Shanna Jacobsen | Dec 15, 2020
Glisser, an events platform specialising in providing solutions for hybrid, has announced this past week that it has built in an additional feature that means attendees can receive a CPD / CPE certificate when they attend a Glisser event. According...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 31, 2020
The Southern African Tourism Services Association (SATSA) is hosting another COVID-19 webinar, this time tackling the topic of how the Consumer Protection Act can be interpreted at this time. The webinar will include a Q&A with Consumer...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 30, 2020
“As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps exhibition industry professionals apart, the need to talk, to discuss, and to learn is bigger than ever,” states the UFI announcement about their new series of regular talks, panels, and webinar sessions for the...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 18, 2020
If you are studying hospitality management, more career opportunities are now available to you than ever before, says Susina Jooste, the Director of The Private Hotel School. This is because corporates are increasingly recruiting hospitality...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 30, 2020
Jackie Cameron, an award-winning chef and owner of Jackie Cameron School of Food & Wine in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, says that there are a lot of misconceptions about the hospitality industry and its opportunities for young chef graduates....
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 1, 2020
CEPA, the Council of Event Professionals Africa, has been reconstituted as a special interest group within SACIA, the Southern African Communications Industries Association, where it is in the process of developing three levels of professional...
Shanna Jacobsen | Dec 11, 2019
Employees at graded establishments can now improve their knowledge and skills with free online training videos, courtesy of the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA), the International Hotel School (IHS) and Summit, a training...
Shanna Jacobsen | Nov 26, 2019
Just as computer software needs to be updated regularly to maximise its performance, so too do the policies and practices around Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (or B-BBEE, also known as BEE). Since its inception in 2003, BEE has undergone a...
Shanna Jacobsen | Nov 26, 2019
By Anna Chetty, Strategic Project Manager at RS Components South Africa Richard Branson knows a thing or two about ideas. One of his favourite quotes is from Alfred North Whitehead, the ground-breaking philosopher and mathematician: “Ideas...
Martin HIller | Dec 31, 2015
Most event planners are in their thirties. Most successful incentive participants are in their 50s. Most event programmes are written for 18-year-old attendees, it would appear. John Fisher wonders whatever happened to thinking about the...
Martin HIller | Dec 31, 2015
Gone are the days when a warm body was enough to be a part of a venue inspection. A professionally managed MICE venue wishes to grow and prosper through a well-planned series of site inspections, explains Helen Brewer. To have a successful site...
Martin HIller | Dec 30, 2015
If the mere thought of compiling an event brief that accurately conveys your brand’s needs has you breaking out in hives, worry not. Terry Sutherland has put together a list of the essential elements your event brief should contain. 1 A BACKGROUND...
