The V&A Waterfront in Cape Town has now almost recovered from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, management says.
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According to Business Insider, the V&A recorded more than 4.8-million visitors in the first eight months of the year, which was 43% higher than during the same period last year, and 68.4% up on the equivalent period in 2020. These numbers were still 20.2% below the figure for the same period in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.
‘We had a very tough couple of years,’ CEO David Green said at a media briefing. ‘V&A management’s approach during the pandemic had been to try to preserve as many businesses and activities on the waterfront as we could. We’re pretty much back to a normalised trading pattern,’ Green said. ‘Foreign tourist traffic is now at 80% of pre-Covid levels and is expected to reach 100% soon, and thereafter go higher.
Even though ten of the 80 eateries went under during the pandemic, the V&A did everything it could to keep businesses afloat by not reducing its staff complement and instead reducing its rental fees.
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