THE total number of travellers who visited South Africa through all its ports of entry during November 2009 declined -4.3 year-on-year (y/y) after rising 4.6% year-on-year (y/y) in October, according to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) data released today.
A total of 2.273 million travellers (arrivals and departures) passed through South African ports of entry in November 2009, made up of 654,713 South African residents and 1.618 million foreign travellers.
There were 332,355 and 322,358 South African resident arrivals and departures respectively. The corresponding volumes for foreign arrivals and departures were 864,808 and 753,416 respectively.
Stats SA said a comparison between the movements in October and November 2009 indicates that there was a decline in all movements.
There was a decline of 11.1% from 373,807 in October 2009 to 332,355 in November 2009 for South African arrivals and a decline of 7.6% from 348,809 in October 2009 to 322,358 in November 2009 for South African departure. Foreign arrivals decreased by 2.8% from 889,529 in October 2009 to 864,808 in November 2009.
A comparison between movements in November 2008 and November 2009 indicates that there was an increase in all movements. Foreign arrivals increased by 4.5% from 827,605 in November 2008 to 864,808 in November 2009.
In November 2009, road transport was the most common mode of travel used by 68% of travellers. The number of travellers who used air transport was 704,673 (31.0%).
In November 2009, overseas tourists came mainly from Europe(70.6%); followed by North America (11.3%); Asia (9.3%); Australasia (4.6%); Central and South America (2.6%); and Middle East (1.6%).
Virtually all tourists from Africa came from the SADC countries (96.8%), followed by East and Central Africa (1.6%); West Africa (1.3%) and North Africa
(0.2%).
November 2009, an overwhelming majority (97.6%) of tourists came into South Africa for holidays compared with those who came to study (0.6%) and those on
business (0.6%).
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