Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 9, 2021
African Travel Week has extended the submission deadline for ‘Reigniting Africa’ Award entries to 30 June 2021. This new award category was added to the WTM Africa Travel & Tourism Awards at the end of last year, to recognise the most impactful...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 9, 2021
ATTA, the African Travel & Tourism Association, has released the results of its 2021 Travel Recovery SnapShot survey. The key takeaways from the survey show: The Domestic Market was key for accommodation providers with the bulk of bookings...
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...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 2, 2021
The state of the international exhibition industry has been captured in the latest Global Barometer research by UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. This includes a look at the impact of Covid-19 during 2020, as well as...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 2, 2021
Global Hotel Alliance (GHA) is the world’s largest alliance of independent luxury hotel brands and owns the award-winning loyalty programme DISCOVERY. On 01 February 2021, it announced that Sun International will be joining its network in mid-2021....
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 2, 2021
Last night, President Cyril Ramaphosa noted that the rate of Covid-19 infections are declining across South Africa. As a result, a number of lockdown restrictions have been lifted – a decision which has been widely welcomed by the hospitality...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 1, 2021
The state of the international exhibition industry has been captured in the latest Global Barometer research by UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. This includes a look at the impact of Covid-19 during 2020, as well as...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 1, 2021
To help ensure that Covid-19 safety protocols such as mask wearing and social distancing are enforced on its property, the Wild Coast Sun created a new role for Covid-19 safety marshalls over the festive season. “The marshalls are responsible for...
