Golf has become less corporate and became a sport for all. Golf is big business whether it is a primary motivator or secondary activity by the tourist. There is an increasing number of both men and women joining the sport in South Africa and across the world. With Covid 19 fears an outdoor sport like golf is attractive.
Golf tourism in SA needs a lot more marketing both local and international markets focusing on identified source markets for South Africa. The sport does attract environmental impact questions related to land, water use and sustainability-related to economic benefit. However, some argue that golf presents benefits such as it compensating for seasonality of tourism, higher spending tourists, golf courses attract tourism investment, contributing to employment and offering regional competitiveness.
South Africa offers a myriad of golf holiday options across the provinces. These vary from high end 5 stars to tourist level operations. We need to sell the varying packages to travellers. South Africa also presents a great option for business tourism which can be combined with golf tours to extend the stays of the traveller.
Golf tourism contributes to several tourism segments, accommodation, transport, restaurant, attractions and gaming.