Known for her passion for the tourism industry and as someone who “gets things done”, Hannelie was promoted to COO in January 2017 at SATSA. Her proven track record speaks for itself, throughout...
Adrian Coley, a goal-driven individual has spent his career ensuring guests and clients get a real grip on what a Zambian safari is all about. Owner of Flatdogs Camp located on the border of the South...
Aspirational Thembi took over as Head of George Airport and went on and became the first and youngest black female to manage an airport in South Africa. From here, her tourism career took off and was appointed...
A family man at heart, adventurer by nature and entrepreneur by day – Johan has incorporated adventure in to his everyday life. Growing up in a small town with lots of freedom, meant that this was built into his day-to...
Jo joined the WTM Africa team in 2015, but has worked on World Travel Market London for nearly 35 years. As someone who strives to be a successful sales person and individual, she says WTM is such a wonderful brand to...
Monika is the Chief Marketing Officer at Wesgro- the official tourism, trade and investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape. How did you fall in love with travelling? My parents moved us around...
We decided to have sustainability at the core of tours with storytelling and impact, so that’s how Turnup.Travel was born with a triple bottom line approach to travel, content creation and CSR. How did you fall...
Passionate traveller and entrepreneur, Renil Hamza, has always had the urge to travel and explore different cultures and destinations and he’s fed his wanderlust by visiting 50+ countries as a traveller, not a tourist...
Jared Ruttenburg is an independent travel journalist who has had the privilege of profiling over 120 of South Africa’s most beautiful places in word, photo and social media. He writes weekly for several publications...
Sabine’s work focuses specifically on the visitor attractions industry and the future of how people will engage with leisure time. This has always afforded her amazing opportunities for travel. As Managing Director of...
A biotech engineer turned advertiser turned travel designer, Shanam’s professional life has been a journey in itself. She claims to have been bitten by the famed travel bug in her childhood and insists that the effect...
Walid joined Swissair at the end of 1992. He quickly discovered its extensive network, thanks to the airline’s travel facilities. Walid was snapping up every opportunity to spend 2-3 days abroad and, as a result, travel...
When Silke left her home country to work abroad in Africa, she says that it was love at first sight! She claims to have gotten ‘addicted’ to Africa and its lifestyle; going on safari, beautiful places to stay, the...
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