The question of ethics in tourism came onto my radar again recently when our game drive started an hour late - and our supper started two hours late - because the lodge’s programme had been held up by a group of guides who couldn’t get their act together to leave town early enough to allow […]

There may be those amongst my readers who think I’m opposed to the World Cup. I’m not. I think if we manage it well from here on out, it has the potential to be the best thing that ever could have happened to this country - and even to its neighbours - because even if […]

This Tourism Week. 4 March 2009. Brought to you by SOMOHO TOURS www.somoho.co.za (See below for more).
There’s one really thorny problem that comes from being both a tourism destination and a developing country all in one: the fraught question of gift-giving (yes: ‘gift-giving’ - definitely not ‘gifting.’ Terrible word).
I was reminded of this recently when […]

Media release February 24, 2010
Cape Town for World Design Capital 2014
The City of Cape Town is bidding to become the World Design Capital in 2014!
Do you think that Cape Town is a design city? What changes would you like to see that could make your city a World Design Capital?
The decision to bid for the […]

At its best, Africa is a great place for kids - and for their adults, too.
The excitement of the wildness of things, the excitement of the things that you can discover, and the wonder of the things that you can do in the African bush have always been unique in the world - so there’s […]