Follow the “READ MORE” more link below for a 360 degree virtual tour of Indaba 2010; it’ll give you a good idea of the scale of the event. The Global Media Face-off was held at Moses Mabhida Stadium, and you’ll see that from the inside, too.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is great Martin, thank you for sharing this Virtual Tour of the 2010 Tourism Indaba!
I really enjoyed attending again this year, and meeting with you.
I am sure a lot of people tell you this, but I believe one can never get enough confirmation for a job well done. I love your newsletter and the fact that you do take issues head on.
I am sure you know the feeling when returning from INDABA and you get an nice personal e-mail from an exhibitor thanking you for the time you took to talk to them and you honestly can not remember who they are. Well I always thought it must have been one of the nice people I meet over coffee and although we had no mutual business interests we did have a nice chat and exchanged cards. Feeling a bit guilty that they took the time to send me an e-mail, when I had forgotten about them, I always made a point of writing back. I also made sure that I keep the card, and by know I have a small box of cards I have accumulated over the past 16 years.
This year so far I have received 28 e-mails thanking me for the time I took to see them at INDABA and I even received an e-mail thanking me for the wonderful chat and apologising that they had lost my business card and could I please e-mail her my details. Wow did I have a lot of coffee, 7 a day, that is an all time high for me, but luckily I do not have to find an AA to help me cure my obvious caffeine addiction, as I was not at INDABA this year. Needless to say this year I am free of any feelings of guilt, have not taken the time to write a nice e-mail back or kept any cards (well I did not have any to keep).
What I have realised is that one of the wonderful things about INDABA are the great areas to sit and enjoy a good cup of coffee and have a wonderful chat, often with total strangers. It is not the business meetings I really missed, it is meeting and talking to people from all over the world, who all have a friendly, open way about them, as is so often the case in tourism. I also realised how many people I have meet over the past 16 years at INDABA, who have become “INDABA friends”. We do not see or communicate all year round, but every INDABA we make a point of seeing each other to say hi and have a short chat. Some of them have been at INDABA since way back when it was still held in Johannesburg, in a small conference room at some hotel. Sorry I did not make it this year for our little chat.
Now the only question remaining is what do I do with the small box of cards collected over the past 16 years, do I chuck it in the bin and forget about them, or do I keep them, just in case one of them was in fact one of the nice people I had a chat with over a good cup of coffee?
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