Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 28, 2021
Get the week’s MICE industry news highlights in a quick 2-minute video, brought to you by The Planner. This week we share Stats SA’s findings that hospitality venues lost R15.5 billion in revenue in 2020 compared to the previous year, and...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 26, 2021
It is common knowledge that the full tourism value chain has been badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, but seeing this impact in numbers in a recently released TBCSA report is grim. Prior to the second wave, in October 2020, an International...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 24, 2021
The SA Events Council, a coalition of 14 South African events industry associations, was created during the Covid-19 pandemic to showcase the immense value of events and lobby for greater support from government and other stakeholders. For example,...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 24, 2021
British Airways, operated locally by Comair, has announced the reopening of bookings for daily regional flights between Johannesburg and Harare. One-way fares start from R995, including taxes and surcharges. Flights will resume operating on 28...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 24, 2021
Kulula has announced that it will resume flights from Lanseria International Airport as of 1 April 2021, with flights to both Durban and Cape Town. As with the low-cost airline’s other flights, it will start with a limited schedule and add more...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 21, 2021
SAACI, the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry, ran an Industry Pulse Survey in December 2020 which they have made publically available. At the time of the survey, when South Africa was in Enhanced Alert Level 1 which allowed...
