The recent protest action by the One Voice group refers and I only have one question; "Are we not flogging a dead horse?" Private Tourists come here and stay one night only as they are en route to somewhere else - Addo, Garden Route, Game Farms. The only tourists that stay any length of time here are business, sport and cultural event tourists. Over the last couple of decades our City has decimated most of our iconic tourist attractions. The Red Location Museum, Bayworld, our Southern … [Read more...] about Tourism: When is Enough Enough?
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ONE VOICE to Save our Tourism Industry
The need for an urgent safety intervention in and around Nelson Mandela Bay’s tourism hot spots must be a top priority. One Voice, a tourism collective that represents the member-driven tourism bodies in the Metro, protested on the beachfront and handed a memorandum to a representative of the Speaker’s office of the Nelson Mandela Municipality. 200 members of the tourism industry met to demand that the negative spiral in the Metro’s second largest employer be elevated to a top priority and acted … [Read more...] about ONE VOICE to Save our Tourism Industry
Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism Awards Launched to Celebrate Local Tourism Excellence
9 February 2024: The inaugural Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism Awards (NMBTA) has been announced to celebrate and recognize tourism excellence in Business and Leisure Tourism in Nelson Mandela Bay. The NMBTA are an expansion from the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Events Awards (NMBBEA) which were established in 2019 focusing on excellence in the Business Events industry. NMBTA aim to recognise and reward leisure and business tourism businesses and individuals who are passionate and committed to … [Read more...] about Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism Awards Launched to Celebrate Local Tourism Excellence
Nelson Mandela Bay’s new Miss Tourism invites you to explore SA’s national parks – Gqeberha in the News
Nelson Mandela Bay’s new Miss Tourism invites you to explore SA’s national parks: Gqeberha modelling schoolteacher Asande Mchunu is on a mission to visit each of SA’s 19 national parks over the next year in her role as Miss Tourism 2021. Mchunu, 22, who won the title in May, has ... Source: "Gqeberha" - BingNews. Police vaccination programme gets under way in Eastern Cape: Eastern Cape safety and security MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe and police commissioner Lt-Gen Liziwe Ntshinga were among … [Read more...] about Nelson Mandela Bay’s new Miss Tourism invites you to explore SA’s national parks – Gqeberha in the News
Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are ‘bad for tourism’ – Port Elizabeth in the News
Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are 'bad for tourism': Controversial puppet Chester Missing took the subject head-on, cracking a joke about those who chose to travel elsewhere because they aren't able to say the new name for Port Elizabeth. Source: "Port Elizabeth" - BingNews. Cape Town airport name change ditched: The Sport, Arts and Culture Department said the public consultation process reached no consensus, leading to the renaming effort to be abandoned. Source: … [Read more...] about Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are ‘bad for tourism’ – Port Elizabeth in the News
Uitenhage News: Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are ‘bad for tourism’
Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are 'bad for tourism': Controversial puppet Chester Missing took the subject head-on, cracking a joke about those who chose to travel elsewhere because they aren't able to say the new name for Port Elizabeth. Source: "Uitenhage" - BingNews. Cape Town airport name change ditched: The Sport, Arts and Culture Department said the public consultation process reached no consensus, leading to the renaming effort to be abandoned. Source: … [Read more...] about Uitenhage News: Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are ‘bad for tourism’
Interline agreement good for tourism – Port Elizabeth in the News
Interline agreement good for tourism: The agreement with Safair will provide 10 domestic connections including Port Elizabeth International Airport, East London Airport, and George Airport. Shaw said George needs to do strategic marketing ... Source: "Port Elizabeth" - BingNews. PE’s Liam Botha crowned national MX champ: Racing in the U13 85cc junior class, the 12-year-old speedster went into the final race of the season, held in Bloemfontein over the weekend, needing only a heat win to … [Read more...] about Interline agreement good for tourism – Port Elizabeth in the News
Kick Starting Tourism in the Eastern Cape – MyPR.co.za
Kick Starting Tourism in the Eastern Cape: Nelson Mandela Bay will be hosting a unique Exhibition to showcase Tourism on the 13 -14 November at The Tramways Building, Lower Valley Road, in the Baakens Valley. The Exhibition, organised by PeriExpo, is aimed at helping to resuscitate the Tourism sector in our region and kick start live events where exhibitors can interact personally with the public! After months of “lockdown”, and international tourism still a big question mark, the local … [Read more...] about Kick Starting Tourism in the Eastern Cape – MyPR.co.za
Flight restrictions continue to rein in Eastern Cape tourism – Port Elizabeth Business News
Flight restrictions continue to rein in Eastern Cape tourism: Amid the news of chaotic management of new Covid-19 protocols for international inbound travellers, Eastern Cape tourism is struggling to emerge from the lockdown ... Source: "Port Elizabeth" business - BingNews. Flight restrictions continue to rein in tourism: Amid the news of chaotic management of new Covid-19 protocols for international inbound travellers, Eastern Cape tourism is struggling to emerge from the lockdown. Source: … [Read more...] about Flight restrictions continue to rein in Eastern Cape tourism – Port Elizabeth Business News
Flight restrictions continue to rein in tourism – Port Elizabeth Business News
Flight restrictions continue to rein in tourism: Amid the news of chaotic management of new Covid-19 protocols for international inbound travellers, Eastern Cape tourism is struggling to emerge from the lockdown. Source: "Port Elizabeth" business - BingNews. Sanele Nohamba the big winner of Springbok Showdown: While Saturday’s Springbok Showdown veered more towards substance than style‚ the biggest winner of the game was young Sharks scrumhalf Sanele Nohamba. Amid serious national team … [Read more...] about Flight restrictions continue to rein in tourism – Port Elizabeth Business News
South Africans can Help Save Tourism in Just Three Clicks
Innovative Platform Gives Locals Access to Tourism Experiences at Affordable Rates Wednesday, 16 September – Durban Locals Who Wander is an innovative platform built to help kickstart the South African tourism recovery by connecting locals to affordable travel deals in all nine provinces. The platform was launched on the 16th of August 2020 on Facebook and Instagram. Founder, Justin Perumal - a graduate from the University of West London, works his love for nature, technology and sustainable … [Read more...] about South Africans can Help Save Tourism in Just Three Clicks
The Ravaging Affects of the Lockdown in ONE Picture
I run a number of campaigns promoting accommodation in various cities in South Africa. This is a screenshot of ONE page of those campaigns - littered with big fat Zero's, not ONE enquiry since March 2020, not ONE booking to date, ZERO income from this stream to date. Also - not ONE of the Guest House web sites that I manage has had an enquiry since March 2020 either. I am using this affiliate site as a FIRST indicator towards recovery of tourism - when the FIRST enquiry is logged I will … [Read more...] about The Ravaging Affects of the Lockdown in ONE Picture
Why I have a DIM View for Tourism Recovery
Tourism is a carefully constructed industry with many links in the chain. These include destination marketing, functioning and safe airlines, functioning and safe transport, functioning and safe accommodation, disposable income to enable travel and free and unfettered access to the tourism destination. It is all well and good for tourism product owners to agitate for the opening of the sector but in order for tourism to thrive we need tourists - plain and simple. Should South Africa … [Read more...] about Why I have a DIM View for Tourism Recovery
Tourism announces beneficiaries of Tourism Relief Fund
Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, has made public the list of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) who benefited through the much-needed Tourism Relief Funding. The R200 million Tourism Relief Funding has successfully supported 4 000 businesses that were negatively affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “Many of the business have utilised the fund to subsidise expenses towards fixed costs, operational costs, supplies and other pressure costs items,” said the … [Read more...] about Tourism announces beneficiaries of Tourism Relief Fund
New leisure travel regulations
Cabinet has agreed to ease restrictions around leisure travel, paving the way for citizens to travel within their provinces of residence. “After the release of the new regulations, individuals will be permitted to leave their homes for leisure purposes within the province where they currently live. “It’s only for intra-provincial travel, not inter-provincial. If you’re in Gauteng, you’re allowed to travel within Gauteng. You can’t go to KwaZulu-Natal,” Tourism Minister Mmamoloko … [Read more...] about New leisure travel regulations
