Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 2, 2021
FEDHASA, the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa, and the Restaurant Collective, an alliance of hospitality stakeholders which includes all the major brands and quick service restaurants in South Africa, have been granted an urgent...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 2, 2021
Unable to host the TOPS at SPAR Wine Show during lockdown, the organisers decided to conduct what became the biggest wine consumer survey ever done on behalf of the South African wine industry. Called the Great BIG Wine Survey, and carried out in...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 2, 2021
Home Suite Hotels is a brand of lifestyle hotels and suites for the independent traveller, offering a tailored, personalised environment for both business and leisure guests. It opened its flagship properties Home Suite Hotels Bristol in...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 1, 2021
The City Lodge Hotel Group (CLHG) is JSE-listed and has announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2020. These reflect the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, including a 73% decrease in revenue (R215,6m, as...
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 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 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...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 17, 2021
Qatar Airways became the largest international airline carrier operating during the early stages of the pandemic and is currently rebuilding its global network. Part of this strategy includes increasing its frequency of flights to give its...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 15, 2021
UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has made a call for entries for two of its awards; the UFI Digital Innovation Award and the UFI Sustainable Development Award. Both awards are open to all companies from the exhibition...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 15, 2021
Get the week’s MICE industry news highlights in a quick 2-minute video, brought to you by The Planner. This week we look at RwandAir’s temporary suspension of flights to 3 African destinations; the announcement by the Canadian Surgery Forum...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 15, 2021
Research shows that sustainable business travel is likely to gain importance in a post-Covid landscape. The Climate Action for Corporate Travel Urgent Sustainability Summit (CACTUS) surveyed its members and found that 93% ‘strongly agree’ or...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 11, 2021
The damage that the Covid-19 pandemic caused the international exhibition industry in 2020 has been put into figures by UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. This includes the following findings: Exhibition industry revenue...
