Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 20, 2020
Many of the men and women delivering technical production services at live events, be it conferences or music festivals, are freelancers. Like everyone in the events sector, they lost their livelihoods in March and its probable they will only be...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 18, 2020
Petitions and protests are being organised across South Africa by tourism stakeholders who are frustrated with the current regulations which include an outright ban on all leisure tourism (read more about this here) – despite the taxi industry...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 18, 2020
UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has released the July 2020 edition of its Global Barometer research report which reveals the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the global exhibition industry. “While the...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 17, 2020
The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) is hosting a webinar in order to share details about the behind-the-scenes lobbying it has undertaken to ensure tourism is reopened urgently, as well as what the next steps are for this to...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 13, 2020
The South African tourism industry, represented by the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA), is “considering its options” after failing to convince government to allow intra-provincial domestic tourism to resume under lockdown alert...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 13, 2020
Following an announcement on 10 July 2020 from the Office of the Presidency allowing intra-provincial leisure travel under the advanced Level 3 lockdown restrictions, this was then retracted 30 hours later. In a now deleted tweet, the Presidency...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 9, 2020
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Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 28, 2020
The Southern African Association for the Conference Industry (SAACI) has welcomed the amendments made to lockdown level three which make it possible to hold business events. The new regulations were gazetted on Thursday, 25 June 2020, and will take...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 25, 2020
The City Lodge Hotel Group has released an announcement, which states: “Given the extreme uncertainty facing the Company and the losses currently being incurred due to COVID-19, the associated lockdown and travel ban and furthermore given...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 24, 2020
The tourism industry has been good to South Africa. It supports 1.5 million jobs and contributes 8.6% to the country’s GDP. According to Stats SA’s Tourism Satellite Account, the total tourism spend in South Africa in 2018 was R273.2 billion – or...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 22, 2020
Leadercast is the largest leadership event in the world and usually attracts a live audience of millions of people from across the globe. South Africa has been part of this community since 2010. Now, for the first time, this event will be broadcast...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jun 22, 2020
Last week’s announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa to allow accredited accommodation, casinos and restaurants to resume with careful cleaning and hygiene protocols has been welcomed by Sun International. The group can look forward to the...
