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Protea Hotels wins customer service award

Protea Hotels has been named the winner of the Hotels Category of the Ask Afrika Orange Index®, which uses a sampling of 33 000 interviews to rate South Africa’s top customer service brands across 22 industries. The Ask Afrika Orange Index®...
Maropeng events

Maropeng is Fair Trade Tourism-certified

Visitors to the Cradle of Humankind who prioritise sustainable tourism and travel can now be assured of Maropeng’s status as a Fair Trade Tourism entity across the board – whether they’re visiting the visitor centre for the Cradle...
Wrapping trees pink fairway

Randpark venue goes pink

If you are traveling on Republic Road, heading towards the Fairway Hotel & Golf Resort at Randpark Golf Course, a vision of pink tree trunks will be marking the way to the hotel entrance. In support of Breast Cancer awareness month, The Fairway...
Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest in Muldersdrift

Valverde Country Hotel and The Fat Olive in Muldersdrift will be celebrating Oktoberfest from 18 – 20 October. Festivities will run from 16:00 till late on Friday 18th, from 10:00 till late on Saturday the 19 and between 10:00 and 16:00 on...
wedding

Reputable wedding venues give peace of mind

Everyone will agree that a wedding day should be one of the most special days in a couple’s life. It’s certainly not a day anyone envisages as being marred by bogus wedding venues and suppliers not delivering on promises. However, recently a few...
Mala Dorasamy

New appointment at Durban ICC

The Durban International Convention Centre is pleased to announce the promotion of Mala Dorasamy to the role of Marketing, Sales and Events Director. Mala was part of the original team which opened the Durban ICC in 1997, and has served faithfully...

Waterfall City gets a hotel

City Lodge is the latest addition to Waterfall City. The 150-room hotel is set to open at the end of 2014 and will be situated at the entrance of Waterfall City. Waterfall includes 1.73-million square metres of developable land, which will include...

Cape Town has the world’s best hotels

According to a new study by ReviewPro – which looked at more than 2.5 million guest reviews from hotels across 20 major tourist-friendly cities around the world – Cape Town hotels’ is number one for customer satisfaction. The company,...

The importance of team branding

Donna Rachelson’s new book, Branding & Marketing You through Teams, was officially launched at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) on Friday 4 October 2013. The book contains fresh insights into the developing field of team...

Celebrate Spring with oysters and bubbly

Oysters and bubbly… a timeless taste combination that can’t be beaten, leaving you feeling indulgent and filled with ‘joie de vivre’. And what better place to enjoy it than on the deck or in the lounge of an elegant restaurant in the electric...