Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 13, 2020
Spier Hotel and Wine Farm in Stellenbosch won gold in the Responsible Business category at the 2020 Inspirational Africa Responsible Tourism Awards. In this category, the judges look for companies which make tourism better across their entire...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 13, 2020
UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has cancelled its European Conference, which was scheduled for 3-5 June at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg, and its co-located Forum on HR, which was scheduled for...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 13, 2020
The Department of Tourism (including all provincial and national tourism entities) has joined forces with International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) and the Southern African Tourism Services...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 9, 2020
The 13-part food and wine series, Wine, Dine & Stein, that was filmed in Cape Town’s Durbanville Wine Valley, has been snapped up by the People°s Weather channel (DStv 180) and will start broadcasting on Sunday, April 19, at 18:00. The...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 9, 2020
South African Tourism (SA Tourism) is undertaking the process of compiling a Tourism Recovery Plan for the sector. As such, they have created a series of webinars in order to engage the Tourism Industry on solutions, scenarios, and a way forward...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 8, 2020
What does the law say about the current situation and your staff? Join labour law expert, Angus Bailie, for an educational webinar exploring how labour law can be interpreted in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this session, Bailie...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 7, 2020
The whole world is grappling with adversity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic – and especially the travel and tourism industry. Therefore Bench Events made a great choice when they invited Dr. Paul G. Stoltz to speak on ‘The greatest...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 7, 2020
In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live and work. The Planner gets real with Trudi Freed, director at the HiSide Group, on the impact that the lockdown has had on their business. When the first cases of COVID-19...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 7, 2020
The Southern African Tourism Services Association (SATSA) is launching a new platform called Discourse, where members and the industry can “connect, collaborate and advise each other”. The platform will feature different forum rooms for each topic,...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 5, 2020
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been devastating; not only to human lives, but also in how the measures necessary to slow its spread are threatening the economic viability of businesses, and will likely result in job losses. The good...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 4, 2020
SDI (Supplier Development Initiative) is an existing services-on-demand platform that uplifts micro-suppliers across multiple industries. Faced with what our President has described as “…a medical emergency far graver then what we have experienced...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 4, 2020
The Strauss & Co art, fine wine and collectables combined online auction will go ahead as planned from Monday 6 – Tuesday 14 April 2020. (You can read more about it here.) Bina Genovese of Strauss & Co and Roland Peens of Wine Cellar...
