Martin HIller | Jan 12, 2017
Durban, Cape Town and Tshwane are the first African cities to be included in the Global Destination Sustainability Index (GDS-Index), an innovative new measure for the level of sustainability that cities can offer to the MICE events (Meetings,...
Martin HIller | Jan 10, 2017
Two tourism practitioners from aha Lesedi; Phelisa Matyolo and Ziyanda Mtshali were among a group of 20 trainees who were selected to partake in the Tourism Department’s Mandarin programme. The trainees were selected from establishments frequented...
Helen Brewer | Jan 9, 2017
With the year-end recess a distant memory – pundits are predicting a rocky 2017. Not that 2016 could be regarded as a whole lot of fun. Yet taking stock of some interesting MICE developments in the latter half of 2016 – it may be worthy for...
Helen Brewer | Dec 12, 2016
The exhibition industry is particularly sensitive to emulation and in the past few years, similar sector exhibitions held within weeks of one another have emerged and at times even at the same venue. Helen Brewer of the MICE Academy investigates…...
Helen Brewer | Dec 12, 2016
‘Successful Planning is the Knowledge that Every End is a New Beginning’ Although the planning team may take a breather for a day or two – it is best to strike while the memory remains fresh and vivid by undertaking a thorough post mortem or as...
Helen Brewer | Nov 25, 2016
‘Credible’ companies are a misnomer Employer companies are not candidates for credibility in the true sense of the word. An employer entity can alter in many ways, which clouds the true interpretation of credible. A company can change its business...
