{"id":2456,"date":"2024-09-15T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2024-09-15T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:51:26","slug":"ethekwini-is-ready-for-business-this-festive-city-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/ethekwini-is-ready-for-business-this-festive-city-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201ceThekwini is \u00a0ready for business this festive\u201d &#8211; City Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>Gugu Mhlongo<\/em><\/em><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_0615-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2457\"\/><\/figure><p>The City of eThekwini, expects a staggering 1.4 million visitors over this years festive season. The city launched it\u2019s exciting Durban Tourism Summer Campaign on Wednesday, 11 September at the Coastal Lounge Resort in Umgababa. Under the theme, \u2018Endless waves of tranquility\u2019.<\/p><p>Through its roadshows, the city, seeks to position eThekwini as the destination of choice during the festive. It has partnered with local businesses especially within the tourism, hospitality and entertainment sector. With the aim of drawing foot traffic into the eThekwini during the festive in order to boost the province of KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s economy.<\/p><p>To amplify the visitors experience during this period, the city of eThekwini has injected billions of rands in improving the cities infrastructure. A heightened police visibility, fully operational street lights and the fixing of sewerage pipes to ensure cleanliness and sanitization. Speaking at the campaigns launch, city Mayor, Counsellor Cyril Xaba said that \u201cWe want to demonstrate that Durban is ready for business and to deliver a safe and memorable festive season.\u201d He further added that, the city encourages communities to help local businesses to thrive by supporting them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gugu Mhlongo The City of eThekwini, expects a staggering 1.4 million visitors over this years festive season. The city launched it\u2019s exciting Durban Tourism Summer Campaign on Wednesday, 11 September at the Coastal Lounge Resort in Umgababa. Under the theme, \u2018Endless waves of tranquility\u2019. Through its roadshows, the city, seeks to position eThekwini as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[173,174,175,172,176],"class_list":{"0":"post-2456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-visitdurban","8":"tag-visitdurban","9":"tag-cllr-cyril-xaba","10":"tag-durban-summer-campaign","11":"tag-felix-hlophe","12":"tag-festive-season"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlozimagazine.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}