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The Western Cape has Table Mountain and Cape Town. This is also where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet. KwaZulu-Natal, on the eastern seaboard, has the Drakensberg Mountains and Durban with the warm Indian Ocean and ideal settings for surfing championships. Both provinces are the biggest tourism moneymakers for South Africa – enticing foreign tourists [...]

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This week’s tourism face-off is between the North West Province and Gauteng because they are neighbours and the only provinces sharing World Heritage Sites. Both are also situated very centrally in South Africa. Remember to visit our poll at the end.
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Growing at three times the world average, tourism has become one of the most important sectors in South Africa, creating almost a million jobs in ten years and even overtaking gold exports as an earner of foreign currency. With Indaba 2009 still fresh in everyone’s mind, we examine the tourism earning potential of each province [...]

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With today being Indaba’s final day, many visitors to Africa’s largest tourism and travel event can sit back and reflect on what they had seen and learnt during the past four days. The same applies to car rentals. To those who utilised Tempest Car Hire or Budget Rent A Car, the following Face-Off might be [...]

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This week we deviate somewhat from the usual Face-Off structure by comparing our own proudly South African Indaba 2009, to be held in four days’ time to the European World Travel Market 2009, the closest to Indaba’s equivalent on the annual travel and tourism calendar.
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With little more than a week left before two of South Africa’s largest convention centres on opposite sides of the country will each host an important trade fair, we take a look at how the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC Durban) – also known as the ICC Durban iNkosi Albert Luthuli Complex
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Recent Nielsen research results showed that the South African exhibition industry is fifth on the list of media ad spending after TV, print, radio, and outdoor advertising. Based on the total direct expenditure of R74, 3bn, it is estimated that during a full year the exhibition industry contributes R159, 5bn to the national economy.
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Both companies under review this week are major players in the tourism property industry and both invest heavily in this sector. Check out each one’s credentials and decide who you feel might edge slightly ahead in the voting poll. Bear in mind, though, that we’re looking at their core business practice and not comparing the [...]

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Pitting these two majestic casino’s against each other, is almost like a North-South rugby match! Check out their offering and decide for yourself at which casino you’d like to look up Lady Luck. And don’t forget to vote at the end of the article.
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With the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup kickoff in only 443 days, tourism in South Africa is big business. Two of the largest tourism companies realised long ago that it pays to diversify. Thebe Tourism Group and Tourvest don’t offer simple tourism packages anymore. Please participate in the voting poll at the end.
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