Thank you very much, Chair, and it is nice to have a Deputy Minister that comes all the way from Mpumalanga. Deputy Minister, we all know that your sights should be on the creation of an enabling environment that encourages job creation but at this point in time it appears as if you are looking at minimising job opportunities with the proposed amendment to the Airbnb operations.
In 2018, at the World Travel Awards, Cape Town was named the top events and festival destination in the world where we saw many tourists making reservations at Airbnbs as their prices were much more affordable and much more homely than hotels. My question to you is, will you today undertake to provide this House with statistics and if no statistics are available to conduct research on Airbnb reservations in comparison with hotels and ordinary guesthouses around the country? Thank you.