Cape Town ready for the Festive Season!
Cape Town’s Executive Mayor, Nomaindia Mfeketo, says the Mother City is pulling out all the stops to ensure a safe, clean and enjoyable experience for all visitors and residents during the festive season. Briefing the media on the city’s preparedness to host millions of tourists who will converge on Cape Town during the festive season, Ms Mfeketo outlined a number of measures being put in place to ensure visitors feel welcomed.
“An efficient and well-established team of City officials will be on duty at all hours and for all eventualities during the holidays to ensure, with its partners, that the City works for everyone.” She said that as a preferred tourist destination, the City had set up a priority committee which worked continuously throughout the year to ensure a safe and fun holiday season and to deal with the additional demands placed on the City’s infrastructure.
Cape Town, with its 307km long coastline, 72 beaches, mountain range and nature reserves, will bustle with recreational, adventure and leisure outdoor and indoor activities during the next two months. Last year Cape Town received some seven million visitors, of which 1.5 million were overseas tourists and over five million were South Africans. Tourism revenue generated during the period amounted to an estimated R9.2 billion.
Some of the measures being put in place to ensure visitors enjoy their stay include the deployment of over 1 500 uniformed Metro Police officials, a multi-disciplinary disaster management system that will respond to any eventualities and the appointment of more than 100 lifesavers who will be deployed around the City’s beaches. Ms Mfeketo also revealed that nearly R14 million had been set aside for the cleaning teams. “There will be no interruption in refuse removal, even on public holidays,” she said.
Source: BUA News
