About Us
Essential Travel Info

This is the company that compiles and publishes travel information which is essential and useful for travellers and the travel trade across Southern Africa.

It was founded by Vanessa Sand, CEO of AA Travel Guides in 1986.

The main activity of the company is to maintain a database of 15 000 plus products which keeps track of tourist accommodation of all types including hotels, lodges, guest houses, B&Bs, suites, resorts, holiday cottages and flats.

It also covers transport including car hire, scheduled coach travel and activities for tourists including museums, art galleries, shopping, restaurants, tourist sites, etc

Information is stored in an online database and is available via searches on the websites www.essentialtravelinfo.com, www.aatravel.co.za and www.accommodationawards.co.za which are operated by Essential Travel Info.

Essential Travel Info operates ZA Maps Online - online real time mapping which allows any business to add real time map routing to their website. See www.essentialtravelinfo.com/estab_maps/southern_africa/south_africa/gauteng/johannesburg/abbotsford_house.html
We add your business/establishment to the maps as well as up to 10 other points of interest which are meaningful to anyone visiting you.

When you add mapping to your own website you also appear on the general mapping under ‘Maps and Directions' on www.essentialtravelinfo.com. On this website it is possible to plot a route from any start location to any destination in South Africa and to also do a proximity search - find every point of interest within a radius that you specify, say 1, 2, 5 km, of a landmark such as the Union Buildings or any street address.

Other ways in which essential travel information is conveyed is via workshops for the tourism industry.
For current events planned go to www.essentialtravelinfo.com/events.html