Preliminary figures from the first three months of the four-month peak summer tourism season indicate the arrival of 466 469 international terminal passengers at Cape Town International Airport, supporting just over 9 300 jobs across the Western Cape.
This included direct, indirect, induced and tourism catalytic employment opportunities in the air transport sector.
“We know, based on calculations by the Western Cape government’s tourism, trade and investment promotion agency, Wesgro, that with the arrival of every 100 international terminal passengers, two jobs are supported. This means the total number of jobs supported by arrivals at the international terminal alone, is just over 9 300,” said finance and economic opportunities MEC Mireille Wenger.
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