Open letter to the Public Protector: Re ‘false billing’ for accommodation
Carmel Rickard is well known as a columnist and writer – but she’s also one of us, and runs her guest house, Trading Places, in Smithfield, in the Free State. Please visit her at http://www.tradingplaces2night.co.za/ – and tell her you…
Nurture vs. Nature: Greenways Hotel in Cape Town
African hospitality, German efficiency, and the grace of the Cape – man, if that isn’t a recipe for rare and exceptional, then what is? I spent three nights at Greenways last week, and it was terribly hard to drag myself…
TripAdvisor / NightsBridge partnership will benefit Africa’s accommodation sector
An innovative partnership between NightsBridge, Africa’s leading online distributor of rooms for B&Bs, guest houses, boutique hotels and lodges, and TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site, was announced in Cape Town today. The partnership will encourage guest reviews and integrate…
Time to rethink South Africa’s destination marketing strategy says Africa’s largest hotel group
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…
NightsBridge closes the information gap
Therese Emerick, co-founder of NightsBridge – South Africa’s dynamic real-time on line booking engine – believes that most tourism businesses are started by people who have great people skills, who love entertaining, or who love a specific outdoor activity. “But…
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