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- Table Mountain National Park attracts 2.8-million visitors in 2023
- Almost 1-million people took trips on the mountain’s aerial cableway
- A record 3.46-million visitors visited the iconic landmark in 2017
The number of visitors to the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town climbed to 2.8-million in 2023. This is a 56% increase on 2022, or an additional 1-million visitors.
The national park is home to Table Mountain and is a Unesco-designated World Heritage site. It had 3.16-million visitors in 2019, close to its record of 3.46-million set in 2017.
Also on the rise are visitors to the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway. Numbers shot up 44% last year to close to 1-million tourists, according to Wesgro, the tourism, trade and investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape. The last time visitors to the cableway were over 1-million was in 2019.
This post-pandemic recovery is mirrored elsewhere, with tourist traffic to the rest of the Western Cape growing by more than a third to 7.7-million. Wesgro’s research shows the domestic market is helping to boost numbers.
— 1 July, 2024Subscribe to the weekly newsletter for more charts like this
