Thank you very much for the question. As I have indicated, the plan has got three pillars and the first pillar proactive measures. The proactive measure is to ensure that we prevent crime from happening. One of the measures that we have taken is training tourism safety monitors, we have deployed tourism safety monitors in all the nine provinces.
We work with the provinces and they identify all the tourist attractions and the hot spots, we then train those tourist safety monitors. We train them in terms of the hospitality, tour guiding and all related matters but they are linked with the police station and they are linked with a police officer that is responsible for them so that they are able to proactively report to the police when
they suspect something and there is a reaction from the police before the incident could happen
We have conducting izimbizo to local communities to be able to mobilise society to understand the benefits of tourism, the economic benefits of it, what is it that it brings to South Africa but at the same time mobilising South Africans to travel because the study has shown that South Africans are mainly not travellers.
They travel when they go to funerals and church. That's why when you look at the domestic travelling, Limpopo is the highest in terms of domestic travellers because people go to Moria but if you look at the value, regardless that Limpopo is the highest in terms of domestic travel but they are the lowest in terms of the value because these people go to Moria and they don't sleep in hotels and bread and breakfast, B&Bs, and all that. So they don't spend money as a result of that.
It's a matter that we need to work out and see how we mobilise them so that they understand that when you visit a friend it must be a tourist a visit where you then sleep either in a B&B, lodge, and you take your friends and families and tour. Now, it's festive season and people will be moving around but people will be visiting
friends, they will not be taking hospitality. So, it's a matter that we must mobilise our people to understand that it is part of the things that they are supposed to do so that we are able to have economic benefits as a country as a result of that.