Speaking at a press briefing yesterday at South African Tourism’s offices in Johannesburg the Minister of Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said that he did not believe that there would be a shortage of accommodation for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, but rather a transport challenge is what was facing government and the Local Organising Committee.
Explaining his sentiment van Schalkwyk noted that South Africa had just over 100 000 graded rooms in its inventory, but these were spaced out and many did not fall into the major centres such as Johannesburg, Durban or Cape Town.
This, he says, causes logistical problems for tour operators and as a result many tour operators were accommodating their clients further afield in smaller towns such as George and would bus and fly them to matches.
He says these so called ‘satellite camps’ provide a solution for the accommodation of 2010 supporters but the transport challenge needed to be sorted out.
He hinted at an example of how tour operators were considering bringing in busses from overseas to transport their clients.
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