{"id":19420,"date":"2026-04-07T16:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19420"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:25:29","slug":"stats-biz-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19420","title":{"rendered":"Stats Biz \u2013 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South African tourism had a rough time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plummeting visitor numbers led to job losses across the sector. Recovery has been slow, but recent data show a positive trend. \nIn 2019, an estimated 777686 individuals were directly employed by the tourism sector, declining sharply to 456311 individuals in 2020 as the pandemic took hold.\nExplore the latest data on tourism, as well as other stories, in this edition of Stats Biz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/StatsBiz_March2026-2.pdf\">Download StatsBiz &#8211; March2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African tourism had a rough time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plummeting visitor numbers led to job losses across the sector. Recovery has been slow, but recent data show a positive trend. In 2019, an estimated 777686 individuals were directly employed by the tourism sector, declining sharply to 456311 individuals in 2020 as the pandemic&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=19420\" 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":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stats-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19458,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions\/19458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}