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A Letter to the Minister of Tourism
Dear Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane Minister of Tourism Thank you for the opportunity to ask questions. I look forward to watching and hearing your answers and your discussion with the tourism industry at 12h30 today. I’d like to know who your advisors are because, if your decisions on tourism are based on ideology, you will be leading […]
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Indaba: Sour grapes… and kudos to Wesgro!
Visitors to Indaba at Durban’s ICC last weekend were greeted by posters on the lamp poles around the complex saying “Western Cape welcomes Indaba delegates.” And the Independent on Saturday carried a wrap-around (the newspaper’s outer four pages all promoted Cape Town & the Western Cape). This left Durban Tourism fuming and they launched an…
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An email to President Jacob Zuma
If anything demonstrates that South Africa’s tourism organisations do not have the first clue about the challenges for 2010 World Cup, the following email from Brazil says it all. SA Tourism’s policy is not to comment on 2010 accommodation and Johannesburg Tourism Co won’t get involved in any debate (but then they are close to…
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2010, Kortbroek & tourism mafia
Are the Minister of Tourism and his Department (DOT) a bunch of blundering idiots or are they getting into bed with a tourism mafia? Their latest announcement seems to be ill-conceived and acknowledges that accommodation arrangements for the 2010 World Cup are not as rosy as he claims. Here are the facts: It started on…