Southern Spoor has added the trendy BlackBrick hotel in Sandton to its portfolio.With an exposed black brick façade, BlackBrick is a striking mixed-use residential building setting a new tre…
Soweto Business Events Council joins SA Events Council
The Soweto Chapter of the Township Events Business Council of South Africa (TEBCO-SA) has come on board as the 14th member of the South African Events Council (SAEC).SAEC is an industry-wide coalit…
Lounges remain closed at ORTIA
Business- and first-class passengers have been complaining that none of the premium-class lounges at OR Tambo international Airport departures have reopened.Johannesburg-based ITC, Rene Toner, said…
New attraction honours Zimbabwe heroine
One of the pioneers of Zimbabwe’s First Chimurenga (liberation struggle), Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana – popularly known as Mbuya Nehanda – will be honoured with a statue in Harare …
Botswana expected to resume inbound charters
The charter flight industry in Botswana is reportedly expecting a formal announcement from the government on the introduction of regional, and possibly even international, charter flights to the co…
WTM Virtual platform goes live
WTM Virtual, the digital meeting space for this year’s WTM London and London Travel Week, is now live and open for registered delegates to use.“We’re delighted to announce that WT…
From ‘Black Star’ to low-hanging fruit
We republish this insight by Marianne Thamm into the man who crippled tourism, with the permission of, and with thanks to Daily Maverick, who, through its unrelenting investigative reporting, has p…
Letter to the editor: ‘Complex protocols could obstruct face-to-face events’
Managing Director of the MICE Academy, Helen Brewer, writes in reaction to the Safety First column by Mike Lord.“The MICE Academy, representing end-user/clients – in other words those t…
Poll results: Be flexible!
Last week Tourism Update asked readers to share their views on flexible booking policies post-COVID.A substantial majority were in favour of more flexibility, with 69% of voters saying it would be …
ET offers free COVID-19 cover
Ethiopian Airlines has resumed commercial flights to Johannesburg and Cape Town and has introduced free COVID-19 Global Insurance Cover for all passengers travelling with the airline.The cover is a…