MEC Rodgers Monama leads Limpopo delegation to Travel Indaba
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- May 14, 2024
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The MEC for Economic Development, Environment and Tourism in Limpopo, Rodgers Monama is leading the delegation from the Province to the 2024 edition of the annual Africa Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba is taking place in Durban from the 14th to 16th May 2024 at the Nkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre.
MEC Monama will be accompanied and supported by the members of the Portfolio Committee on LEDET. The Chairperson of the Limpopo Tourism Agency Andrew Dipela and other members of the Board and the CEO of Limpopo Tourism Agency, Moses Ngobeni.
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Africa’s Travel Indaba is the largest tourism marketing event on the African calendar. It showcases the widest variety of Southern Africa’s best tourism products. Attracts international buyers and media from across the world.
Africa’s Travel Indaba has won awards for Africa’s Best Travel and Tourism Show. This award was presented by the Association of World Travel Awards.
“It is again that time of the year when we get an opportunity to provide access for our tourism products to showcase their diverse offerings to the world market. We are also confident that these diverse product offerings will excite buyers from all over the globe,” said MEC Monama.
LIMPOPO DELEGATION ARRIVES AT THE 2024 ANNUAL AFRICA TRAVEL INDABA
“We have as Limpopo Province 57 products which comprise 50 Small, Medium and Macro Enterprises (SMMEs) and 7 well established big scale products.
“What excites me most is the fact that Limpopo Province stand will have all the Five districts at the Indaba with Capricorn, Vhembe, Waterberg and Sekhukhune housed in the Limpopo pavilion, while Mopani will be next to the Limpopo stand,” he said.
“We want to see the people of our province benefitting from what we came here for. We are excited that the products we have brought will engage in business meetings that will bring life to the tourism business in the province.
“The delegates participating in the Indaba will make the most of it to yield positive results while growing their enterprises. Coming out of the Indaba we also want to see our SMMEs creating job opportunities. Reducing poverty and restore the dignity of our people which was also damaged by the legacy of apartheid.”