Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 15, 2020
Graham Wood, Sun International Group COO: Hospitality, issued the following statement on 15 August 2020, in response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that South Africa will move into alert level 2 of lockdown from midnight on Monday 17...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 14, 2020
Touch Down Travel Tech (TDTT) is a new business that develops end-to-end technology platforms to better connect tourism suppliers and their customers. Their website explains: “Created to break the model of the typical tourism distribution company,...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 13, 2020
This survey is being done by Shereen Hunter, from the Hunter Group, in order to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on women in the travel tourism and hospitality industries. You can complete the survey here. It will run until the 20th August...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 13, 2020
GL events Group board of directors has announced new top management appointments for GL events South Africa, across the company’s three divisions: Live (event and exhibition infrastructure service solutions); Venue (management of the Johannesburg...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 12, 2020
Working from home can come with its own challenges – especially when you share your limited space with a partner, family and/or pets. Which is why City Lodge is now offering private office spaces in every Courtyard Hotel, City Lodge Hotel, Town...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 11, 2020
Women make over 80% of all travel decisions and are the fastest growing segment of business travellers. For these reasons, Oz Desai, General Manager of Flight Centre Business Travel (FCBT), believes that travel management companies (TMCs) need to...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 11, 2020
NightsBridge online accommodation booking system reported 9 389 bookings across 2 646 properties for the past long weekend, showing that South Africans are eager to escape their homes now that intra-provincial leisure travel is allowed. Theresa...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 10, 2020
Throughout women’s month (August), South Africa’s tourism community will celebrate the role of women in the industry through the #IAmTourism campaign. Women represent 70% of the tourism workforce, a fact that the campaign seeks to highlight, as...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 10, 2020
Tintswalo luxury lodges have introduced a contactless app to improve the experience of guests, while reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Every guest who books into Tintswalo will now receive a link to the Vamoos App, which they are...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 10, 2020
Get the week’s MICE industry news highlights in a quick 2 minutes, brought to you by The Planner Guru. This week we look at the success of the event industry’s #LightSAred campaign for greater support during lockdown, Tintswalo’s...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 9, 2020
Q: How should I deal with the issue of the Consumer Protection Act, Act# 68/2008 (‘the CPA’) the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act #4/2013 (‘POPI’/’POPIA’)? A: The CPA has been around for ten years....
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 9, 2020
Vancouver-based Shawna McKinley has been described as an event sustainability solutionary. She spoke on the ‘Future of Sustainability’ at the Event Manager Blog’s virtual conference ‘The Future of the Event Industry’ on 31 July 2020, where she...
