Tourist Ministers issue joint communiqué at tourism fair ITB

Berlin, 11 March 2011. South Africa`s Minister for Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk together with Tourism Ministers from Kenya and Jamaica as well as the Ambassadors of New Zealand, Singapore, Kenya and the Caribbean Tourism Organisation as representatives of 33 long-haul destinations called an ad-hoc press conference at the South African booth at the ITB to inform the media that these long haul destination countries, were opposing the new airport taxes that some European countries impose on long haul destinations.

The joint communiqué issued by the group can be read |+| here

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