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.
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.