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The Black Management Forum (Western Cape) is proud to host a business breakfast with the National Minister of Tourism, Mr. Marthinus Van Schalkwyk and call on your support to make this yet another successful BMF initiative.
THEME “National Government policy on Tourism Post 2010 and its impact on Economic Growth, Job Creation, Enterprise Development and  Transformation [...]

South African Tourism’s new Chief Executive Officer, Ms Thandiwe January-McLean is keenly aware that she takes up the reigns at the destination marketing organisation at a momentous time in the tourism industry’s history.
The nation and the industry stood on the cusp of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the rich legacy it promised. South African [...]

Singita Game Reserves, Africa’s premier operator of luxury game lodges, has appointed New Zealand-born Robert Walker as Head Chef at the award-winning Singita Lebombo lodge.
Located on the far Eastern reaches of the Kruger National Park, bordering Mozambique, Singita Lebombo is renowned for its exceptional gourmet cuisine, where delicious riverside bush breakfasts and pool-side dinners are [...]

It seems that everyone is a tweeter these days, but if you’ve still not signed up for your Twitter account here’s a great reason to join the micro-blogging site.  Acacia Africa has teamed up with AfricaFreak.com, TravelComments.com and PlanYourSafari.com, the three expert safari bloggers judging the tour operator’s Wild Tweep entries (http://bit.ly/5gbT1f).  One for South [...]

I tried really hard to like this site. I did. But I have to say, I’m sorry, I just couldn’t. I can see what it is that they are trying to achieve and where the ideas were meant to be going, but I don’t think it does the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation any justice. At [...]

Exactly one month ago to the day I addressed a spontaneously organised meeting by a well-wisher here in Johannesburg and got a big surprise. Why this is so will become apparent as my story unfolds.
What I said then was that in 1995 I started an NGO called Open Africa with the vision to link the [...]

Ross Kennedy, the Chief Executive of Zimbabwe based tourism group, Africa Albida Tourism, has been appointed to the Board of Advancing Tourism To Africa (ATTA) for 2010.
The recognition which such an appointment brings means “the world” to the born and educated Zimbabwean. “At last we can shout in our corner and be heard”, says Ross [...]

Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Tourism, welcomed one of the largest tourism industry delegations to the country and expressed his confidence that the delegation would be impressed by South Africa’s depth of offering as a long term investment market.
“Germany is one of our most important source markets in terms of foreign arrivals and we [...]

With all the hype about the hundreds of thousands of foreign soccer fans who are expected to stream into South Africa for the FIFA World Cup in June and July – what are South African holidaymakers going to do this winter? Especially since many of the country’s hotels and lodges are expecting to be fully [...]

Comair Limited, operator of British Airways in Southern Africa and kulula.com announced it will be expanding its African route network and will soon commence with scheduled flights from Johannesburg to Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania and to Walvis Bay in Namibia.
The airline was granted the rights to the two new African routes by the South [...]