Starting Small. Start at the Beginning
As you can imagine you start small and at the beginning. We had a Gazebo which lasted ONE week ! Then a second one which lasted 2 weeks. By this point, we had no choice but to erect a Wendy hut.This solved the massive issue we had with the wind destroying our Gazebo.
It worked well and then … the summer rains came. The result was a mud pool right in front of our Hut. SAY WHAT! After staff slipping and a car getting stuck in the mud, we decided to move the hut to a section of the land where this issue would be solved. Thank goodness it worked!
After Omicron calmed down testing became quiet. At the point of writing this article, we plodded along conducting from as little as 8 -15 tests a day. I always say even a small profit is fine as it creates a few jobs and helps others as well as my family.
At last, after 2 years of no business in tourism in March 2022, we finally began to get bookings. Tourism was waking up and starting once again!
I am truly grateful for the opportunity gained by doing Covid 19 testing. It helped us to stay around and helped my family (who had a number of issues that have cost massive amounts of money to “Solve”.)
Tourism I hope and pray is here to stay once again. My passion and my guide’s passion will now be able to flow into giving our clients an amazing Durban South African Safari experience!
