SARS is pushing ahead with its new travel pass in November – but trades Joburg for Durban
Staff, 2022-10-25 13:30:57,
King Shaka International Airport (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
- The South African Revenue Service will implement a new traveller management system in November.
- This travel pass, which has faced criticism from the country’s tourism sector, was initially due to be trialled at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport.
- It will now be piloted at Durban’s King Shaka International Airport.
- The online portal will allow travellers to “make declarations on a voluntary basis, well ahead of their arrival or departure to or from South Africa.”
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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) will push ahead with a trial of its new traveller management system in November, despite concerns from the country’s shaken tourism sector.
The South African Traveller Management System proposed by SARS has been met with apprehension from the country’s tourism sector, which, in addition to being battered by the pandemic and its associated lockdown restrictions, has struggled with government’s red tape. Both stumbling blocks have made the industry “gun-shy”, according to the Southern Africa Tourism Services Association (Satsa).
SARS’ October announcement of the impending implementation of an online travel pass sent shivers through South Africa’s tourism sector, which said that, despite assurances of consultation from the…
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