New luxury lodge under construction in the Nambiti Game Reserve (KZN)
The South African tourism industry has received a welcome boost from an international group of companies investing an estimated R200m to develop and operate a new luxury lodge in the Nambiti Big 5 Private Game Reserve, outside Ladysmith (KZN). Known as The Homestead, the new ‘conscious luxury’ lodge is currently Continue Reading
Chefs Warehouse at Tintswalo Atlantic to open on 2 November 2020
Tintswalo Atlantic and Chefs Warehouse have announced an exciting joint venture partnership that will see the opening of a Liam Tomlin restaurant in the unique oceanside location of Cape Town’s iconic boutique hotel on Chapman’s Peak Drive. Chefs Warehouse at Tintswalo Atlantic will open on Monday 2 November 2020. The Continue Reading
Nelson Mandela Museum
“We used to sing and dance and fully enjoyed the perfect freedom we seemed to have far away from the old people. After supper we would listen enthralled to my mother and sometimes my aunt telling us stories, legends, myths and fables which have come down from countless generations, and Continue Reading
Tourism Month: Western Cape tourist guide registration system goes online
We are excited to announce a new online system launched to make it easier for the 5 000 tourist guides in the Western Cape to register, renew and update their details. Until now tourist guides have had to complete application forms in hard copy or via email, but now the Continue Reading
First Group launches a brand-new celebrity-style wedding venue with seven-suite villa
Setting new standards in luxury weddings and accommodation First Group, the forward-thinking hotel and resort management company, is ushering in a new era of lavish, six-star hospitality with the opening of Swallow Cliff Hall, a luxurious wedding venue with a seven-suite villa situated in South Africa’s majestic Drakensberg. An exclusive Continue Reading
The Blue Train resumes operations
Following the National Government’s pronouncements moving the country to alert level 2, The Blue Train is pleased to announce that it will be resuming services for private charters as of September 2020 and leisure travel will resume with a full schedule including some local destinations, from 1st November 2020. While Continue Reading
“We Are Open” domestic tourism campaign launched
Today (27 August 2020), the Western Cape government, together with Wesgro, launched the “We Are Open” domestic tourism campaign to urge South Africans to take advantage and explore the beauty and diversity of the many affordable and world-class attractions that Cape Town and the Western Cape has to offer. With Continue Reading
The Franschhoek Motor Museum
The Franschhoek Motor Museum The Franschhoek Motor Museum is a world class facility situated on the L’Ormarins Estate in the majestic Franschhoek Valley, which is a 1 hour or 75 kilometres drive from central Cape Town. The museum’s Cape Dutch architecture reflects the area’s origins and exhibition space covers 2 700 Continue Reading
BioBlitz – Discovering Plant & Bird Species That Call Babanango Game Reserve Home
Babanango Game Reserve is celebrating the completion of its first BioBlitz – an intense biological survey carried out by a group of scientists, naturalists and volunteers to record all living species within a designated area over a continuous time period. It’s a significant milestone for this new 22,000ha reserve Continue Reading
Mabula Game Lodge reinvented
Mabula Game Lodge reinvented The eagerly awaited refashioning of Mabula Game Lodge is now complete. Whilst the lodge has been closed due to the lockdown during the COVID 19 pandemic, our team have been very busy finalising the large-scale project. The objective of the redesign was to create a contemporary haven Continue Reading