State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) says it is ready to welcome thousands of international tourists to South Africa’s shores through the country’s commercial and seaports, as the... 

The South African Revenue Service (Sars) will, in November, launch a pilot project to test the implementation of an electronic portal for travelers to make declarations on a voluntary basis, well... 

 Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu on Friday highlighted the close interrelationship between the tourism and airline industries. She was delivering the keynote address at the 2022 Annual General... 

Airline Airlink’s scheduled service between South Africa and St Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, one of the remotest islands in the world, will increase from fortnightly to weekly as of... 

The hospitality industry was hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic; however, this did enable business introspection and the acceleration of technology and innovation, and with the industry now showing... 

The Department of Tourism (DoT) is inviting eligible tourism enterprises to apply for the 2023 Green Tourism Incentive Programme (GTIP) before February 28.  The GTIP, through grant funding,... 

The lifting of travel restrictions in most markets, low unemployment in most countries and expanded personal savings are fuelling a resurgence in demand in the global air transport industry, which... 

In an expert insight article released in June, market research company Frost & Sullivan Africa consultant Nomvo Kasolo says transport start-ups show great growth in sub-Saharan Africa. A wave of... 

The benefit of rope access for routine industrial inspection work was again demonstrated when leading rope access specialist Skyriders Access Specialists successfully completed a project for... 

The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) reports that its Business Confidence Index (BCI) for July, at 110.3, was 1.8 index points higher than in June and 6.1 points higher than... 

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), in partnership with South African Tourism and the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, have collectively launched a travel campaign aimed at... 

South African private-sector regional airline Airlink has announced that it is instituting a new route, linking Johannesburg in South Africa to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The new route has been... 

Sustainable wildlife economies that directly benefit local communities and provide resources to support development, can be created, but require best practices and standardisation to ensure the... 

Experienced engineers are crucial in such a critical and technically-minded sector as engineering, and it is consequently not surprising that the industry players place a premium on the employment... 

A range of tourism and travel organisations and businesses have welcomed the lifting of the last Covid-19 restrictions, including those that had been in place at ports of entry and those... 

The South African Tourism Services Association (Satsa) has called on the Presidency to urgently intervene and declare an immediate moratorium on new and renewal applications for accreditation,... 

As South Africa rebuilds its Covid-19-devastated tourism sector, focus must be given to the development of an inclusive, resilient and transformed tourism industry and economy. Speaking to media... 

Tourism promotion agency Wesgro’s Cruise Cape Town project is optimistic about the 2022/23 cruise ship season, which kicks off in October. Wesgro confirms that 104 ship visits have already been... 

South African National Parks (SANParks) will invest R370-million in infrastructure upgrades and refurbishments at the Kruger National Park (KNP) over the next three years. Funds for the upgrade... 

South African travel and tourism organisations have welcomed the removal of the newly gazetted Covid-19 regulations requiring a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for children under the... 

Community tourism organisation Umgeni Steam Railway has called for public support to repairs to its track following the recent floods. It is calling on the public to donate landfill material, sand,... 

The Western Cape government has welcomed the approval for Delta Air Lines to fly a triangular route between Atlanta, in the US, and Johannesburg and Cape Town. Government entities granted the... 

Big changes are coming up at South African National Parks (SANParks) where contract changes will be made and new products introduced. Key concessionaire contracts such as the Table Mountain Cable... 

Cape Town Tourism has launched the 'Find Your Freedom' experience – an interactive interface, which uses game-style graphics to empower global travellers to choose their Mother City adventure,... 

French companies have announced R50-billion of new investments in South Africa in different sectors, including energy, health, tourism, mobility, retail, manufacturing and agro-industry, the French... 

Several travel industry associations have welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement on March 22 that lifts the requirement for vaccinated inbound travellers to South Africa to show a... 

Western Cape Finance and Economic Opportunities Minister David Maynier says he will continue to apply the necessary pressure to secure a triangular route for US airline Delta Air Lines between... 

In their current format, the draft regulations issued by the Department of Health continue to place unnecessary obstacles to the growth of tourism in South Africa and retain meaningless, no longer... 

Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has expressed concern about the impact of the grounding of Comair's aircraft on the country's tourism sector. The South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) at... 

South African National Parks (SANParks) says it has identified an exciting new pipeline of more than 100 new public-private partnership opportunities for implementation over the next decade. Acting... 

Mpumalanga Finance MEC Vusi Mkhantshwa tabled the province's budget of R56.44-billion on March 9. Eighty-one per cent of the available funds were obtained through transfer receipts from the... 

Proposals for amendments to travel requirements by Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla on March 4, potentially making it easier and cheaper to travel to South Africa, have been welcomed by hospitality... 

Back in 2020 when South Africa went into a strict Covid-19 lockdown, a local company pressed on with opening a hotel with a difference in a tourism hotspot - and two years later that gamble is... 

Destination marketing organisation South African Tourism on March 1 unveiled its first global audio-visual marketing campaign in five years by launching the ‘Live Again’ global campaign, in... 

With the City of Cape Town being an emerging leader in the new energy space in South Africa, Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says hosting the Africa Energy Indaba (AEI) at the Cape Town... 

JSE-listed multinational food service group Bidcorp achieved record sales and trading profits in its emerging markets businesses for the six months ended December 31, the group revealed on February... 

Hospitality industry representative body the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (Fedhasa) reports that South Africa’s tourism and hospitality industry hopes to receive greater...