Unusual getaway: Outeniqua Moon Percheron Stud
Spent an awesome weekend with the family at Outeniqua Moon. The farm offers self-catering accommodation, and it’s perfect for kids: my 5-year-old grandson was in heaven. Feeding the horses, going on a cart ride, and even getting a chance to…
Mossel Bay is going to become a major evotourism destination
Now here’s an idea I like: Evotourism. It seems to have been created by Smithsonian magazine, although I would argue that it’s something we’ve been doing in tourism ever since the ‘grand tour,’ which young ladies and gentlemen would take of…
The Point Hotel, Mossel Bay: Upgrades and upbeat
2012 started on a high note for Mossel Bay’s iconic The Point Hotel, with occupancies approaching the heady days of 1995, when South Africa was enjoying its initial tourism boom. “2011 was an excellent year for us, with good growth…
Defining Responsible Tourism
There’s always one. Here I was excitedly babbling on about responsible tourism, when Dave Jack, the CEO of BnB Sure, and a great friend of This Tourism Week, wrote to me and said: “That’s nice. But what IS responsible tourism?”…
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