This Tourism Week 26 March 2010 (Follow-up To Yesterday’s Mail)
TGCSA Changes Deadline Date
Regarding yesterday’s mail (“Is the Tourism Grading Council Nuts”):  it was interesting to read an article posted today by the good people at Tourism Update:
“Comment on new grading criteria by April 9 - TGCSA
“The Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) is […]

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This Tourism Week 25 March 2010
Join Pasella for a visit to The Garden Route Game Lodge on YouTube. (And there’s more information about the Lodge below).
Is The Tourism Grading Council Nuts? Does It Want To Lose Its Customer Base? Or Is It Just Opposed To The Green Revolution?
The new criteria for star grading have been […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALDEfIOYWkI

Wonderful career, tourism. But how many of us remember that?
I thought of this last week when I spent an awesome Sunday with Allan Robertson at his Stonehill Restaurant, in Little Brak River, near Mossel Bay - and realised that if I hadn’t been in tourism, I probably wouldn’t have been there.
See, we’d come to […]

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This year’s Gauteng and Cape Outdoor Eco Adventure and Travel Expos will be offering new exhibition areas called ‘GO EXPLORE.’ Designed specifically for smaller establishments and first time exhibitors, GO EXPLORE will make it possible for businesses like B&B’s and local attractions and adventure companies to market themselves to more than 25,000 consumers in Gauteng […]

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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 […]

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