Prost! Germany knocks UK into second place as SA's biggest source of tourists

Germany overtook the UK as South Africa’s largest source of tourists in October‚ Statistics SA reported on Monday.

The number of German tourists visiting SA jumped 30% to 40 492 in October from 31 158 in October 2015. The number of UK tourists increased 14% to 39 696 in October from 34 936 in the same month in 2015.

The overall number of foreign tourists visiting SA grew 14% to 850 956 in October from 748 561 in October 2015. The US maintained third place with an 8% growth in tourists to 27 583‚ with fourth-placed France narrowing the gap with a 22% jump in tourist numbers to 19 009 people.

Of the German visitors‚ more than 98% were holiday makers. Four percent of UK visitors were on business trips compared with 3% of US visitors.

 – TMG Digital/BusinessLIVE