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Tourism, Travel & Hospitality
Almost 2,6-million travellers, including arrivals and departures, passed through South African ports of entry in June, according to figures released by Statistics South Africa. The travellers comprised 891 689 South Africans and 1,6-million foreigners. Read more >>
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The government is hoping to create about 800 000 jobs in the tourism sector by 2015 and to double its direct contribution to South Africa's gross domestic product to R125-billion, according to higher education and training deputy minister Hlengiwe Mkhize. Read more >>
Accommodation
 Victoria Falls Safari Lodge has won the Association of Zimbabwean Travel Agents (AZTA) Best Safari Lodge of the Year award for the 16th year in a row. The announcement was made at the annual AZTA Awards ceremony held on Friday, 16 September 2011 in Harare. Read more >>
Tourism
Cape Town Tourism CEO, Mariette du Toit-Helmbold, has said that the R14 billion Cape Town tourism industry, which employs just short of 300 000 staff, will only recover in 2014 with an estimated total loss of R1.5 billion between 2008 and 2014, with zero job creation, hotels and restaurants running empty and some being forced to close down. Read more >>
 The nine provincial finalists in the 2011/12 Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year Award (ETEYA) have been announced in Clarens in the Free State. The finalists represent the cream of South Africa's small and medium tourism businesses, and each now stands a chance of being named the ETEYA Overall winner of 2011. Read more >>
Tours
Many tourists have albums with images of the Choo Tjoe (pronounced 'choo-choo') - the last regularly scheduled steam train in South Africa, chugging along through its daily 67km journey between Knysna and the Transport Museum in George. The Outeniqua Choo Tjoe carried almost 120,000 passengers a year, but service stopped in August 2006, after floods damaged the tracks. Read more >>
 Tourvest Destination Management (TDM) has acquired Brothers Sport, one of South Africa's established inbound and outbound sports tour operators, which will now fall under TDM's Business and Sport Events division. Read more >>
Environmental Management
A huge new transfrontier park that will stretch from Angola in the west to Zimbabwe in the east - and estimated to be 15 times larger than the Serengeti in Tanzania - is being planned for Africa. Read more >>
Human Resources & Recruitment
 Workers who have been with Kumba for five years or more will get a R500 000 bonus in December as part of a generous employee share option scheme that will see the company paying out more than R2,5-billion to its employees. Read more >>
Retailers
 Pick n Pay, late last week, announced the opening of latest addition to its expanding African footprint - its first Mauritian store in Bagatelle's Mall. The company will open a further two stores in Mauritius in the next year. Read more >>
Women's health
 PRETORIA: With October being International Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) is encouraging all women to invest in their health by learning how to detect various female cancers early. Read more >>
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