Excellence in Tourism Reporting, Kate Els

Other awards were Best New Hotel Investment, Faircity Hotels for Mapungubwe Hotel; Tourism Business Leadership, Adrian Gardiner, CEO of the Mantis Group; and Mover and Shaker, Andrew McLachlan of the Rezidor Hotel Group.

CEO of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, Mmatati Marobe thanked the judging panel, Pieter de Bruin, head of tourism at FNB; Professor Ernie Heath of Pretoria University; Franco Jordaan of Court Classique; Aneme Malan, chief director of Tourism Development at the National Department of Tourism; Jackie Asheeke, CEO of Namibian Federation of Tourism Associations (FENATA); Ben Rootman and Martin van Niekerk from Junxion Communications.