Mohamed was only 17 years old when he began working as a guide in Debdab: a border area in Algeria between two countries, Libya and Tunisia. It was only a summer job, but it opened his eyes to the tourism...
Twenty-one years ago, a passion for taking risks and an intense love of South Africa and its people drove Kim van der Westhuizen into a career in tourism. She began as an administrative assistant issuing...
Dianna has been the General Manager of Marketing, Promotions, Tourism and Events for the Northern Cape Tourism Authority since 2011. In that time, she has overseen a successful 98% growth in foreign room...
After starting his career in travel, Anthony decided to leave the family business and forged a very successful 20-year career in advertising and marketing. Anthony worked for global companies including J Walter...
Helen Bolton presently heads up the New Frontiers Tours Sales Team. She began her career in Inbound Tourism in 1996 with Thompsons Tours, an exciting and growing sector of the industry at this time and often credited as...
Travel advising is actually Anne-Marie’s third career. In university, she studied to be a broadcast journalist, and worked as a TV news reporter for nearly six years before she realized her true passion was in...
Isabelle Dechamps was born and bred in Antwerp, Belgium but has been living happily in Cape Town, South Africa, for over 22 years. She is happily married with two sons aged six and ten. Isabelle has been in the industry...
Timo Saressalo is the Managing Director at Starlight Tours which specializes in interesting and high-quality trips, exotic and little-known destinations, authentic experiences and countries not yet covered by the...
Rune Engstrøm, Director at Destination Africa, recognised the gap for a specialist in Africa that deals with the Scandanavian market and, similarly, the need for a South African expert based in Scandanavia. Destination...
David Germain is a Seychelles national he is a result-driven person who has worked in several challenging managerial positions in the Indian Ocean Islands and on the African continent. He has vast travelling experience...
Kirsty Knott has been a sales executive at Beachcomber for over 2 and a half years, previously a sales rep at Thompsons Holidays and prior to that a travel consultant at Pentravel. More than that she...
Sarah Cornwell is a travel industry news specialist and magazine editor, based in Cape Town. Managing Editor of Travel Industry Review (TIR) Southern Africa for more than eight years, as a freelance journalist and...
Joseph Sanna has over 20 years’ experience in the travel and hospitality sector in Kenya most of which at the Kenya Tourism Board. He has consistently won the recognition of leading tourism marketing event...
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