African Pride 15 On Orange Hotel

 

Distinctive architecture, decor that defies categorization and a GUEST service experience extraordinaire sets the African Pride 15 on Orange Hotel apart from any hotel of its kind. This elegant experience begins with an engineered stone red carpet reception set in crisp white Volakas marble.

African Pride 15 on Orange Hotel, Cape Town's newest icon of style, is set in the upmarket suburb of Gardens at the foot of Table Mountain. This ideal location on the fringe of Cape Town's vibrant city centre ensures that GUESTS are within walking distance of the National Museum, the Planetarium, and the Company Gardens - the green jewel in the heart of the metropolis, and in close proximity to superb golf courses and the Long Street Baths.

Exclusive shopping awaits GUESTS at the selection of exclusive retailer outlets while the world-class shopping paradise of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is merely minutes away.

Hop On Hop Off Busses for Joburg

City Sightseeing, the brand that operates the iconic open top red double-decker buses in over 100 cities across the globe, has begun running tours in Johannesburg. City Sightseeing Johannesburg follows a route through the Joburg CBD that offers locals and tourist alike the chance to explore this city, visiting the many attractions on offer and sampling the sights, sounds, colours, cultures and heritage that are all synonymous with Jozi. As with all City Sightseeing tours, Joburg operates on the Hop-On, Hop-Off basis, which allows sight seers the chance to get off the bus at any of the designated stops along the route and then get back on to a later bus at their leisure. Buses run on a rotational basis, stopping at all of the designated points along the route every 40 minutes. Tickets can be purchased from the City Sightseeing Tour Office inside the Gold Reef City Hotel; online at the City Sightseeing website or on the bus using a credit card. Stops along the route include Gandhi Square, the Roof of Africa at the Carlton Centre, the James Hall Transport Museum, the Apartheid Museum and Gold Reef City, the Mining District, the World of Beer, the Carlton Centre, Santarama Miniland, Newtown Precinct, the Origins Centre, Wits Campus, Braamfontein and Constitution Hill. Tours will start from 09h00 until late seven days a week. Tickets for the bus tours will cost R150, discounted to R120 if purchased online.

 

You can also check out their cool Cape Town blog on:

http://citysightseeing-blog.co.za/

 

 

You're invited - Eritrean Airlines

AVIAREPS Airline Mini Fair Cape Town 18 July 2012 at Southern Sun Cape Sun RSVP mfourie@aviareps.com more information to follow closer to the time

AVIAREPS Airline Mini Fair Johannesburg 24 October 2012 Birchwood Hotel RSVP mfourie@aviareps.com more information to follow closer to the time

INDABA 2012 - The annual travel INDABA held in Durban provided the platform to shape the future of the tourism and hospitality industry.

The travel industry converged on Durban last week for the annual travel INDABA. This year’s event proved to be a major success. It provided solid ground for networking, collaboration and profitable partnerships that can only benefit the consumer in the long run.

Known as Africa’s top travel show, INDABA 2012 was all about innovation, communication and quality connections. By the end of business on Tuesday, 15 May, more than 10 700 people had passed through the doors.

The theme of the 4-day event was ‘Shaping our Future Together’. More than
1 500 exhibitors from South Africa and southern Africa agreed that partnerships and collaboration are the order of the day to ensure future growth in the tourism sector
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South Africa’s unique combination of cultures and lifestyles emerged as a major focus point for selling the destination. One only had to look around at the funky stands and colourful traditional gear to see this in action. Responsible tourism was also a major theme, as ‘going green’ is a key focus of the local tourism industry.

This year’s INDABA was also about social media, with #Indaba2012 trending on Twitter for 3 days. This year South African Tourism introduced its INDABA app for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android devices – keeping visitors up to date and minimising the need for printed material.
Minister of Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, attended the event and strongly emphasised the importance of partnerships among everyone in the industry. 'Together, we must keep our eyes on ever-changing consumer preferences, diversify our products, maintain excellent service, innovate our distribution channels, and ensure that we continue to deliver value for money. We must ensure that all our people share in the benefits of our new growth,' he said.

INDABA 2012 took place at the Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC) from 12 to 15 May.