#HICA13: Anticip-pation

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So we’re all in Durban for the Tourism Business Council’s Hotel Investment Conference Africa – HICA 2013 – and by the time you read this we’ll be settling down to two days of talks and deliberations about the event’s chosen…

Boldly going where tourism hasn’t gone before

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The future has arrived: most people are using the internet to find and book their travel, and more and more of them are doing it on their mobile devices – which are now allowing them to access a strange new…

New rates management technology to make everyone’s lives easier

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Imagine you’re the data capture chappy in a busy tour operator’s office and you get an alert from a large and well-known city-style hotel group that explains its latest STO rates, its BARs, its winter/summer/mothers/long-stay/combo/pay-stay/conference/wedding specials, and the difference in…

Airlines and Tourism in Southern Africa. Cleared for takeoff?

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If you look at the programme for HICA 2013, you’ll see that one of the panel discussions will be called ‘Hard talk between airlines, tour operators, and hoteliers.’ “What needs to be done to generate the required numbers of tourist…

What’s a telescope got to do with technology in tourism?

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What’s a telescope got to do with technology in tourism? Why should tourism care about a telescope called the SKA? Bandwidth. The SKA, of course, is the Square Kilometre Array: the world’s most powerful radio telescope which ten countries are…