Festive season tourism trade looking bleak
Homes in holiday hotspots still available as late as November
As domestic demand in the tourism industry softens, with cautious consumers holding on to their cash, travel over the festive period may prove to be less inspiring than usual - and holiday homeowners may bear the brunt of the slowdown. Holiday home rental agents in hotspots such as Umhlanga, Knysna and Plettenberg Bay have found it harder to move stock this year, with homes still available for the festive break as late as November. Vivienne Nel, holiday home manager at rental agency Holiday Plett, said it had been a terrible year. "We would have been booked by now but we still have quite a few homes available. We have a lot of demand to take on more properties [from owners and other agents] but we can't," she said. "I've spoken to other agents all along the Garden Route to Hermanus and they still have stock available." Usually Nel sees Johannesburg residents descend on Plettenberg Bay over December, with foreigners beginning to arrive in January through to March. This year business ...
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