Covid-19 safety protocol app for tourism sector
The Opus4business app is expected to help tourism and hospitality businesses improve their state of readiness
THE Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) has encouraged businesses to take advantage of a new app to help increase Covid-19 health and safety compliance in the sector.
The Opus4business app launched recently is expected to help tourism and hospitality businesses improve their state of readiness to reopen for domestic and international travellers.
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‘The app is a quick, easy and paperless way of indicating safe industry operating protocols and record compliance by business owners.
‘The Travel Safe – Eat Safe certification provides evidence that screening, distancing and cleaning procedures are in place and helps businesses seamlessly manage Covid-19 health screening for employees, suppliers, delivery agents and customers,’ said TBCSA CEO, Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa.
‘The app can also facilitate contact tracing if needed.’
Tshivhengwa said as the industry begins to slowly reopen, the council believes this new technology ‘puts safety in the hands of every stakeholder within the tourism value chain, which is an important part of the successful rebuilding of the sector’.
This as the Department of Tourism works on implementing a set of interventions to promote quick recovery of the sector, which has been hard hit by the lockdown.
A draft tourism recovery plan has been published online recently and a call has been made for industry stakeholders to submit comments by 15 August.
Minister Mmamokolo Kubayi-Ngubane said the plan will look at three phases of intervention –
re-igniting demand, rejuvenating supply and strengthening enabling capability.
‘One intervention that will drive demand in the recovery period is the MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) sector.
‘We will aggressively bid to host large international events in anticipation of the opening of the borders so we can immediately drive up demand for our supply market, and also build confidence that South Africa is safe and open for business,’ Kubayi-Ngubane said.
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