Fantastic news from the Africa Adventure Tourism Network! Opening the Africa Adventure Tourism Network marketing and sales office in March 2024 in Germany is a strategic move to tap into the hea...
About the WIDB - Women In Digital Business Programme Background Women in Digital business was established by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO) an...
Many of us can remember the years before the internet was such an integral and important part of our lives. During this time, travel agencies had the travel industry locked down. Anyone looking to pla...
Your ability as a business to predict the next crisis is impossible, but your ability to prepare for it is not! In today's globalized world, businesses face a vast array of threats to their operations...
About the WED TOURISM - Women's Entrepreneurship Development Background The gap in female entrepreneurship remains widespread. Worldwide, women are under-represented as sole proprietors as w...
After months of lockdown, many regions are moving towards a careful return to normality. Tourism businesses are starting to open their doors again, albeit with some changed operations and a new perspe...
Leaders are more able to persuade, convince, motivate, inspire, and sensibly use power to affect others in a positive way. Generally speaking, leadership is not the kind of authority that comes from l...
I have been an entrepreneur for the last 29 years and have seen my fair share of ups and downs over the years. I nearly went bankrupt at the beginning of my career because I didn't had the cash f...
Tourism has been growing steadily over the last decades and has become one of the largest economic factors worldwide - until COVID 19 hit beginning of 2020. As a result of the pandemic, many...
The quote "The best way to predict the future is to create it" is credited to two people, Abraham Lincoln and Peter Drucker, known for their words of wisdom and lessons to live by. It means to re...
Why should YOU be a member of Africa Adventure? While I could cite boring mission and vision statements (they are so 1990's) I rather tell you what's in it for you! Because YOU want the traveller...
The South African Department of Transport is ignoring its own rules and is NOT issuing transport operating licences in the time described. Key issue is that all Operating Licences need to be adjudicat...
COVID slowly loses its grip on tourism businesses and you have to consider to get your marketing up and running again. Will trade shows have a place in it? The most important travel tra...
Information Technology (IT) has been around for many centuries - basically as long as people have been around because information technology is a technical form of communication. IT might have started...
Understanding the booking behaviour of FIT's FIT = Foreign Independent Tourist or Self-drive traveller While still at home, MAX our FIT-SELF-DRIVE TRAVELLER considers his options on where t...
With more people working remotely from home it is also very possible to work from holiday. Especially now, that international borders are reopening and more travellers are keen combini...
Here are some ideas on how to Reduce waste, start Recycling and Reuse resources to become a more sustainable tourism business. What is Sustainable Hospitality? These are steps that's establishments ca...
To increase your chance of building a strong relationship with travel agents it is vital to communicate with the "right" contact person and to build a relationship. Only send ...
Do booking portals contribute in a sustainable development of the destination? Our answer is an undoubtable NO! On the other hand, DMO / Travel Portals promote the destination (whi...
Let us look at the difference between booking portals, travel portals (Destination Marketing Organisations) and OTA's (Online Travel Agencies). I know it is a bit of a read but I urge you to...