SANParks says all national parks will remain closed during the Covid-19 level four lockdown period.
Last week, Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said that the domestic tourism season would likely only start in December, and that no international tourism would happen this year.
On Friday, the DA called for a tourism recovery plan to start with opening the hospitality industry within the parameters of meeting hygiene and social distancing protocols to reduce further job losses and the closure of additional hospitality establishments.
The party said that it was estimated that a million jobs within the sector had already been lost thanks to the government doing nothing to jump-start it, or create conditions for the sector to do so.
The DA said it would question the minister about a tourism recovery plan at Parliament's tourism portfolio committee meeting this week.
- African News Agency
