I’m happy to announce that Travelwires has been shortlisted on the ‘The Kulula.com Best Travel Blog’ category. SA Blog Awards is a competition that recognizes the role played by bloggers in the social media space. Please help us win this category prize by voting from 1-17th September 2010 for Travelwires below, the more votes we [...]
Hilton Worldwide appoints new Area President, Operations, Middle East and Africa
Rudi Jagersbacher to replace the retiring Jean-Paul Herzog at the beginning of 2011 Hilton Worldwide today announced that Rudi Jagersbacher will become Area President, Operations, Middle East and Africa, for the hospitality company, effective January 1, 2011. Jagersbacher will replace Jean-Paul Herzog, who will retire from Hilton Worldwide at the end of the year after [...]
Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk launches Tourism Month
Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the Minister of Tourism, said today with the launch of the annual Tourism Month commemoration that foreign arrivals to South Africa for the first four months of 2010 had risen by more than 350 000 compared to the same period in 2009. “Our foreign arrivals continue to reflect the consistent growth [...]
Mount Grace Country House and Spa empowers employees to reach new heights
Last Sunday, myself and wife were hosted by Mount Grace Country House and Spa who held a Merit Awards Gala evening for their staff members. It was an elegant affair for the staff members who are responsible for keeping the property running smoothly and ensuring that guests return in future. There was also a music [...]
Hertz Divisional Chief Executive cycles for charity
The new Divisional Chief Executive of Hertz Car Rental, the number one leading car rental company in the world, will be working up a sweat when he takes part in the Change a Life Cycle tour to show that he is serious about changing lives. Hertz are known as a company who give back, and [...]
Camp Jabulani scoops Conde Nast Traveler World Savers Award
The 5-star Camp Jabulani, Hoedspruit, a proud member of the Relais & Châteaux Association has been awarded the highly coveted ‘Conde Nast Traveler World Savers Award’ due to the luxury elephant safari-camp’s exceptional commitment to the environment through its impressive sustainable energy and recycling policies, extensive educational programmes for staff, as well as local communities [...]
“Statistics prove ‘luxury’ is not just in their name” – Cape Royale
The winner of the World Luxury Hotel Award for the past two years, Cape Town’s Cape Royale Luxury Hotel has in its 30 months of existence catapulted itself into one of the international greats in the hotel industry in Southern Africa. The hotel’s popularity was reflected in the latest figures produced by STR Global for [...]
Tourvest consolidates hotel and lodge portfolio
Tourvest Products, a division of the Tourvest group of companies, is in the process of consolidating its portfolio of owned and managed hotels and lodges under a single umbrella in order to take advantage of growth opportunities presented by an improved economic outlook and spin offs from the World Cup. Tourvest successfully handled the travel [...]
Ten ways to increase hotel bookings with the help of twitter
Twitter is a free social networking service that allows you to read the information that others update (called tweets) in the form of short messages. It can be used as a very successful marketing strategy. You being a marketing executive of a hotel or someone who simply markets for the hotel can get a lot [...]
Thebe Exhibitions to host first Sports and Events Tourism Exchange
The first annual Sports and Events Tourism Exchange will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 27 to 29 July 2011. Owned and managed by the Thebe Exhibitions and Projects Group (TEPG) and supported by South African Tourism (SAT), the event will showcase South Africa’s experience and expertise in hosting and managing [...]
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