by Julie Womack | Mar 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
SA’s inbound tourism has made 81,79% recovery of the 2019 levels. Cape Town and Kruger have a higher percentage of recovery compared to the rest of the country. As you can see there has been uneven recovery over the provinces and this could be due to: some regions...
by Julie Womack | Apr 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
MPUMALANGA AND LIMPOPO PROVINCE INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL TOUR For qualified culture guides who want to extend their knowledge with the popular tours in Mpumalanga and Limpopo Provinces. For tour operators who want practical knowledge of the distances, routes, road...
by Julie Womack | Jun 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
COVID has nearly crippled tourism worldwide as people were placed in lockdowns and countries restricted local and international travel. As restrictions slowly lifted, SA was further isolated by being placed on some of its key tourism partner countries RED List. When...
by Julie Womack | Sep 3, 2020 | Tour Guiding
Course dates for 2022 Tour Operator Course: see details under Training Courses Cost : R 3 000 Tourist Guide Courses: 3 x Full time courses: 08:30 – 17:00 17 – 28 Jan 2022 3 – 13 May 2022 3 – 14 Oct 2022 Cost : R7 200 Online Courses: Start date...
by Julie Womack | Aug 1, 2020 | Tour Guiding
Due to COVID-19 and the strict lockdown rules in South Africa, the tourism industry has been devastated. Over 1,5 million people are normally employed in tourism and for every 1 tourist about 8 people in South Africa are employed. Tourism also brings in R748 000 000...
by Julie Womack | May 23, 2020 | Tour Guiding
Who would have thought 6 months ago that the world could come to a standstill and no travel and tourism would be allowed? Tourism in South Africa and in most countries in the world, has died. This means millions of people are without work and for the majority no form...
by Julie Womack | Nov 16, 2016 | Tour Guiding
Cape Town Tourism attended the 8th African Road Show in North America. This show was to promote tourism in Africa and to gain insight into what the North American market wants. Their findings show that “Cape Town is well-known and remains a favourite destination...
by Julie Womack | Jun 13, 2015 | Tour Guiding
Tourist Guide Institute attended a workshop with the City of Cape Town’s Local Government Services on 10 June 2015. These are some of the interesting facts and statistics given by the different speakers and my thoughts and questions that arise from these...
by Julie Womack | Oct 28, 2013 | Tour Guiding
It is a privilege being a tourist guide as you get to meet the most amazing people, besides your clients, along the way, accommodation hosts, chefs and kitchen staff, bus drivers, site guides, other tourist guides, local people and many others. You also get to see...
