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/ 10 November 2004
Cape Town has taken its next step in improving tourist services in the region with the launch of Cape Town Tourism’s new united corporate identity. Cape Town Tourism was previously the bureau responsible for the CBD, Waterfront and Atlantic Seaboard areas only.
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/ 21 October 2004
Moeketsi Mosola has been appointed the new chief executive officer for South African Tourism from November, Environmental Affairs and Tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Wednesday. SA Tourism’s outgoing CEO Cheryl Carolus will take over as chairperson of the Board of the South African National Parks (SANParks), said Van Schalkwyk.
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/ 24 September 2004
The number of foreign tourists visiting Zimbabwe dropped by 36% in the first half of this year compared to the same time in 2003, the country’s tourism promotion body said on Thursday. The figures by the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) said the number of visitors dropped from 1,3-million in the first six months of last year to 827 245 this year.
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/ 23 September 2004
Tourism is the only resource with the potential to create thousands of employment opportunities in a short space of time, while in other sectors of the economy, people are either dismissed or retrenched. This is according to United Association of South Africa (Uasa) support services general manager Leon Grobler.
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/ 13 September 2004
The Kenyan tourism sector is back on a profitable path after setbacks spawned by negative publicity in the past five years, the state-run Kenya Tourism Board said on Monday. The sector is expecting its revenue to increase by three billion shillings (,5-million) this year, up from 25-billion (,5-million) it earned in 2003, said KTB spokesperson Rose Kwena.
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/ 7 September 2004
The appointment of Eastern Cape tourism board CEO Glenton de Kock has been put on hold after the Eastern Cape tourism board resigned en masse this weekend in protest against his appointment. However, Environmental Affairs and Tourism MEC Andre de Wet says he hopes to have a new board by the end of this month.
South Africa, riding the wave of a tourism boom, is bracing for record numbers by promoting the neglected African side of one of the world’s most beautiful and culturally diverse nations. The brains behind the strategy is the chief executive officer of South African Tourism Cheryl Carolus, who has shifted the focus from game reserves, wildlife and what she calls the ”pseudo-European” attractions that had been touted so far.
South African Tourism hopes to attract visitors by offering them real human contact experience. Presenting a new strategy for tourism on Wednesday in Kyalami north of Johannesburg, strategic relations manager Chantal Cuddumbey said the new approach demonstrates experiences that South Africa has to offer.
The tourism industry, a nascent economic powerhouse, is the latest to catch black economic empowerment (BEE) charter fever. It has given itself six months to draw up a BEE charter to ensure more blacks are brought into the industry. Fourteen mandarins have been appointed to lead the process. The future of tourism, it seems, is sunny, but not pale.
There is enormous potential for shark eco-tourism in the Eastern Cape, according to British shark researcher Matt Dicken. A marine biologist based at Bayworld at present, Dicken was speaking at an international marine seminar and expo at the University of Port Elizabeth last week.