Source: Western Cape Provincial Government
Title: L Brown: Opening of direct flight between Maun and Cape Town
SPEECH TO CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF NEW DIRECT FLIGHT BETWEEN MAUN AND CAPE TOWN BY MS LYNNE BROWN, WESTERN CAPE MINISTER OF FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM, Cape Town, 14 November 2004
Ladies and gentlemen in recent years, the Western Cape has seen immense international interest in the region from travellers, tourism industry product providers, and local service providers.
However, this interest, when translated into reality, has to be accompanied by ease of access to the destination. This is critical to the growth of inbound tourism. We need to build and sustain partnership with role players such as airline operators. We need to ensure that their needs are met and most importantly implement programmes to stimulate demand for the destination.
I am committed to ensure that we build these partnerships. Just recently my department together with ACSA, and Cape Town Routes Unlimited hosted an Airline destination workshop focussing on how we can nurture growth in the destination and make ourselves desirable for tourism investment by airline operators and others.
At the end of the day, the bottom line is profit for the airline and profit can only be achieved if there are more passengers demanding service. It,
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