Johannesburg - Nothando Mathe has been appointed Country Manager: Southern Africa at South African Tourism. Mathe who started at SA Tourism as Country Manager: SADC is now adding the domestic market to her portfolio. Read more >>

New York - Here at HeBS we firmly believe that a comprehensive, ROI-centric Internet marketing strategy is the hotelier's perfect "survival tool" in the current economic environment. Read more >>

Ol Lentille, Kenya - I came to The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille as a judge for the Amarula Best Retreat in Africa awards and while I was blown away by the quiet, understated beauty of the place, it was the broad smile and infectious giggle of my guide, Maasai Moran Solomon Saidimu, which really impressed me. Read more >>

Jail, Durban - No, you've not misread the dateline. I'm waiting in a rather interesting queue here at Ye Olde Central Gaol preparing to hand myself in. Why? In protest at all the flashing cameras that got pictures of my middle finger on the drive down here, that's why. Read more >>

Gold Reef City, Jozies - I'm standing in a queue. It's my son's 14th birthday and we've brought him and two of his mates from school to Jozies' favourite theme park and one of its biggest tourist attractions. And another six people have just shoved their way past us, joining a growing group further up the line, extending our wait for a few seconds of adrenaline pumping thrill for a few more minutes. Read more >>

Eastern Cape - With African travel becoming a family affair, Shamwari Game Reserve, a property of the prestigious Mantis Collection and Dubai World Africa, will open Sarili, a new luxury lodge exclusively for families on February 16th, 2008. Read more >>

Zwolle - Travelta, a leader in online travel solutions in the Netherlands, announces today the world's first location-based hotel finder for mobile phones at www.travelta.mobi. This mobile website allows users to find and book the nearest available hotels based on their GPS or Cell-ID location. Read more >>

The beach, Southbroom - Here I am, Amarula in hand, toes in the sand, line in the sea hoping to catch some shad and doing what I love best - being a tourist in my own, beautiful country. My boet-in-law is over from Blighty, where, he says, it's blerry freezing. Read more >>

Durban - At least five SA Roadlink buses were impounded along KwaZulu-Natal's busy N3 freeway at the weekend during a massive road blitz, the transport department said on Monday. Spokeswoman Nonkululeko Mbatha said eight luxury coaches were impounded, five of them from SA Roadlink. Read more >>

Mossel Bay - An international travel portal that was started as a way of making developing-world tourism products accessible and bookable on line (in the same way as they are in the West) has appointed Mossel Bay's Back Road Safaris as their local market place operators (MPOs). Read more >>

Sydney - Hotel comparison search engine HotelsCombined.com has released statistics on the effects of anti-government protestors blockading Bangkok airports on hotel operators in Thailand. Read more >>

Lagos - South African Airways (SAA) celebrates its tenth year of operations to Lagos, Nigeria, this month. In 1998, SAA decided to help facilitate the flow of local organisations to Nigeria and so began operations to the country's capital, Lagos. Read more >>