Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 22, 2020
The Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) is proud to host Africa’s leading meetings industry event, Meetings Africa, from 24 to 26 February 2020, and play a role in helping to grow the business tourism industry. Shaun Bird, GM of SCC, says he has...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 18, 2020
Tourism New Zealand has undertaken to plant an indigenous tree for each of the 140 guests attending its Asia Pacific Incentives Meetings Event (AIME) Hosted Buyer Breakfast. Trees that Count, a conservation charity, will plant the trees across New...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 16, 2020
Virgin Atlantic has announced that it will be offering direct flights between London Heathrow and Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) as a seasonal service, as of 25 October 2020. Liezl Gericke, Head of Africa, Middle East and India, at Virgin...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 10, 2020
Hard hats and corporate wear were replaced with black tie glamour, as the South African exhibition industry turned up for the fifth ROAR Awards ceremony held on Friday 31 January 2020, at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. Hosted jointly by...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 9, 2020
Certification is one of the most effective ways to prove an event was sustainably managed, but up until now South Africa did not have a system in place to assess these labels and ensure they met a prescribed minimum standard. This is about to...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 6, 2020
The City Lodge Hotel Group (CLHG) has 61 properties (and growing) across Africa, which will all be serving exclusively cage-free eggs by 2025. This will include not only shell eggs, but also liquid eggs and processed products that contain eggs....
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 3, 2020
At the end of January 2020, the Board of the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), staff, colleagues and industry stakeholders said their goodbyes to Julie-May Ellingson, and thanked her for her significant contribution as Chief...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 3, 2020
SAACI, the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry, has launched a student outreach programme for youth who want to enter the business events industry, and who are studying towards this goal. SAACI Chairperson, Kim Roberts, says,...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 30, 2020
Tintswalo Lapalala is a luxury tented lodge in that operates off the grid. However, in a bid to offset the carbon footprint of its safari vehicles and emergency generators, it has initiated the #SpekboomChallenge. Guests will be given a spekboom...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 24, 2020
Meetings Africa, described as the continent’s premier business events trade show, returns to the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg on the 25 and 26 February 2020 – for the 15th time. The show, which is owned by South African Tourism, plays a...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 19, 2020
AI Expo Africa, the continent’s largest B2B trade event focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions and innovations for business leaders, will take place at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town on the 3rd and 4th of September 2020....
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 19, 2020
Earlier this month, UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, released the second edition of its report on the exhibition industry’s contribution to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). The report details 25...
