It lies in implementing what many stakeholders have for years been demanding – a Marshall Plan for the tourism sector. As many readers will know, the Marshall Plan of 1948, implemented primarily as an anti-communism measure by the US, has long dominated all long-term economic thinking about Africa. Well, what I have in mind here is something much more modest – but it does require an adherence to the ideas which made the Marshall Plan so successful. When discussing the Marshall Plan, attention tends to focus on the very large sums that the US dedicated to the economic revival of Western Europe. The unavoidable outcome here is many potential visitors deciding not to travel for fear of failing to meet the deadline and having to go into quarantine on arrival.

Source: The Star January 07, 2021 02:01 UTC