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Date
: 14/11/2004
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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