Media release February 24, 2010
Cape Town for World Design Capital 2014
The City of Cape Town is bidding to become the World Design Capital in 2014!
Do you think that Cape Town is a design city? What changes would you like to see that could make your city a World Design Capital?
The decision to bid for the […]

At its best, Africa is a great place for kids - and for their adults, too.
The excitement of the wildness of things, the excitement of the things that you can discover, and the wonder of the things that you can do in the African bush have always been unique in the world - so there’s […]

The Tourism, Sport & Mega Events International Summit - which included the first T20 Tourism Ministers Meeting - ended in Johannesburg yesterday, and I’m flippin sorry I wasn’t there.
Thank goodness for the Internet, though, where I found the speech that Talip Rifai delivered on Tuesday at the opening of the T20 Meeting (um - the […]

SOUTH AFRICA – a Pocket Memento - Perfect for presentation gifts and curio shops - Just right for 2010 visitors

I’ve only recently become aware of HPH Publishing, which specialises in the creation of books and images of particular interest to the tourism industry.
After working with various publishing companies with mixed success, the photographers behind HPH […]

Monday 22 February 2010: Statement By The Office Of The Minister Of Tourism, Mr. Marthinus Van Schalkwyk
World Cup Accommodation Prices – Survey To Be Conducted
There has always been a common understanding between Government and the tourism industry that inflating accommodation prices during the 2010 FIFA World Cup will be detrimental to the sustainability of the […]