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Articles tagged “south africa”

Airlines

South African budget airline strands hundreds of flyers after liquidation announcement

1Time Airline knew of its financial problems and should have cancelled flights and refunded tickets prior to grounding its entire fleet.

South African budget airline strands hundreds of flyers after liquidation announcement

SkiftX

SkiftStats: South Africa’s tourism numbers buoyed by Chinese, Indian & Brazilian tourists

BRIC countries, as they grow, are also propping up the tourism economies of countries that traditionally relied on European and Western tourists, like South Africa.

Airlines

South African Airways is the top airline in Africa but it still can’t get its financial house in order

SAA has everything going for it except itself. It's failure to get a hold on all the moving parts of running an airline starts at the top.

Tourism

South Africa befriends Bollywood in hopes of getting more screen time

Cape Town has realized you don't need a catchy slogan or expensive tourism campaign to boost tourism, instead star in a film -- a method that destinations from Italy to New Zealand to Morocco have proven will work.

Media and PR

Now it’s bloggers’ turn for junkets: Cape Town Tourism looks to new media for coverage

Blogging has real benefits for destination marketing, but the iAmbassador program (and others like it) create a false sense of value based upon a wave of chatter without any corresponding mainstream interest.