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Photo: WILLEM LAW

Photo: WILLEM LAW

Published Jan 18, 2017

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Cape

Town - The Western Cape had a bumper tourism period

with an increase of almost 30 percent in international visitors says Cape Town

Tourism.

Cape Town Tourism released

the preliminary figures this week for visitor traffic at Cape Town International

Airport and at the city's

major attractions.

December 2016 arrivals

showed an 8 percent increase in total arrivals (year-on-year) at the airport

(522 659), domestic arrivals increased by 3 percent (398 245), regional

arrivals showed a 1 percent decrease (8 795) and international arrivals

increased by 29 percent (84 493).

Visitor numbers to the

city's six major attractions showed there were 49 738 visitors to the Robben Island

Museum this past festive

season, 4 percent more than in December 2015. Kirstenbosch saw a record

December with the most visitors in a month with 118 699, a 6 percent increase

year-on-year, Groot Constantia with 79 000 visitors, a 25 percent increase on

December 2015. Cape Point also experienced a record December with 129 039

visitors, a 15 percent increase, Table

Mountain received 150 201

visitors, a 0.3 percent increase, year-on-year. The Waterfront had a 1 percent

decrease in visitors, however, for last year in total, they had almost 1

million more visitors than 2015.

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Cape Town Tourism said

tourism organisations cited locals preferring to stay within South Africa in

December and the exchange rate, which remains favourable for international

visitors as contributing to the favourable results.

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