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Domestic Tourism Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024
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Reference ID
ZAF_2024_DTS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
Metadata
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Feb 10, 2026
Last modified
Feb 10, 2026
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Study authorization
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Access policy
  • Depositor information
  • Distributor information
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    ZAF_2024_DTS_v01_M
    Title
    Domestic Tourism Survey 2024
    Abbreviation or Acronym
    DTS 2024
    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    South Africa ZAF
    Study type
    Domestic Tourism Survey
    Abstract
    The Domestic Tourism Survey is a large-scale household survey aimed at collecting accurate statistics on the travel behaviour and expenditure of South African residents travelling within the borders of the country. Such information is crucial when determining the contribution of tourism to the South African economy, as well as helping with planning, marketing, policy formulation, and the regulation of tourism-related activities
    Kind of Data
    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis
    Households and Individuals

    Version

    Version Description
    Version 01: Edited, anonymized data for public distribution
    Version Date
    2026-01-14
    Version Notes

    Version 1 of this dataset was downloaded from Statistics SA's Isibalo site on 2026-01-10

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey had national coverage

    Geographic Unit

    The lowest level of geographic aggregation in the data is Province

    Universe

    The target population of the survey consists of all private households in all nine provinces of South Africa and residents in workers’ hostels. The survey does not cover other collective living quarters such as students’ hostels, old age homes, hospitals, prisons and military barracks, and is therefore only representative of non-institutionalised and non-military persons or households in South Africa

    Geographic bounding box
    West East South North
    16.3449768409 -34.8191663551 32.830120477 -22.0913127581

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Statistics South Africa Government of South Africa

    Study authorization

    Authorization Date
    1999; 2024
    Agency
    Agency name Affiliation
    Parliament of South Africa Government of South Africa
    Authorization Statement

    Statistics SA is authorised to collect data by the Statistics Act 1999 and Statistics Amendment Act 2024

    Sampling

    Sample frame

    Custodian
    Statistics South Africa
    Sampling Procedure

    Information on sampling can be found in the survey report

    Weighting

    Information on survey weighting can be found in the survey report

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Computer Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI)

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2024 2024
    Time Method
    Cross-section [cross section]
    Frequency of Data Collection

    Annual

    Time periods
    Start date End date
    2024 2024
    Data Collection Mode
    • Face-to-face computer-assisted interviews [CAPI]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation Abbreviation Role
    Statistics South Africa Government of South Africa StatsSA

    Data collectors

    Access policy

    Access conditions

    Use is under a Creative Commons BY attribution only license

    Citation requirements

    Statistics South Africa. Domestic Tourism Survey 2024 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: StatsSA [producer], 2025. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/m0mr-0t48

    Deposit requirements

    The data re-user agrees to send DataFirst a link to research publications that are based on the data.

    Location of Data Collection
    DataFirst data repository
    Archive where study is originally stored
    Statistics South Africa's Isibalo site
    URL for Location of Data Collection

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation URL
    Statistics South Africa StatsSA Government of South Africa
    Date of Deposit
    2026-01-10

    Distributor information

    Distributor
    Organization name Affiliation URL
    DataFirst University of Cape Town
    Date of Distribution
    2026

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Email URL
    DataFirst Support support@data1st.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID
    DDI_ZAF_2024_DTS_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town

    Metadata producer
    Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Group

    Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Identical to a metadata (zaf-statssa-dts-2024-v1) published on DataFirst microdata repository (https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.
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