NightsBridge -  the real time booking system for Southern Africa’s smaller accommodation providers – reports that it has been inundated with requests from travel agents, corporates, and tour operators who want to book guest houses and B&Bs on line. “This is an encouraging trend for our clients since the tourism market’s in a bit of [...]

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Media Release Tourvest Destination Management (TDM) is proud to announce the acquisition of Brothers Sport, one of South Africa’s established inbound and outbound sports tour operators. Brothers Sport will fall under the auspices of TDM’s Business and Sport Events division, launched this year. The company is the ideal complement to Indo Jet Sports which, together [...]

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Media Release. Cape Town Tourism The fourth annual E Tourism Africa Summit, sponsored by South African Tourism and Cape Town Tourism, was a resounding success with approximately 300 people attending the two-day summit at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 15 and 16 September 2011. There was significant online buzz during the summit, with [...]

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To Featherbed Nature Reserve, here in Knysna, where Minister for Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, launched the National Minimum Standard for Responsible Tourism on Monday of this week. I think it was a particularly apt venue: Featherbed Nature Reserve is situated on the Western (or ‘natural’) headland of the Knysna Lagoon, and it’s very presence there [...]

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Here’s an interview about advertising in difficult times with the publisher of South Africa’s longest running travel guide: Solomon’s Guide (known for most of its 41-year history as the Southern African Travel Guide). Ian Solomon took over the publication from his father, Laurence, in 2003, revamped it, and put it on line. This Tourism Week [...]

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