Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 7, 2021
Get the week’s MICE industry news highlights in a quick 2-minute video, brought to you by The Planner. This week we look at the eased level 3 regulations; UFI’s Global Exhibition Barometer research findings; and Marriott International’s...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 7, 2021
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies stopped all business travel while some allowed only essential travel. Now, as vaccination programmes start to roll out around the world, Oz Desai, GM Corporate Traveller, believes things could change;...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 7, 2021
The tourism sector faced a difficult year in 2020. The hope that 2021 would be better was challenged from the start, by increasing infection rates and more lockdown restrictions. However, Dr Nomvuselelo Songelwa (pictured above), the CEO of travel...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 4, 2021
South African domestic airline FlySafair has announced its first regional flight route, between Johannesburg and Port Louis in Mauritius. The twice-weekly service will begin when the borders reopen which, with vaccination programmes having recently...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 3, 2021
A number of new appointments, effective from 01 February 2021, have been announced by City Lodge Hotel Group (CLHG). These include: Shelley Steel has been appointed general manager of Courtyard Hotel Sandton. Steel joined the hospitality...