The future has arrived: most people are using the internet to find and book their travel, and more and more of them are doing it on their mobile devices – which are now allowing them to access a strange new technology called augmented reality. How is South Africa’s tourism industry responding, and what new products [...]

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Imagine you’re the data capture chappy in a busy tour operator’s office and you get an alert from a large and well-known city-style hotel group that explains its latest STO rates, its BARs, its winter/summer/mothers/long-stay/combo/pay-stay/conference/wedding specials, and the difference in rates between tea and petit fours served in smoking and non-smoking rooms. And that guests’ [...]

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If you look at the programme for HICA 2013, you’ll see that one of the panel discussions will be called ‘Hard talk between airlines, tour operators, and hoteliers.’ “What needs to be done to generate the required numbers of tourist to visit the region – address issues such as seasonality, geographic spread, increasing the tourist’s [...]

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South African National Parks (SANParks) and Stormsriver Adventures Pty (Ltd) – operators of the Tsitsikamma Canopy Tours in the Tsitsikamma section of theGarden Route National Park – metFriday, 26 April 2013 in order to find an amicable solution to the current legal impasse. The parties have agreed on a smooth transition period without putting any jobs [...]

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What’s a telescope got to do with technology in tourism? Why should tourism care about a telescope called the SKA? Bandwidth. The SKA, of course, is the Square Kilometre Array: the world’s most powerful radio telescope which ten countries are planning to build in various locations in the Southern Hemisphere – and they’ve chosen to [...]

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