Cape Town is not only an iconic destination but is also at the forefront of innovation, new activities, attractions, restaurants and bars are constantly opening. Below are a few of ... Read more
Experience Cape Town’s new and unique offerings Cape Town is not only an iconic destination but is also on the forefront of innovation. New activities, attractions, restaurants and bars are ... Read more
What is the City Walk? The City Walk is a collaborative community placemaking project facilitated by the Cape Town Partnership. Starting in the Company’s Gardens, continuing down St George’s Mall ... Read more
Whether you’re arriving or departing, you’ll experience a sense of place at Cape Town International Airport. The airport’s international arrivals terminal was recently renovated to include recreations of key city ... Read more
Three recent stories about Airbnb’s future growth hold considerable interest for anyone concerned about the impact of such technology upon tourism and how the industry might develop along more responsible ... Read more
I often wonder whether we are seeing the end-game for the traditional tourist board or destination marketing organisation (DMO). Tourism boards and destination marketing organisations have been around for more ... Read more
As I prepare to launch the first ever Women in Travel meetup at the forthcoming Arabian Travel Market in just over a month, I reflect on the fact that only ... Read more
By Nathalie Visele, Director, Shamal Marketing Communications, ATM’s official public relations company One aspect of ATM that never fails to excite me is the increasing number of new destinations that ... Read more
By Simon Press, Senior Exhibition Director, Arabian Travel Market (ATM) and World Travel Market (WTM) He has played a pivotal role in the development of ATM since 2008, when he ... Read more
I have been reminded of the feel good 1969 tv musical Silver Skates – it popularised the story, first published in 1865 by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, about the ... Read more
By Nathalie Visele, Director, Shamal Marketing Communications, ATM’s official public relations company My first ATM as a director of Shamal, was in May 2011 and although it was only five ... Read more
By Wellah Ellis, Sales Manager, Arabian Travel Market (ATM) Arabian Travel Market is all about connecting and connections, and my role as sales manager is to connect with our exhibitors, ... Read more
Disruption is the buzzword of our times. It is being powered by forward-thinking entrepreneurs who have the vision and tenacity to make their dreams come true. They are seeing opportunities ... Read more
Population Approximately 3.7 million people live in Cape Town, South Africa’s second most-populated city. Total area 2, 461 km2 Number of households 1 068 572 Total length of coastline 294 ... Read more
Today, March 8th, is international Women’s Day. Almost eight years ago to the day I met the woman who did more to change the way I thought about tourism than ... Read more
While its technical definition is more opinion and experience content based, blogging is an online phenomenon that has evolved into something much bigger. It is now a key tool incorporated ... Read more
Content and influencer marketing are said to be the future of marketing. Studies have shown them to create massive value in all industries, not least the travel industry. A study ... Read more
A COUPLE of years ago, I started playing with an analytics tool called Sumall. It’s essentially a site that pulls together social media statistics from all platforms, makes sense of ... Read more
By Fiona Ashton, Marketing Manager, Reed Travel Exhibitions Every year as we wait for the official Arabian Travel Market ribbon-cutting, I feel a rush of emotion: relief that we’ve pulled ... Read more
In 2013 the UN General Assembly decided to proclaim 3 March, the day of signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), ... Read more
It feels like we were just wishing colleagues and business contacts pleasantries and tidings of the new year, and here we are, well into entering the third month of 2016! ... Read more
Monday 25 April 2016, 16.30 to 18.00, Showcase Theatre The Women in Travel Meetup launched at ATM sister event World Travel Market in London in 2014. It expanded in 2015 ... Read more
Located at the southwestern tip of Africa, in the Cape of Good Hope section of the Table Mountain National Park, Cape Point has captivated travellers for centuries with its dramatic ... Read more
How would you feel if a group of young people appeared at your house and started taking photographs of you and your family? This is the challenge posed by a ... Read more
One of the most annoying quirks of Instagram is finally being addressed, bringing an end to a nightmare suffered by social media managers who have to look after multiple accounts. ... Read more
Motherhood has always been at the heart of Just a Drop. As many of you will already be aware, Fiona Jeffery OBE founded Just a Drop after becoming a mother ... Read more
There used to be a time when leadership was reserved to a handful of people. The CEOs, the MDs or Heads of… would be the only kind of people who ... Read more
The tourism industry facilitates travel creating wonderful opportunities for people to experience other peoples’ places and their cultures. Most of those who travel will be wealthier than those they encounter ... Read more
Cape Town is a popular destination for international film makers, not least of all because of the reliable weather, unrivalled variety of spectacular locations, stunning scenery and great value. The ... Read more
New visa rules will facilitate tourism growth Issued by the Ministry of Tourism, 15 Feb 2016 Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom has welcomed the recently-announced changes in visa applications as a ... Read more
TripAdvisor is the largest travel site on Earth. Its statistics are staggering. In Q3 2015, it reported reaching 350 million unique monthly visitors. It has more than 290 million reviews ... Read more
Antalya. Ljubljana. Luang Prabang. Aside from a certain assonance and preponderance of the letter L, there’s little to obviously connect these three cities. However, a look at their recent experiences ... Read more
One of the many, many benefits of this technological age is that it has allowed destinations to put themselves on the map in a way that they wish to be ... Read more
Tourism is by its very nature a difficult business to be in. Accommodation and transport providers, tour operators and guides are all more dependent for their business and their livelihoods ... Read more
The current status spotlight; January has kicked off with a rampant spotlight on wellness trends. The sheer number of focus articles and reports is indicative of just how important personal ... Read more
Thailand’s Tiger Temple is in the news again. A tourist filmed a keeper at the temple punching a tiger in the face. As is the way with these things, the ... Read more
In 2014, 30 million people looked for travel-related information on their mobiles . Armed with this kind of knowledge, the majority of hotels have already established an active social media ... Read more
I know that we all like to set Resolutions at the beginning of a New Year, but I am sure most of you will agree that after some initial enthusiasm ... Read more
Two big and difficult words – what are the implications of disintermediation for responsible tourism? ABTA, the British travel trade association, endorses responsibility in two areas. One of the key ... Read more
We at Traverse ran four sessions based around blogging as part of the World Travel Market London seminar program. Being at WTM London in more of an ‘official’ capacity has ... Read more
I have spent the last two hours reading every article on ‘Travel Trends for 2016’ in a fruitless search for signs that responsible tourism is about to hit the big ... Read more
At this time of year, it is always fun to try and predict what significant happenings are going to take place in the coming twelve months. Thankfully, no one bothers ... Read more
The last couple of months have seen dramatic weather events in all parts of the globe. Bush fires in Australia, flooding in India, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, Honduras, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, ... Read more
Over the last year I have run several women leaders panels, whether as part of women in travel or more general ones. Needless to say on every occasion I experienced ... Read more
In less than 10 days, the New Year will be upon us. While some of us will choose to stay at home considering that this season is one of the ... Read more
Whales and dolphins have been in the news a great deal this year. There was the exposé of and backlash at SeaWorld. And the incomprehension at the Japanese resumption of ... Read more
A travelling family of digital nomads tell their story. Travelling professionals (a former retail manager and a financial advisor) Tracey and Rob took extended sabbaticals to see the world with ... Read more
I can’t emphasise this enough – if you are not using video yet, you had better start soon. Video’s rise has been stratospheric this year. In its third quarter results ... Read more
I do not subscribe to the “great men or women” theory of history, but some people see the world differently, understand it differently ahead of the crowd. Generally, they are ... Read more
When the curtain eventually drew on the Women in Travel event this month at World Travel Market the one thing that continued to linger on and was sensed again and ... Read more
I have recently been exposed to revenue management. At the beginning of the month, I attended a Revenue Management and Pricing International (RMAPI) event. Watching the presentations and listening to ... Read more
This morning I asked my browser a simple question: “What costs $11?” I did this because a new study has just been released that claims that “the damaging effects of ... Read more
With Christmas shopping yet to reach its peak, time spent researching product reviews will be hugely on the increase. Online reviews now form a vital part of UK consumers’ decision-making, ... Read more
by Tony Fields, General Manager at TTG MENA 1) How important is the role of a travel trade media publication in the motivation of the tourism industry? The role of ... Read more
In many ways, the second decade of the 21st century could be said to belong to Brazil. Classed as one of the BRIC nations – the quartet of rapidly advancing ... Read more
Child protection is an issue which is not going to go away – the industry cannot turn a blind eye to it. The challenge for the industry is much broader ... Read more
I cannot believe it is 3 weeks since that amazing day at Women in Travel 2015! The afternoon of mentoring, debates and presentation went flying past, but it left behind ... Read more
Join award-winning wildlife filmmakers Patrick Morris and Huw Cordey as they give their personal insights into the making of ambitious and ground-breaking TV series such as Life, Galapagos, South Pacific, Planet ... Read more
I had a busy few days at World Travel Market at the beginning of this month. On Monday, I was moderating the WTM Travel Innovation Summit in Association with TTI ... Read more
The Maldives began charging a so called ‘Green Tax’ at US$6 per tourist bed from the November 1. This followed on the heels of an announcement in September that the ... Read more
The 2015 World Travel Market just ended successfully last week. As always, WTM serves both as an industry ‘wrap up’ for the travel year that’s been, and more importantly, as ... Read more
The Sackur panel interview last week at World Travel Market faced up to the challenge confronting us as a species. Derek Hanekon, the South African Minister of Tourism, argued that ... Read more
Innovation drives the travel industry. At this Summit you will hear from senior travel executives who have led innovative initiatives within their own businesses. They will share their thoughts and ... Read more
“Travellers and the tourism industry are at odds over what sustainability means, whose responsibility it is and how green they really are,” according to the World Travel Market 2015 Industry ... Read more
Here come the Millennials! Loosely defined as people born after the mid-1980s, Millennials currently account for 217 million trips, a number expected to rise to 320 million in 2020. According ... Read more
We are now a week away from #WomeninTravel meet up taking place on 3 November 2015 at World Travel Market! I am incredibly excited about it because I feel that ... Read more
Many in the industry would probably say no. We often describe ourselves as travellers and visitors, in the same way that people complain about traffic without recognising that they are ... Read more
2014 was a black year for Malaysian Airlines with the loss of two of its flights. These tragic events only served to compound a range of difficulties that had already ... Read more
1 – What inspired you to create your business? The South African Animal Sanctuary Alliance (SAASA) became a seed of a thought during the late 60’s and early 70’s when ... Read more
A group of 200 industry food tourism industry leaders met last April at the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastian, Spain at a conference co-hosted by the United Nation (UN) ... Read more
For anyone seeking to communicate the benefits of a responsibly run holiday to potential guests, a good place to look for inspiration is the local supermarket. or restaurant, market, or ... Read more
Last year’s World Travel Market’s Global Trends Report has revealed that cycling tourism is overtaking golf tourism’s popularity as more businessmen (middle-aged males) swap their golf clubs for bicycles. In the ... Read more
International water aid charity Just a Drop was launched at WTM in 1998. As the charity beneficiary of the event, the charity attends the show every year and its presence helps ... Read more
Responsible Tourism is about businesses, destination managers and travellers taking responsibility for the impacts of tourism, minimising the negative ones and maximising the positive. This year’s Responsible Tourism programme at ... Read more
The North Atlantic market is potentially one of the most lucrative in the world for airlines. Known for its rich pickings, especially in the heady months of summer, it can ... Read more
The world is inexorably moving away from broadcast television. In days of old, viewers across the country would sit down together in their millions to watch the most popular TV ... Read more
WTM London 2015 will see the last Thursday, as the leading global event for the industry transforms into a three-day event as of 2016. But you’d be very much mistaken ... Read more
A COUPLE of years ago, my wife and I made the big move out of London to Dorset to set up a cut flower business. The business plan was that ... Read more
A new initiative has been launched in the city of Kozhikode in Kerala, which aims to ensure the city lives by the mantra of how responsible tourism should work in ... Read more
This week’s guest blogger is Rebecca Maffeis, the UK MD of Lagrange Holidays. Rebecca took the helm of the UK company while still very young but has not looked back ... Read more
The simplest definition of Responsible Tourism is that it is about using tourism to make better places to live in and better places to visit; in that order. At the ... Read more
This week there has been a lot of talk about Facebook introducing a dislike button. Even James Corden on the Late Late Show has an opinion on the idea, as ... Read more
Last month saw one of the periodic incidents where a disagreement between blogger and brand relations caused it to go mini-viral among the blogger community and those working in outreach. ... Read more
Today’s guest blog is from Jo Rzymowska, MD Celebrity Cruises, UK and Ireland. Jo will be speaking at the Women in Travel meet up at WTM, so don’t miss the ... Read more
Earlier this month, representatives of all sectors of the US snowsports industry sent a letter to the White House – calling for strong climate action in Paris. The Protect Our ... Read more
Food continues to be one of the most important subjects for travelers. And why not, with new television shows featuring chefs and chef competitions? We all eat, and well, most ... Read more
The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association will hold its 33rd Annual Global Convention in Cape Town next year – the first time the conference has been held on the ... Read more
As summer draws to a close and the pace picks up for autumn, it certainly hasn’t been a quiet time for the airline industry. Apart from being the peak season ... Read more
In November 2014 ECPAT launched a new global Taskforce to tackle the rapid acceleration of sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism. Dr. Najat Maalla M’jid, former UN Special ... Read more
For quite some time during the 90’s to the early 2000’s, frequent fliers have lamented that the so-called “Golden Age” of flying is gone. No one dressed up for flights any more, ... Read more
I am delighted this week to be able to announce the full line up of speakers and mentors for the forthcoming Women in Travel meet up at World Travel Market ... Read more
If you only read some of the more reactionary publications around, you might be mistaken for thinking that tourism’s response to the growing refugee crisis was mostly anger at having ... Read more
You can’t keep Instagram out of the news. Already the brightest star in the social media firmament, IG is generating ever more heat this summer. I wrote on this blog ... Read more
Earlier this year, the South African Hotel Verde became the first hotel in the world to achieve double LEED platinum status. Far from being a remote ecolodge, however, Hotel Verde ... Read more
Did you read the latest Ashley Madison byline? Before the data breach it was “Life is short. Have an affair.” I think it now reads, “Life is going to be ... Read more
2015 already looks set to be the hottest year on record. It means the three warmest years since records began in 1880 – 2015, 2014 and 2010 – will all ... Read more
Google’s first results page has come a long way since the company launched 17 years ago. When we first started using that rather clever search engine, the page it threw ... Read more
Think about any “tourist trap” restaurant. Now that you’ve got that image in your mind’s eye, it’s probably not far from a major monument or attraction, right? The menu is ... Read more
That tourism uses a lot of water is hardly news. Daily fresh towels. Infinity swimming pools. Golf courses surrounded by desert. The endless irrigation of hotel grounds to keep them ... Read more
The Association of Women Travel Executives (AWTE) is delighted to be supporting the Women in Travel event at World Travel Market for the second year running. With a fantastic line ... Read more
