Chairperson, I would like to thank the hon member Maluleke for his motion. Yes, the first five months of this year was from a tourism point of view the best five months we have had since 1998 and there are basically two major factors in that performance. The first one is very targeted, focused marketing, which is going well from that point of view, and the second one is the new airlift strategy that Cabinet adopted.
With regard to the markets, from the US, we have grown by 5% - it is good growth from that market - and from India, growth is over 10%. But then also from Africa there is a very encouraging trend; from Nigeria there is 22% growth and from Kenya we've seen 12% growth. We are doing well in our traditional markets as well. From France we had over 11% growth. So we are quite satisfied.
With regard to airlines announcing that they will be flying to South Africa, a number of airlines announced that they will now be flying to South Africa. Delta airlines, Thai Airways and a number of others have announced that they are increasing their flights; Air France, Lufthansa, and so forth.
So, just from an international perspective, we are looking, again, at another very, very good year for tourism in this country.
With regard to the issues around women's empowerment, this year we have allocated R65 million to the Tourism Enterprise Programme and next year it will be R70 million. A huge percentage of that money will specifically go to women and women-owned businesses. That is our contribution in line with government policy. Thank you.