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Nombulelo Guliwe
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2024: Unveiling key trends in the travel and tourism sector

#BizTrends2024: Unveiling key trends in the travel and tourism sector
[Nombulelo Guliwe] Today and tomorrow’s traveller is highly evolved, technologically. But far from being detached, unfeeling robots, they are still deeply human, and seek meaningful human experiences, writes SA Tourism’s acting CEO Nombulelo Guliwe...

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Martin Wiest
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2024: Top 10 travel trends for 2024

#BizTrends2024: Top 10 travel trends for 2024
[Martin Wiest] Martin Wiest, CEO of Tourvest Destination Management, provides insights into the future of travel, offering a glimpse into the trends that will shape our journeys and connections in the years to come...

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Sabine Lehmann
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2024: 5 tourism and travel megatrends to take note of in 2024

#BizTrends2024: 5 tourism and travel megatrends to take note of in 2024
[Sabine Lehmann] Sabine Lehmann, founder and CEO of Curiositas, reveals the five megatrends shaping the tourism and travel landscape in 2024. She shares a roadmap for businesses to stay ahead...

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Natalia Rosa
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2024: Practical AI for tourism businesses – saving time for your highest-value work

#BizTrends2024: Practical AI for tourism businesses – saving time for your highest-value work
[Natalia Rosa] Natalia Rosa, founder and CEO of Big Ambitions, shares actionable AI insights for the tourism industry...

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Stewart Smith
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2023: How hoteliers should prepare for a cookieless world using first-party data

#BizTrends2023: How hoteliers should prepare for a cookieless world using first-party data
[Stewart Smith] To stay competitive this year and beyond, hoteliers must find new ways to collect and activate data, says Stewart Smith, managing director of sales, Middle East and Africa at Sojern...

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Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2023: Renewed focus on domestic, intra African travellers among top themes for 2023

Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, CEO, Tourism Business Council of South Africa
Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, CEO, Tourism Business Council of South Africa
[Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa] Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, CEO of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa shares the top themes that will influence domestic and intra African travellers in 2023...

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Hariprasad Viswanathan
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2023: Technology, sustainable travel to go hand-in-hand as the world continues to be on the move

#BizTrends2023: Technology, sustainable travel to go hand-in-hand as the world continues to be on the move
[Hariprasad Viswanathan] Hariprasad Viswanathan, head of sub-Saharan Africa at VFS Global shares five key trends that will impact international travel in 2023...

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Enver Duminy
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2023: Bridging the skills shortage gap is key to the travel and tourism industry's post-pandemic recovery

#BizTrends2023: Bridging the skills shortage gap is key to the travel and tourism industry's post-pandemic recovery
[Enver Duminy] A collaborative effort to upskill our unemployed workforce is crucial for the future of the travel and tourism sector, says Enver Duminy, CEO of Cape Town Tourism...

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Paul de Waal
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2023: The reckoning of 2023

#BizTrends2023: The reckoning of 2023
[Paul de Waal] Paul de Waal, founder and CEO of Wetu says that 2023 will be a year filled with opportunities and that forming the balance between human and digital is imperative for success in a tech-heavy world...

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Jonathan Ayache
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: Flexibility, bleisure travel and flexcations are the new normal in travel

Jonathan Ayache, Founder and CEO of Lift
Jonathan Ayache, Founder and CEO of Lift
[Jonathan Ayache] If we've learnt anything over the last two years, it's the importance of pivoting your business to adapt to the ever-changing environment...

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Sue Garrett
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: 6 sustainable travel trends set to dominate in 2022

#BizTrends2022: 6 sustainable travel trends set to dominate in 2022
[Sue Garrett] Since 2020, the travel and tourism industries have primarily focused on health and safety, fighting tooth and nail for survival following the global impact of Covid-19. However, that doesn't mean that travel brands...

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Andrew Rogers
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: The rise and rise of aparthotels

#BizTrends2022: The rise and rise of aparthotels
[Andrew Rogers] The tourism, hospitality and property sectors bore the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic's transformative economic and social impact...

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Alan Campbell
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: The rise of the domestic traveller

#BizTrends2022: The rise of the domestic traveller
[Alan Campbell] Alan Campbell, sales and marketing director at ANEW Hotels & Resorts, tells us why we should use this opportunity to explore our own country, which has more to offer the leisure and business traveller than even South Africans realise...

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Carol Weaving
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: Acquired agility will underpin hybrid events

#BizTrends2022: Acquired agility will underpin hybrid events
[Carol Weaving] When the sheer scale of the global pandemic became clearer in early February 2020, there was little in the way of formal, comparable data to help the events industry understand Covid-19's immediate and longer-term impact on our customers and our events...

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Sabine Lehmann
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: The future of out-of-home entertainment

#BizTrends2022: The future of out-of-home entertainment
[Sabine Lehmann] To compete successfully with in-home entertainment in a post-pandemic era, OOH entertainment options need to understand how the world has changed and find ways to give us what we want beyond the four walls of our homes...

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Rosemary Anderson
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: 10 insights impacting hospitality and global travel for 2022

#BizTrends2022: 10 insights impacting hospitality and global travel for 2022
[Rosemary Anderson] The hospitality sector has had to re-evaluate, rethink, reimagine and reset as to how it can be relevant in a post-Covid-19 world...

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Natalia Rosa
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2022: Tourism tribe, let's be more intentional in 2022

#BizTrends2022: Tourism tribe, let's be more intentional in 2022
[Natalia Rosa] Like a toddler on a sweetie binge, 2021 served up an unending frenzy of opportunity and devastation. Sometimes the only thing separating these have been a few blissful hours of ignorance, particularly if you work in the travel, tourism and hospitality sector...

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Oz Desai
SOUTH AFRICA
Travel trends for 2022: The rise of revenge travel, bleisure trips, and workations

Travel trends for 2022: The rise of revenge travel, bleisure trips, and workations
[Oz Desai] The pandemic caused everyone to lose out on the opportunity to enjoy life to the fullest for well over a year, whether that meant having to put much-anticipated adventures on hold or not being able to spend time...

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Chelsey Hale
SOUTH AFRICA
Virtual reality and tourism in 2021

Virtual reality and tourism in 2021
[Chelsey Hale] "Virtual reality, or VR, is something that we have heard a lot about over the last few months - especially in response to Covid-19. It is becoming a big part of travel and tourism with many questions cropping up on what it looks like, how it works and, most importantly, how we can leverage it."

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Natalia Rosa
SOUTH AFRICA
#BizTrends2021: The value shift - how the travel customer has changed

#BizTrends2021: The value shift - how the travel customer has changed
[Natalia Rosa] For those of us who work in the travel industry, we know that travel as we knew and loved it, is over. As consumers grapple with uncertainty during this time, their purchasing behaviour has become more erratic and quite frankly almost impossible to predict...

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