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In need of a quick wellness fix?

So, you haven't yet tried Tibetan sound therapy at the Saxon Hotel? What about a fynbos exfoliation at The Twelve Apostles Hotel in Cape Town, or an uplifting green tea body wrap at Cybele Forest Lodge and Spa? The fact is that health and wellness tourism is a growing trend both locally and internationally.

Making the grade

For the first time ever, a Fifa World Cup event will offer football fans the option of non-traditional accommodation. Match, the company established by the association to manage accommodation for the 2010 World Cup, is entering into contracts with both hotel and non-hotel facilities, bringing small, medium and micro-enterprises into the picture.

Business of tourism

Events are a major sector in the business tourism realm and all eyes are on South Africa in anticipation of the world's biggest event that will hit our shores in less than three years, the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Denise Kemp, chairperson of the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry, said 2010 will give the industry a unique opportunity to market itself to the world.

A summary of Indaba highlights

If you weren't one of the lucky visitors to experience throngs of product owners and travel journalists, fantastic tourism exhibitions (and some mediocre ones), aching feet, too many cocktail parties and wall-to-wall networking sessions, then you missed out on this year's Travel Indaba at the ICC in Durban.

Here comes 2010

A uniquely African event -- that's what South African Tourism and key stakeholders are hoping the 2010 Fifa World Cup will be for those soccer tourists who make the long-haul journey to support their teams. "We're going to treat them like gold," South African Tourism CEO, Moeketsi Mosola, promised delegates at Indaba, held recently in Durban.

It's time Limpopo left the lapa

Traffic in downtown Polokwane is already being diverted owing to extensions to the roads around the Peter Mokaba Stadium, renovations are under way, plans are being made, talk is big and voices are loud. But does Limpopo really have what it takes to lure tourists and tourism into the province ahead of 2010.