a) The Department is a member of the National Transport Forum and engages on all matters affecting tourism. This includes recent engagements with all relevant departments in the Tourism Strategy Implementation Work-Stream focusing on facilitating ease of access broadly.
b) The Department of Transport is also working on establishing the Single Transport Economic Regulator (STER) to consolidate the economic regulation of transport. The STER will, amongst others, promote transparency in the setting of transport fees and stakeholders will have a mechanism to provide their views. The Department of Tourism was engaged in respect of this process and provided its inputs.
-Passenger service charge per departing domestic passenger: R82 (from R127)
-Passenger service charge per departing international passenger: R223 (from R346)
-Passenger service charge per departing passenger for an airport within Botswana, Namibia
and Swaziland: R169 (from R263)