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Africa’s tourism sector bouncing back!

While recovery is impressive, the sector’s 2023 revenue still lags behind 2019. Leisure tourism leads the way, followed by health, and business travel.

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Africa's tourism industry has recovered to just under the number of tourists that visited the continent in 2019. Increased routes, commodities and services trade are key growth contributors.

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We remain committed to driving regional expansion as a strategy to sustain business and sector growth for enterprises amid a challenging domestic economy.

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We leveraged our edtech study to write a @mailandguardian opinion piece on priorities for these companies within the South African market. Read more here:

Link: https://t.co/R1LHDCwMGi

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Regionally, sub-Saharan Africa’s edtech industry have grown at an AAGR of just under 10% (2020-2023), driven by mostly the basic & higher education user markets.

Read more: https://t.co/MumrHUFy2w

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Globally, edtech industry earnings have nearly doubled with basic and higher education accounting being the key segments. African edtech companies should also prioritise these sectors.

Read more: https://t.co/rlqdaor5Rv...

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A #strategy that scaling businesses can explore to sustain growth is being a born-global. Our @mailandguardian article discusses how SA SMEs can target the region to offset depressed local demand.

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Imports will continue to account for most of SA’s consumer electronics demand over the next 5 years. However, pricing & increasing financing access will support growth for key market participants.

Read more: https://t.co/q9VDDlZYXG

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Our edtech market analysis is out! In this report we discuss market dynamics, filtering from global to SA context. Institutional clients offer the most growth potential & could benefit @coursera , @2Uinc, @udemy, @EnezaEducation, @edukoya

Read more: https://t.co/MumrHUFy2w

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In our article published by @BDliveSA, we unpack a few strategies on how to overcome current economic challenges. Tough times call for innovating around survival and not just the problem.

Read more here: https://t.co/yHvSId44yJ

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We explore whether SA can capitalise on growing demand by increasing local production. For now, forming strategic partnerships with global industry leaders to assemble locally appears viable.

Find out more: https://t.co/q9VDDlZr88

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Globally, consumer electronics market revenues have increased slightly.

However, Africa’s revenues have increased by about US$20 billion between 2020 and 2023 with South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya being key country markets.

For more: https://t.co/q9VDDlZr88

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We recently concluded research on South Africa’s consumer electronics industry. Imports of electronics have increased considerably over the last few years, with most of them being sourced from Asia (particularly China).

Read more: https://t.co/rlqdaor5Rv...

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Difficult operating environment requires corporate South Africa to do things differently to sustain over the next 3- to 5-years. We discuss some of the how in the following @mailandguardian article: https://t.co/yPRevxhhaV

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What we have been working on - An evaluation on how to improve farmer ne... https://t.co/uy2tiZ21Hj via @YouTube

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Turning the SA economic corner should prioritise getting all involved. Also important to be empowered to do both.

Our article in the @mailandguardian discusses these trends.

Please read through it here: https://t.co/iDJEcrJbJW

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Birguid's #impactfuladvice Episode 8: EdTech in South Africa out now: https://t.co/8jjbc4Zjjx via @YouTube

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A quick review of sub-Saharan Africa’s pumps market reveals that the market is expected to witness modest revenue growth between 2024 and 2029. However, growth could be adversely impacted by funding challenges, particularly for infrastructure development related projects...

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#Impactfuladvice podcast episode 8 - South Africa's Edtech Sector Review https://t.co/FXGz1A7dOw via @YouTube

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Our managing director @Mr_JFCM wrote an article on the importance of fostering small business development in response to the latest unemployment statistics released by @StatsSA.

Read article here: https://t.co/aLJXCyB5hG

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