{"id":11057,"date":"2018-04-03T16:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2018-04-03T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:05:05","slug":"stats-biz-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11057","title":{"rendered":"Stats Biz \u2013 March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tourism sector directly contributed 2,9% to the South African gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016, according to the latest release of Stats SA\u2019s annual <em>Tourism Satellite Account for South Africa<\/em> report. The sector also employed just under 687 000 individuals, making it a larger employer than mining and utilities. Explore the economic impact of the tourism sector, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats Biz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Stats Biz \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StatsBiz_March2018.pdf\">March 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tourism sector directly contributed 2,9% to the South African gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016, according to the latest release of Stats SA\u2019s annual Tourism Satellite Account for South Africa report. The sector also employed just under 687 000 individuals, making it a larger employer than mining and utilities. Explore the economic impact of&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11057\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-statements","category-stats-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}