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There are quite a few “booking engines” or “online travel agencies” available to help you perfect your search for your dream vacation. Many of them are quite helpful; while others seem more concerned about the fees they can tack on to your total every step of the way. There are plenty of ways to get [...]

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kulula has introduced a new online payment mechanism called Secure Instant Deposit (SID) that will help speed up and simplify internet transfers. SID is an assisted electronic funds transfer which allows our fans to safely transfer cash directly to kulula using their existing Internet banking facility as an alternative to using a credit card.
“SID is [...]

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With 2009 over and hoteliers feeling more optimistic, HeBS sees two very different approaches to hotel Internet marketing in 2010: on one side, some hoteliers are still extremely cautious when spending marketing dollars; on the other, hoteliers are hitting the ground running with more expansive online marketing budgets and an enthusiasm to participate in new [...]

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There has been some very interesting discussion lately about the value of outsourcing revenue management operations.  With technology available that can manage multiple sales channels, adjust rates in real time based on demand, generate optimal pricing targets determined by competitors’ rates and historical data, and intelligently control yield to maximize RevPAR, many would ask what [...]

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The current news that First National Bank is about to announce their official partnership with PayPal, is definitely music to my ears and will be a HUGE benefit to small tourism entrepreneurs. South Africans have been able to partly use PayPal, limited only to paying for services and products purchased online.
However now with the First [...]

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South African National Parks is currently experiencing a temporary technical problem with the online booking system and is working on getting the system restored.
In the interim, all bookings can be made by calling our Reservations Call Centre at 0124289111.
SANParks apologises for the inconvenience caused and will have the system restored as soon as possible.
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There are quite a few different ways to go about booking travel within your home country, as well as to foreign countries all across the globe. Some of the big guys, such as Expedia and Orbitz have been around for over a decade, yet to refer to them as a “Travel Agency” of any kind [...]

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The latest eTRAK Full Year 2009 report on hotel bookings by channel yet again confirms that today, the online channel is the only growth channel in hospitality. In the difficult economic environment, when travel supply outweighed travel demand by far, Internet bookings for the top 30 hotel brands increased by a remarkable 6.6% in 2009 [...]

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Travelport, one of the world’s leading providers of global distribution systems (GDS), today announced that as part of an ongoing strategy to deliver solutions that better merchandise the products of its customers, that it is selling its GDS advertising exclusively through internal advertising consultants effective January 2010.  With this change, Travelport becomes the only global [...]

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According to recent research conducted by the Online Publishers’ Association (OPA), the South African online publishing industry has increased its readership by about 25% to attract a monthly international readership of 4,38-million readers or unique browsers.
According to the statistics, South Africa’s online publishers attract a highly educated and big-earning audience, with the largest group of [...]

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