Media Release: SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISM May 16, 2013 A modern, cutting-edge INDABA 2013, which significantly enhanced networking connections to stimulate tourism trading between buyers and exhibitors, was the hallmark of the most advanced edition of Africa’s top travel show to date. Taking a practical technological leap, while staying true to the importance of personal interaction [...]

My responsible touirsm presentation for Ugu South Coast Tourism (to be delivered 15 May) was featured on SlideShare’s home page today. Here’s the tweet from SlideShare:   ‘Responsible Tourism May 2013′ by @martinhatchuel is featured on our homepage. slidesha.re/12of1fX — SlideShare Today (@SlideShareToday) May 13, 2013   … and here’s the presentation Responsible Tourism May [...]

Change – and how we see our neighbours on the continent – were very much part of the second and final day of the Tourism Business Council’s Hotel Investment Conference Africa (HICA 2013). “My story about doing business on the continent has never been about anything but inspiration, has never been about anything else other [...]

Change was very much a focus of the first day of HICA 2013: I’ve already written about ‘Hard talk between airlines, tour operators, and hoteliers’ – the session that was moderated by Paul Bannister, CEO of strategic marketing consultancy Ignite: I quoted him as saying, “I’m hoping to wake the audience up to the principle [...]

So we’re all in Durban for the Tourism Business Council’s Hotel Investment Conference Africa – HICA 2013 – and by the time you read this we’ll be settling down to two days of talks and deliberations about the event’s chosen theme: ‘Shifting Gear – a focus on Southern Africa.’ And what can we expect this [...]