Trends of tourism in Southern Africa

In June 1956 a meeting of the African Travel Commission of IUOTO at Rabat gave the permission to form a subsection group for the countries south of the equator. At an informal and exploratory meeting which took place in Salisbury (Southern Rhodesia) in May 1957 the subsection was named African regional tourist conference or AFTOUR. The following territories were represented: The Union of South Africa, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyassaland, the Belgian Congo, the East African Territories (Kenia, Tanganyika, Uganda), Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) and Portuguese West Africa (Angola). These members will in future pool resources and information with the object of making it simpler for visitors to cover all “Southern Africa” during their tours of this continent, with uniformity of travel formalities. A later meeting, held in Pretoria, further consolidated AFTOUR as an important force in Southern Africa's tourist affairs. These notes were taken from the 1957/1958 report of the South African Tourist Corporation. AFTOUR does not publish any reports, and the minutes of the meetings are available to members only.