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Choose a great venue to make a great conference

Faircity – Business Travellers - Blog As any good conference organiser will tell you, one of the biggest challenges when putting a conference together is the choice of the venue...

SA unabridged birth certificate requirement remains

Parents travelling with children to and from South Africa will continue to require unabridged birth certificates, despite recent media reports claiming the contrary.

GrandWest unveils water purification plant

Sun International’s GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World in Cape Town has announced the completion of a water purification plant on the property that will in future treat borehole water to potable standards...

Fastjet launches Harare-Bulawayo route

Fastjet has announced that it will commence daily flights between Harare and Bulawayo from 20 July. Ticket sales are already open on fastjet.com, in fastjet shops and at all travel agents, with a special launch fare starting at $59, taxes included...

Airlink adds capacity to JHB-Walvis Bay route

Airlink has confirmed that from 30 July it will introduce further capacity to its Johannesburg-Walvis Bay service. The airline will introduce one of its newly-acquired 74-seat Embraer 170 E-Jets to the route...

Five in Five

2017 saw South African Tourism announce that it had set itself the ambitious goal of increasing the country’s visitor numbers by five million by the year 2022...

Bullish and optimistic

The world’s big hotel groups still see Africa as relatively untapped and under-supplied, and they continue to put together development pipelines that look impressive on paper, but require a greater conversion rate to make a material impact on the African hotel landscape in the short-term.