Sub-Saharan Africa's tourism shows great potential, report says

CAPE TOWN - South Africa has emerged as one of the highest-ranked countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the latest Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report.

The report, which ranks 140 countries on their relative strengths in global tourism and travel, was released on the sideline of the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town.

Although Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest-ranking travel-and-tourism region in this year's report - with all but three of the countries performing lower than the global average - the region is expected to have the second-highest growth rate in tourism over the next 10 years, the report says.