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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 [...]

This is a guest post from Ben Rozema.  He also writes blogs for several Palmdale hotels.
Backpacking across regions, countries, and continents began as a way for those rare, risk-taking independent travelers to save their money while getting the greatest cultural experience possible. While it is still a great way to save money, as well as [...]

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 [...]

As a consequence of the strike measures which have been initiated by the “Vereinigung Cockpit” trade union, Lufthansa is making corresponding adjustments to its flight schedule from Monday to Thursday, February 22- 25. Lufthansa flights between South Africa and Frankfurt are currently not affection, however onward connections might be affected and short term cancellations are [...]

South African Tourism, in the run up to the 2010 FIFA World CupTM, has just launched http://mzan.si – a URL shortener that will live beyond the World Cup and is hoped to become the preferred URL shortener for anyone talking about our magnificent country.
Mzansi means “South” (Africa) in Xhosa and is widely used amongst South [...]

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 [...]

Comair Limited, operator of British Airways in South Africa and kulula.com, has weathered a tough six months of negative growth in the local air travel industry to report a marginal increase in attributable profit of 3% to R33-million for the six months ended 31 December 2009. This resulted in headline earnings per share increasing from [...]

If England is knocked out in the early stages of the 2010 World Cup, English fans will be irate, but Cape Town tour operators will be smiling.
According to Martin Jansen van Vuuren, Director of Grant Thornton Strategic Solutions, World Cup spectators whose teams are knocked out in the early rounds of the tournament could be [...]

This article is a guest post from Ryan Frank, a writer for several Palmdale hotels in California.
Throughout third world and fully developed countries, large groups of people live below the poverty line, with inadequate resources to create a future for themselves or their children. For the past century or so, well-to-do families and groups have [...]

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 [...]