9.6 Decrease in inbound bookings due to new immigration regulations The Committee observed that most private sector organisations affiliated to the Tourism Business Council of South Africa reported a decrease in forward bookings, especially from India and China, due to the new immigration regulations to start operating on the 1st June 2015. The Committee has also noted results of the study commissioned by the Tourism Business Council which iindicates that the country may lose 270,000 international tourists. This would in turn will result to 21,000 jobs lost annually and loss inadvertently cost South Africa R9.7 billion in revenue.