Deputy Speaker, I would like to thank the hon member Bikani for her support for youth training initiatives. One of them is a project to train 800 young chefs this year. We are investing R25 million on this in the first year. We hope that with the subsidy that the Minister of Finance announced for first-time job seekers this will assist in meeting some of the demands in that subsector. With regard to the hospitality sector, we need to do even more to meet future job demands.
We have just announced the foreign tourist arrivals for 2010, and it is indeed good news for the country. We had year-on-year growth of 15,5%, which translated into eight million foreign tourist arrivals last year. This is a narrower category than that of all foreign arrivals.
If we look at the World Cup, we see it was a good bonus for us. In just June/July last year we had just over 300 000 tourists coming to the World Cup, but even if we subtract the 4% growth that this represented, we still had double-digit growth - 11%. That is really good news for us. The really encouraging news is that we also grew in each and every one of the months for the rest of the year. So, it was not only in the months of the World Cup that the country experienced growth.
Apart from growth in our traditional markets, and excellent growth in the emerging markets, the gem in the statistics is from the African air markets. Apart from the land markets, in which we expected some growth, we saw a healthy growth in the African air markets. Thank you, Deputy Speaker. [Applause.]