headline indicators and ensure a proper representation of existing travel trends and the
characteristics of travellers in the national population.
The following key indicators are measured:





Volume: the incidence of domestic travel and how many trips are taken
Value: how much is spent annually by domestic tourists
Number of bed nights: The number of nights spent in various establishments
Provincial distribution: How the volume, value and bed nights are distributed between
the nine provinces
Seasonality: When do people travel?
All interviews are conducted using paper-based personal interviews in a face-to-face method.
The Domestic Survey samples 1,300 respondents aged 18 years and older each month. Each
interview consists of two modules:
 Random questionnaire: measures the headline indicators and perceptions of various ad
campaigns run by SA Tourism
 Trip module: collects detailed information on each trip undertaken by respondent in the
past month. Separate trip module completed for each trip undertaken
3.1. Sample design
The sample of 1,300 (face-to-face) interviews per month (325 enumerator areas) is
designed as a multi-stage, stratified and clustered probability sample, representative of
the national population of SA residents aged 18 years and older. Only province and
dominant population group are used as explicit stratification variables. The Northern Cape
and the Asian population is over sampled to ensure representivity, while the rural
population is under sampled on the assumption of homogeneity of this population.
A sampling frame is created as follows:
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The sample is drawn as a rolling monthly sample in such a way that every consecutive
period of three months can be used as period for reporting (after benchmarked to the
18+ population of SA).
Sampling stages
• Explicitly stratified by province, race, geo-type
Stage 1
• Implicitly stratified by main place (magisterial district) and sub place (suburb)
Stage 2
• PPS sampling used to draw sample of EAs - probability proportional to the size
of the cluster i.e. number of persons 18 years and older
Stage 3
• EPSEM to draw four households per EA - walk and skip pattern
• Record hit rates, contacts, refusals, unsuitable respondents
Stage 4
• Kish Grid used to select a household member aged 18 years and older to be
interviewed in the selected household
The results of the survey are weighted back to the population is three stages:
• First stage: EAs are selected with probability proportional to size (pps) from sampling
frame
•
Develop EA Weight
WPSU
Pop18
•
1
,
•
n EA is the allocated number of EAs over the 12 months in the stratum,
•
PSU 18 the number of persons aged 18 years and older in the selected EA, and
is the number of persons aged 18 years and older in the selected stratum.
Second stage: Households are selected systematically in each EA
• Develop Household weight
WHH
•

PSU18 
  nEA
. 
POP
18 

 n
 WPSU  HH
 PSU HH
1

 ,


nHH

PSU HH is the number of household available in the PSU.
is the number of selected households in the selected PSU,
Third stage in sample design: draw one person 18 years+ randomly from the selected
household.
•
Develop respondent weight: is the number of persons aged 18 years and older
in the selected household
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The final sample record weight generally consists of three components:
• design weight,
• reciprocal value of response rate,
• adjusted weighting factor to compensate for non-coverage/skewness
3.2. Normalising expenditure data
The expenditure data is analysed on a monthly basis to measure effect on travel patterns
and the absolute values of the key variables. A methodology using above two standard
deviations is applied when necessary to normalise the data.
3.3. Data reliability
With such a low incidence, this report could not reflect data for all the provinces. Only
the provinces and purpose of travel data with a sample (unweighted n) count of above 20
were reflected on the report.
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4. Glossary of terms
Tourism is not an industry in the traditional sense because industries are classified according to
the goods and services they produce, while tourism is a consumption-based concept that depends
on the status of the consumer. This is the major reason for the difficulty in measuring tourism’s
contribution to the economy of any country.
With the growing significance of tourism globally and the increasing economic interdependence
between countries, it is becoming vital that there is a common language for defining and
measuring tourism statistics.
SA Tourism in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and
Statistics South Africa undertook an exercise to develop a set of tourism definitions that are
aligned to global standards. This process involved user consultation and the agreed definitions
are published in the Statistics South Africa document titled “Concepts and Definitions for
Statistics South Africa 2007”.
SA Tourism has now aligned its reporting to these approved definitions.

Visitor - Any person travelling to a place other than that of his/her usual environment
for less than 12 months, and whose main purpose of the trip is other than the exercise
of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.

Same day visitor – A visitor who visits a place for less than one night.

Tourist – A visitor who stays at least one night in the place visited. However since 2014
StatsSA is unable to include Transit tourists in Tourism and Migration reports and
therefore our definition of tourism excludes transit tourists.

Usual environment - To be outside the ‘usual environment’ the person should travel
more than 40 kilometres from his/her place of residence (one way) AND the place should
NOT be visited more than once a week. This includes place of work and place of study.
Leisure and recreational trips are included irrespective of frequency.

Country of residence - If a person resides (or intends to reside) for more than one year
in a given country and has there his/her centre of economic interest (e.g. his/her major
source of income), he/she is considered as a resident of this country.

International traveller - Any person on a trip between two or more localities in different
countries.

International visitor - Any person who travels to a country other than that in which
he/she has his/her residence but outside his/her usual environment for a period that is
less than 12 months and whose main purpose of visit is other than the exercise of an
activity remunerated from within the country visited.

International tourist - An international visitor who stays at least one night in collective
or private accommodation in the country visited.

Foreign traveler - A person who resides outside South Africa and visits the country
temporarily.

Foreign visitor - Visitor who is a resident of another country.
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Domestic tourist - A resident visitor who visits within the economic territory of the
country of reference.

Domestic visitor - A visitor whose country of residence is the country visited. They may
be nationals of this country or foreigners.

Trip - A journey undertaken by one or more members of the household for at least one
night away from home, where a person did not receive any remuneration (did not make
any profit) at that destination. It is important to note that a trip must be complete. That
means a trip is only applicable when a person returns to his/her place of residence.
Other terms commonly used by SA Tourism in its reports are:

Land markets are countries where at least 60% of arrivals from the country arrive by
land. The countries are Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland,
Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Air markets are those countries where at least 60% of arrivals from the country arrive by
air.

Compound Annual Growth Rate (CQGR) is the year over year growth rate applied to
arrivals over a multiple-year period. The formula for calculating CQGR is:
(Current Value/Base Value) ^(1/# of years) – 1.

Compound Quarterly Growth Rate is the year over year growth rate, within a specific
quarter, applied to arrivals over a multiple-year period.

Total foreign direct spend in South Africa (TFDS) – the total amount spent directly in
South Africa by all foreign tourists including amounts spent on goods for resale and
capital investments.

Total Domestic Direct Spend (TDDS) is calculated by adding the per capita spend for
each trip taken in the period and reported in nominal terms, unless otherwise stated.

Capital expenditure – the amount spent by foreign tourists during his/her trip and stay
at the destination on capital investments such as property, houses, motor vehicles,
artwork, furniture, jewellery, financial assets, etc.
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