(Cape Town, 8 April 2012) Tourism industry stakeholders in the Western Cape were given official notice yesterday that destination marketing, investment and trade promotion for the province would now be done by a single, ramped up executing agency to increase the province’s national and global competitiveness as a business and leisure destination. Western Cape Investment [...]

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Let’s make this week’s article a short one, shall we? I want to know what you think Responsible Tourism means, and – more specifically – what VISITORS should be doing to ensure that they  travel responsibly. Please go here look at my presentation on Responsible Tourism below (and download, tweet, share, and even embed it [...]

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South Africa should take its place in the international tourism arena as a destination of choice; not stand cap in hand asking travellers to visit because it’s a “cheap” long haul destination. That’s the word from Danny Bryer, Director of Sales, Marketing and Revenue for the Protea Hospitality Group, which is the largest in Africa [...]

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Being in tourism means that we sometimes play with people’s lives. Adventure operators especially – people who take visitors down into the earth, or swimming with fantastic creatures, or even (in time to come) into outer space, know the risks – so they have the insurance. And even you, who provides ‘only’ a bed and [...]

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This Tourism has a laugh with Joey as he quits his job in a swanky American hotel… .

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