Oceania Cruises has announced that it will resume cruise operations with the 1,250-guest Marina in August, beginning with sailings to Scandinavia and Western Europe...
Award organisers, Gerom Media is calling on all destinations such as provinces, cities, districts, towns hotels, guesthouses, and tourist attractions to nominate and list their videos on the awards website...
It's been a year since that fateful day when we prepared to shut down...
Deidre Davids 26 Apr 2021
The Department of Tourism, working together with the industry, developed the plan, outlining a set of interventions to ignite the recovery of the sector, and to place it on a path to long-term sustainability...
Airlink will also resume its Nelspruit-Livingstone service...
Tshepo Matlou, head of marketing and communications at Jurni, has a look at 5 important booking trends to watch out for - and to capitalise on - for the duration of 2021...
Tshepo Matlou 21 Apr 2021
The four-star 168-room Courtyard Hotel Waterfall City in Midrand opened on 1 March 2021, headed up by opening general manager Brendan Luttig...
Issued by City Lodge Hotel 20 Apr 2021
Cresta Hotels, one of Southern Africa`s largest hotel and business groups, has launched its very first South African hotel, Cresta Grande Cape Town...
The global travel industry will only return to a new norm when the whole world is ready to travel under a unified system...
Briony Brookes, head of PR and communications at Cape Town Tourism unpacks marketing brand Cape Town Tourism during one of the toughest years in the tourism industry...
Robin Fredericks 15 Apr 2021
With international travel restrictions limiting the number of foreign visitors, locals have a unique opportunity to travel South Africa without the crowds...
Issued by Domestic Flights South Africa 14 Apr 2021
After lockdowns and bans on flying, tourists will have high expectations and demands.
Katerina Antoniou 13 Apr 2021
The virtual event featured a content programme with over 40-panel discussions and presentations by 170 international and Africa speakers on tourism-related trends in Africa and beyond...
Entries are open for the WTM World Responsible Tourism Awards 2021, with this year's ceremony including a series of Global Awards for the first time...
Travel professionals from around the globe kicked off Africa Travel Week on 7 April 2021 with over 1,000 meetings and 15 content sessions all aimed at #MakingTravelHappenAgain...
The new-build property is the first ibis hotel in the UK to showcase Accor's new Plaza-design throughout...
The audience of delegates and attendees comprised 87 corporate and leisure travel agents, direct corporate travel bookers, inbound tour operators, event managers, PCOs and DMCs...
Satsa's Access, Inclusivity and Diversity Committee, under the guidance of the Satsa Eastern Cape Chapter Chair, Mandisa Magwaxaza, has joined forces for good with a member association in the Eastern Cape to pioneer a Proof of Concept that will become a blueprint for sustainable transformation of ownership...
As local business relief initiatives come to a close, many small and medium enterprises continue to struggle with an unfortunate number of businesses' liquidity eroded by the Covid-19 pandemic...
Evan-Lee Courie 31 Mar 2021
The Tourism Business Council of South Africa CEO, Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa was recognised for successfully spearheading the re-opening of the tourism industry in South Africa, following the extended national lockdown put in place by government in March 2020...
If spectators are permitted, the Lions Tour is expected to bring about 30,000 Lions fans and R6bn in direct and indirect spend to South Africa...
Through its Board Development Fund, Cape Town Tourism in partnership with the City of Cape Town is helping tourism SMMEs get back on their feet...
Digital marketing specialist, Incubeta has been appointed as a global digital media partner to South African Tourism. The three-year deal will see Incubeta help maximise technology investment across all 27 of South African Tourism's operating regions...
FCM's latest white paper has revealed that although New Zealand leads the way when it comes to domestic business travel recovery, South Africa claims second place in the race to recovery, reaching up to 25% of pre-Covid travel volumes...
On 17 March, the Department of Tourism hosted its 2021 Tourism Research Webinar. This year's webinar was topical as it looked at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the tourism sector and the potential opportunities going forward...
Covid-19 has taken its toll on South Africa's hospitality industry, but there is still light at the end of the tunnel. Kevin Burley, group operations director at ANEW Hotel & Resorts, shares his expertise on industry trends for the next 12 months and adapting to the new normal...
Kevin Burley 16 Mar 2021
The fully-virtual Africa Travel Week, comprising World Travel Market Africa (WTMA) and International Luxury Travel Market Africa (ILTMA), is now open for registrations for media and trade.
The pandemic has exposed inequalities in society. There is concern that tying freedoms to vaccinations may further disadvantage vulnerable groups...
Yara M. Asi 15 Mar 2021
British Airways, operated by Comair, has announced the reopening of bookings for flights between Johannesburg and Victoria Falls for travel starting 13 May 2021...
South African Tourism through its business unit, Tourism Grading Council of South Africa is re-imagining the future of speed marketing by hosting virtual sessions for the second time...
Female thought leaders in the travel and tourism industry share what their areas of focus were for yesterday and 2021, and what advice they have to other women fighting the good fight in the travel and tourism industries.
Jenna Berndt 9 Mar 2021
The International Tourism and Investment Summit's partnership with World Travel Market will leverage each companies' strengths and commitment to propel growth in travel and tourism through innovation in products, destination marketing and investment in sustainable development and infrastructure...
With the arrival of vaccines in the country, Kenya is set to begin its Covid-19 vaccination roll-out...
Catherine Kyobutungi 8 Mar 2021
As President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a return to Level 1 this week, there is a renewed sense of positivity in the air and the potential for new beginnings...
Oz Desai 5 Mar 2021
The Western Cape Government and Wesgro, in partnership with Airbnb, has launched a campaign to promote remote working domestically, as South African's take advantage of the flexibility that working from anywhere brings...
The user-friendly mobile app will provide support in helping to restart tourism, business, sports, events and job creation on a national level...
The Radisson Hotel Group has rolled our its first Radisson Individuals property in Africa, with the signing of Earl Heights Suites Hotel, a member of Radisson Individuals, Accra, Ghana...
Google Arts & Culture, in partnership with SA Tourism, has launched an online exhibition called "South Africa: An Explorer's Paradise"...
The weekly flights will be operated across Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg...
A study conducted by the South African Tourism Insights and Analytics team and the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa has shown that 95% of the graded establishments were confident with their level of implementation of the Covid-19 protocols...
In a year in which the ground shifted seismically under our feet, where the collective travel industry is focused on survival rather than award show glory, are awards still relevant?
Linsey Schluter 15 Feb 2021
The International Tourism Film Festival Africa has opened entries for the international version of their event; the deadline for submissions is 15 March 2021...
Travel trends ebb and flow, but nothing has reshaped the way that people plan, book and travel quite like Covid-19. While 2020 put paid to many a trip (almost overnight), 2021 will give us the first taste of travel and tourism in a post-pandemic world...
By re-injecting gas revenues into the economy and facilitating infrastructural development nation-wide, Mozambique can realise its goal of becoming a regional tourism leader...
Charné Hundermark 8 Feb 2021
Business travel took a massive hit in 2020 as Covid-19 led to travel restrictions, border closures and lockdowns. Many companies introduced complete travel bans for their employees, while others opted for essential travel only...