The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber has launched a new tourism desk to help galvanise the sector as a key driver of socioeconomic growth in the metro.

The chamber says while the Bay is blessed with top-notch tourism assets, these are being undermined by neglect, and weak and fragmented efforts to leverage them.

Bay chamber chief executive Denise van Huyssteen said on Thursday that the city needed to do more to enhance its tourism assets to lure more visitors and convince them to stay longer.

"We need to focus on improving how we take care of our wonderful existing assets, and how to show them off better than we are doing currently."

Read the full article by Guy Rogers in The Herald here.

Picture: WERNER HILLS

HR Donkin The Donkin mosaic - which depicts the diverse culture, history and wildlife of Nelson Mandela Bay and the Eastern Cape - is in need of repair.