Travelwires.com

ITB Berlin, one of the largest travel trade and consumer shows in Europe, kicked off on 10 March 2010 with Turkey as official partner country, it was a sunshine-inspired theme.  ITB Berlin took place on the fairgrounds of Messe Berlin with 10 – 12 March 2010 being reserved for trade visitors and 13 – 14 [...]

Share

Limpopo has done it once again when Harambee Guest House, owned  by Nondlandla Masuku, won the inaugural Guest House of the Year Award  in Sandton, Johannesburg.  The “Southern Sun Book-a-Guest House”  is a social responsibility programme initiated by Southern Sun Hotels in 2005 with the purpose of training and mentoring previously disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the [...]

Share

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 [...]

Share

Tourism stakeholders will gather in East London on Monday, 15 February 2010 to sign off the resolutions taken at the Eastern Cape Tourism Summit that took place in November last year.
The Summit sought to provide a broad roadmap on what the Eastern Cape can do to become a  destination of choice in the next five [...]

Share

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 [...]

Share

Buccaneers Lodge and Backpackers is situated in Chintsa West, 35km north of East London on the Wild Coast. Owned by the Price family, Buccaneers is known for its good range of accommodation, designed to suit any type of traveller. A highlight of the Buccaneers’ experience is the great choice of trips and activities on offer.
FTTSA [...]

Share

The results of an independent accommodation survey conducted by capeinfo.com and endorsed by Cape Town Tourism, show that reports on overpricing by accommodation establishments are based on perception rather than reality.  The survey was launched in January to establish accommodation booking and pricing trends for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and revealed that the majority [...]

Share

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 [...]

Share

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 [...]

Share

One of the resolutions that were made at the Tourism Summit which took place in November last year was the fast tracking of transformation of the tourism industry. Following this, the Eastern Cape Tourism Board (ECTB) together with the Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP) launched the Tourism Mentorship Programme in East London at an event that [...]

Share