Since the advent of democracy, the tourism sector has both benefited from and contributed to South Africa's 33 quarters of uninterrupted economic expansion since September 1999 - the country's longest economic upswing.

Opening this past year's Business Tourism Conference, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said "Our tourism industry, having overtaken gold as a source of foreign exchange, is one of the major contributors to this growth".

In 1994, a year in which three million foreign tourists entered the country, the Economist Intelligence Unit estimated that tourism contributed little more than 2% to South Africa's economy. Fast forward to 2007: more than 9 ...

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