An app for emergency response has been launched by 911 Rapid Response in conjunction with Nhongo Safaris and the Tourism Business Council of South African (TBCSA), with the aim of ensuring the safety of tourists in South Africa.
With strong tourist arrivals from Central and South America, tourism to South Africa is on the up despite some crazy visa restrictions by the government doing almost everything possible to achieve the opposite.
The Southern Africa aviation scene is set for a shake-up with the news that African low-cost carrier (LCC) Fastjet has tied up a brand licensing agreement with Federal Airlines in South Africa and Solenta Aviation Ltd in Mozambique.
The Southern African Tourism Association will meet with police to discuss ways to increase protection after 36 Dutch tourists were robbed shortly after touching down at OR Tambo International Airport.
South Africa’s financially wounded national carrier, South African Aircraze (SAA), will cancel a number of regional flights in a desperate attempt to save money.
A non-profit organisation called Ikhaya Le Langa – run by women in Langa, Cape Town - is making headlines by renting out overnight accommodation on AirBNB.
Tickets sales for the first ever flights between South Africa and the volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic Ocean, St Helena, is set to start “within the next week” with SA Airlink poised to operate a weekly service linking the island with Johannesburg and Cape Town via a refuelling stopover...
Domestic tourism within South Africa has declined over the past two years due to economic hardships in Zuma country.
In a first for the African continent, the City of New York and the City of Cape Town signed a historic city-to-city partnership agreement to boost tourism and business.
Tanzania is a stable country with a population of about 47.6 million, and a third of the country is protected for its wildlife, meaning that it is one of the best countries in African to go on a Safari Adventure. For those who have yet to go on a safari,...
The United States has released a security message warning US citizens travelling via OR Tambo International Airport (Ortia) that they are entering or leaving the Wild West of Africa.
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Tourists are being targeted at several ‘tourist traps’ in and around Gauteng.
If you were hoping for economic recovery to grace South African shores soon, your hopes will be proven worthless, warns the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in its latest evaluation of fixed investment levels in the country.
The rate at which police officers are being murdered has fallen significantly over the past twenty years, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
South Africa’s tourism sector is worried that the country’s volatile political and economic situation could affect the the possibility of hosting more international conferences.
Somebody is feeling the heat of AirBNB making great strides into offerring affordable accommodation to people travelling in South Africa and now they are crying foul. In fact, it’s a complementary bottle of wine that’s got them whining.
Around 13,000 potential tourists to South Africa last year were turned away at foreign airports because they were not in possession of correct documentation to enter the country.
Tourism industry insiders have rubbished claims that the weaker rand will bring more tourist to South Africa.
One positive thing that came from South Africa being downgraded to junk status is that a weaker rand makes South Africa a better value-for-money option for overseas tourists.
South Africa might battle with the Kiwis on the cricket pitch, but on the political and tourism front South Africa’s ‘tourism terminator’ has bowled them for a duck.
Cape Town and Johannesburg are among the top five cities in Africa to offer AirBNB accommodations as the international application driven online room rental service plans to double its customer numbers in Africa to 1.5 million by the end of this year (2017).
In what seems to be the biggest pipe dream of our lifetime the South Africa government believe that visa-free travel to the EU countries might still be on the cards.
Long queues and dispair at the gateway to southern Africa - OR Tambo International Airport - might be something of the past if the Department of Home Affairs can actually put their money where their mouths are.
South African minister of home affairs, Malusi Gigaba, (also known as South Africa's 'tourism terminator' has severely been criticised for introducing a visa application process for New Zealanders intending to travel to South Africa, which entails traveling to Wellington to apply in person.
South African tourism numbers can expect to get an unexpected shot in the arm as Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana resume the issuing of their UniVisa, better knows as the KAZA Visa – a single visa regime issued at the airports of Harare, Lusaka or Gaborone.
Kiwis will now have to apply for a visa to visit South Africa and tourism experts say this will only lead to more job losses in the travel and hospitality sector.
The chaos clearing customs at OR Tambo International Airport (that’s Jan Smuts Airport for those of you who have been out of the country for a while) is said to calm down to a slow panic as 92 additional staff are being deployed from today (9 December) to deal with...
South Africa will be on the receiving end of several new airline routes announced for servicing Africa in the New Year.
While South Africa’s universities are burning, several South African government departments have been summoned to appear in court to take them to task about the implementation of new immigration laws that consider current accreditations held by schools teaching English as foreign language (EFL) as insufficient to obtain study visas for...
Tourism bodies are ready to take the South African government to court to end the controversial rule that children under 18 must travel with an unabridged birth certificate (UBC).
