The recent liquidation of the Pinnacle Point Group Ltd. has not in any way affected the continued and successful operation of Mossel Bay’s Pinnacle Point Beach and Golf Resort. “It’s important to make it quite clear that the Pinnacle Point Beach and Golf Resort is a separate and independent entity that is definitely not under [...]

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Last Saturday my son announced that he had a blinding toothache, so we whipped him off to the dentist, who declared the tooth unsaveable, and pulled it. Nothing unusual about that, I suppose – but what’s it got to do with tourism? Well, when I came to pay, the girl behind the desk told me [...]

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There’s a company you should know about that’s doing fantastic work among the disadvantaged, and that leads the way when it comes to leveraging  the good that tourism can do. Uthando (Love) South Africa – www.uthandosa.org – is a unique and innovative non-profit that’s accredited with Fair Trade in Tourism and that works to raise [...]

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With so many issues facing the tourism industry, and so many other things to report on, it’s not often that I get to revue properties these days. But ten days ago I had the honour of enjoying breakfast with the members of the Garden Route Editor’s Forum (find it on Facebook).  This informal networking group [...]

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With more than 750 million users, Facebook is one of the biggest communities on the globe – and no tourism product or agency can afford to ignore it. Have you set up your Facebook page yet? Mossel Bay Tourism has – and, cleverly, has used it’s URL as its page name (its web site is [...]

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