South African Tourism and the Indaba Explorations won World Travel Awards in the Africa category in Durban on Monday night, SA Tourism said in a statement on Tuesday.
SA Tourism was named best destination marketing organisation in Africa and Indaba Explorations was named Africa’s leading travel exhibition.
This was the first time the awards included an Africa category and each of the 75 African winners would be represented at the annual world finals in the Caribbean in December.
”The awards are evidence that the creativity, application and hard work of the South African Tourism and Indaba teams have been justly recognised,” said SA Tourism CEO Moeketsi Mosola.
”It is our ambition to be the best destination marketing organisation and to establish Indaba as a premier global travel trade show.
”These ambitions relate directly to our mandate to grow this industry; to make South Africa a premier leisure destination; and to contribute significantly, through tourism, to the national economy, to job creation and to socioeconomic transformation.” — Sapa