Hi, am Muzi Mohale from Travelwires.com and who are you?
21. Oct, 2009
19 Comments
This exercise is meant to offer you an opportunity to introduce yourself and your tourism business to the Travelwires.com community. As many of you will know by now, I’m the blogger, administrator, accounting clerk, basically everything about Travelwires.com is my responsibility.
There are a handful of the readers I know, especially those that send me emails and comment on posts published. However this is not enough, I need to know who the majority of my readers are, what attracts them to Travelwires.com and what would you like added or removed to make your browsing experience complete?
A typical example, on how to introduce yourself:
I’m Muzi Mohale, based in Roodepoort (South Africa). Blogger with www.travelwires.com and can be connected on social media sites twitter: travelwires and facebook: travelwires. Love Travelwires.com since I get to travel our beautiful country through blogging and get first hand tourism experience. My wish is to get more tourism products using the freely available online resources such as booking engines, social media and to have properly designed websites that will result in improved bookings.
My name is Muzi Mohale a full-time travel blogger, your host at Travelwires.com responsible for all editorial on this blog. I blog about the travel and tourism industry in Africa. Apart from blogging about tourism, I also run 
Hi, I’m not a product owner or service provider but I lecture at University of Pretoria (Dept Tourism Management). As my field of interest is destination marketing, Travelwires provides excellent current info on the industry and great material for student discussions. Thanks for that.
Appreciate the compliment Elizabeth and I welcome guest posts from your tourism students.
Hie, i am Nkosilathi Moyo.I am a front office officer at a leading Cape Town Boutique Hotel. My main interests is in marketing and communications strategy for the hotel and tourism industry. I have an honours in hospitality and tourism from Chinhoyi University of technology. My interests on travel wires are mainly to do with marketing strategy as well as destinations management strategies in addition to arising trends in the business.
Having seen Elizabeth’s post above and your response to it, i believe this blog has potential to provide more insight to students as well as it provides an enlightened source of information which opens them up to the realities prevalent in the industry.
I have also found a lot of the interviews that you have carried out with industry leaders quite helpful as far as shaping careers is concerned and it will be awesome if we had more dosage in that regard in addition to increasing the blog presence such that it is available to those that are still disillusioned as to what career paths they would like to take up. I believe career guidance should feature prominently too.
To close, this is a great site. I looove it
@Nkosilathi Moyo, Am glad that you find value with interviews and will ensure they return.
Hello Muzi, I stumbled upon your website today whilst doing press research. I am a tourism consultant, based in the UK and am working for Cape Town Tourism as the new UK press and trade representative.
There are an increasing number of websites, networking sites, blogs etc on the World Cup, tourism to and within South Africa and associated opportuntites, but it is becoming a full-time job knowing which ones to support. I will be keeping an eye on your site.
Appreciate the intro Mary and congrats on being appointed Cape Town Tourism UK’s representative, am always impressed with their proactive nature of conducting business. How I wish other tourism authorities could adopt that attitude in marketing tourism in their respective provinces.
Hey,
I really like your site, and hope it does very well!
Zipping Zebra is our company name, and we are a company specializing in tailor made tours to Southern Africa. We are based in Cape Town, and are associated with some very well known and established tour operators.
We tailor make tours for individuals and groups to South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
We can be contacted on twitter (http://twitter.com/zippingzebra) also on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/southafricatours), and of course our own website http://www.zippingzebra.com.
We are already following your twitter account Muzi
I hope you have great success in growing your readership.
South Africa Tours´s last blog ..Win with Zipping Zebra
Good day Muzi,
We are an established national car rental company in South Africa and Namibia, and have been in operation since 1990. We have branches at all major airports in South Africa and Namibia.
Our website is http://www.cabs.co.za and we also have a facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Cape-Town-South-Africa/CABS-Car-Hire/33712041524
I wish you much success with this blog, your posts are relevant and informative.
Hello,
We are a very new company, and also trying to grow our customer base. We have a website which is a work in progress http://www.skyrun.tv, our angle is that we have video flyovers of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. We are also have a twitter account, http://twitter.com/skyruntv
The site is still in its infancy, but getting there. I enjoy reading this blog, you have some interesting information.
Good luck for the future
SA Travel portal´s last blog ..Skyrun Facebook Competition
Dear Muzi,
We are new to your blog, and can see it has good potential. We have self catering chalets in Knysna that we offer to visitors to the area, and are a well established company.
Website: http://www.knysnariverclub.co.za
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/knysnaaccommodation
I will check back regularly to read your latest posts
Chat soon!
-Done
Greetings all!
We are a car rental company based in Windhoek Namibia, trading as Okavango Car hire. We also have two guest houses, one in Windhoek (http://www.windhoekguesthouse.com) and one in Swakopmund (http://www.swakopmund-guesthouse.com). Our main website for Okavango Car hire is Http://www.windhoekcarhire.com, and we also have a facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Windhoek/Windhoek-Car-Hire/121222519090
We like to read about the SA tourism market because it does have an impact on the tourism in Namibia, so I do like to read your website.
Bye for now!
- Rudi
Windhoek Car Hire´s last blog ..Windhoek Car hire Namibia
Hi Muzi,
Your positive attitude regarding encouraging up and coming business people is what makes your website a bomb. Going through all the comments posted here, makes one take a note that you are doing something right. That is greatly appreciated by so many people.
Keep up the good work.
We are also an up and coming business entity, specializing in traditional wear, be it Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa and any South African cultural group. We dress the nation as far as traditional wear is concerned. We have just had a big project where we dressed four schools, comprissing of more than fourty students per school in Dundee Kwazulu Natal during the heritage day celebration. Our website is http://www.mthembuleatherworks.co.za and our email is info@mthembuleatherworks.co.za. We are based in Soweto, Jabulani.
@Maqhawe, Your compliments are much appreciated. You’re offering an authentic service, are you in contact with wedding planners, since your service could compliment their offering?
Muzi Mohale´s last blog ..Views Boutique Hotel & Spa joins Mantis Collection
hi,my name is olumide and am based in lagos,nigeria.i am a tour operator specializing in west-africa tours and of recent got interested in southern african tours..i love travel wires for its uniqueness and resourcefulness but i would love to see more of training resources for tour operators.
Welcome Olumide and thank you for reading Travelwires. I’ll consider your request and also welcome tourism news from Nigeria as well…from what I’ve seen on CNBCAfrica, hotel accommodation is Nigerian is pretty expensive as your rates are in US dollars.
Muzi Mohale´s last blog ..French luxury travel magazine Hôtel&Lodge honours Singita Sasakwa Lodge
by the way…how do i post tourism news from nigeria?
send them to myself on muzi[at]travelwires[dot]com.
Hi, looks like I am getting on this is a bit late.. Non the less., my name is Peter Fabricius. I am based in Cape Town, South Africa. I am a graphic/web designer and travel marketer. I own and run Tourism is Sexy, a creative tourism industry blog. The blog primarily focuses on tourism marketing advice to tourism SMME's and also providing creative resources to the tourism and travel industry. The site can be found at http://www.peterfabricius.com.
I have been working as the Africa Programme Development Manager for whl.travel, a global travel network focusing on responsible travel. I will however, from March 2010, work as a full time web designer and marketer for CityGuideSa.
I first became acquainted with Muzi when he offered to list my job ad on Travelwires during my search for a LAMP Developer in cape Town. I have however been following travelwires.com for a while. It has been my source for African travel news for quite a while now. Thanks Muzi.
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It's been a pleasure getting to know you Peter and I welcome your insightful contribution in building the tourism industry especially within the SMME sector.
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