Tag Archives: #gamechanger
Municipalities around South Africa are wasting millions of rands promoting themselves and killing tourism in the process. No-one gives a damn about what municipal area they are visiting – and why should they? If you visit a tourism trade show … Continue reading
In 2007, driving through Langebaan towards Club Mykonos for the first time in ages, I was horrified by the huge housing estates — many Tuscan — that were primarily second/holiday homes which were empty for a large part of the … Continue reading
There are hundreds of millions of Rands of foreign donor funding in these projects. It should be an embarrassment to every South African. Dear Pravin Gordhan, please prohibit all Eastern Cape local government institutions from receiving any further foreign … Continue reading
I drove into George — the supposed capital of the Garden Route — at lunchtime on a Sunday looking for the information office. I found the town as dead as a dodo after the irritation of unsynchronised traffic lights in … Continue reading
Mossel Bay has been on the up-and-up for some time and tourism numbers to the area have grown steadily. The town includes more rural areas like Boggomsbaai (where Beezus and I stayed) on the Cape Town side to Herolds Bay … Continue reading
Most tourism offices whinge about inadequate budgets without demonstrating that they do provide value for money or create significant numbers of extra jobs with taxpayers’ funding. Well, Swellendam has turned the “liability” of development on its head and gained itself … Continue reading
There’s not that much to attract a traveller to stop in the main road that runs through Robertson, especially if you’re driving eastwards. It’s probably an engineer’s dream road, but it’s hardly inviting. But driving into Robertson’s residential areas shows … Continue reading
