Reader Unathi Mbadamana  asked me to share this letter with you in the hope that you don’t get similarly caught:
“Good morning Martin
“I would like to share the experience I had with my friends in Long street Cape town. On Saturday 13 February, I went to Long street to fetch my friends from Germany. While I […]

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Seems last week’s e-mail touched a spot with many people in South Africa’s inbound tourism industry. For once, I had only one dissenting opinion (someone who thought a two-tier system was the only way to go…) , but everyone else thought it was time for us to put on our thinking caps and do some […]

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The management team at The Point Hotel, Mossel Bay, is pleased to be able to inform the tourism trade that the property has been released from its contract with FIFA, and now has availability during the 2010 World Cup.
“We’re offering special rates and commission structures for the period - even though we expect that the […]

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Sharon van Wyk is probably one of the few writers in the country (besides me) who calls a tourism spade a spade, and, like me, she has her detractors and her followers. But she doesn’t deserve to be attacked - which she was, verbally, and anonymously - recently.
So she  asked me to post the following […]

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One of the most useful resources on the web is eTurboNews. It’s run out of Hawaii, is published by Juergen Thomas Steinmetz, and this week informed me that, “The Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of South Africa, with the support of UNWTO, will host a Tourism Ministers’ Meeting (T20) under the theme ‘Travel and […]

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