2021 WESSA Annual Review

TOURISM BLUE FLAG PROJECT

The Green Coast award continues to grow steadily with additional structures and efforts put in place to support our newly registered sites on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape. Here our unit is partnering with the Schools and Youth unit to place Groen Sebenza graduates with each of our partner municipalities to ensure that these new sites get the attention they need to stay on the programme. We continue to see wonderful buy- in from the local communities living around these sites who are all getting stuck into coastal cleanups and monitoring work to ensure that their sites maintain this unique coastal award. The growth and strengthening of Blue Flag nationally is extremely well supported by our Tourism Blue Flag project which has successfully trained and placed 200 youth at strategic coastal tourism sites in Kwa- Zulu Natal, the Eastern and Western Cape provinces . While our project and training teams faced extremely inconsistent working conditions, they remained resilient throughout and were able to pivot to online mentoring and training platforms when all learners were forced to stay at home for mandatory lockdowns set by government. WESSA GREEN COAST

Tourism Blue Flag project successfully trained and placed 200 youth at strategic coastal tourism sites.

BLUE FLAG AND GREEN KEY SITES

21

9

10

1

36

6

4

2

Full Status Beaches

4

Sustainable Boating Operators Marinas Pilot Beaches

32 Annual Review 2020-2021