Dear Partners in Tourism I’m sure that all will agree that being in tourism is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Considering what we’ve been through during the last 2 years…
Dear Partners in Tourism, We’re emerging from our winter (luckily, mostly sunny in Johannesburg!) and heading into spring and summer. Naturally, our summer period is very popular with tourists looking…
Dear Partners Things are definitely looking more positive than this time last year (or the year before!). Last year it was a December of travel-bans and Omicron doom. We’re a…
Dear Partners in Tourism, Best Wishes for 2025! We wish all our partners a successful, prosperous and enriching year ahead. It has indeed been a year since my last newsletter.…
Dear Partners in Tourism, The world has changed in the six months since my previous newsletter update – but we should be used to it by now considering the last…
Dear Partners in Tourism, It has been quite a while since our last newsletter – although we’ve naturally stayed in contact with our key partners. The post-Covid rollercoaster has certainly…
Dear Partners in Travel, Machaba Safaris extended an invitation for me to attend an educational trip to Robin’s Camp situated in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. This also allowed…
Dear Partners in Travel, The omicron variant appearance caused that we suddenly had some time on our hands in January due to the related cancellations & slowdown. We thus did…
Dear Partners in Tourism, Another year; another newsletter…..well, to be frank we’ve all been through too many WTF moments over the last 2 years to stomach another boring newsletter. I…
Dear Partners in Tourism I was in Cape Town recently to participate in the Cape Town marathon. What was significant about the event, was that it was one of the…
Off the beaten track Cape: Overberg, Cederberg & West Coast
Dear Partners in Travel, I had the opportunity to take one of our Nordic agents on a site inspection trip at the end of January. We focussed on some of…
Dear Partners in Tourism, Covid19 has given us at Royal African Discoveries a bit more time to explore some of the remote parts of the country. Pieter & I recently…
Dear Partners in Tourism, It is Spring in Southern Africa – as I look out from my office window the Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Tree is in full bloom with…
Dear Partners in Travel, I had the opportunity to accompany one of our Finnish agents on a whirlwind site inspection trip around the Greater Kruger National Park and Cape Winelands.…
Dear Partners in Tourism, Best recovery wishes and we hope this communication finds you in good health. It has been a while since my last official newsletter – pre-COVID in…
South Africa’s borders are open and we look forward to welcoming clients back to this incredible destination. During the period that our international borders were still closed, Pieter and I…
South Africa’s borders are open and we look forward to welcoming clients back to this incredible destination. During the period that our international borders were still closed, Pieter and I…
South Africa’s borders are open and we look forward to welcoming clients back to this incredible destination. During the period that our international borders were still closed, Pieter and I…
South Africa’s borders are open and we look forward to welcoming clients back to this incredible destination. During the period that our international borders were still closed, Pieter and I…
Dear Partners in Travel, George and Wilderness Tourism recently extended the opportunity to Pieter and myself to experience and view some of the product and activities available on the George/Wilderness…
The South African government has announced that international borders will open again on 1 October 2020 (certain conditions apply for international tourists and leisure tourists from ‘high risk countries are…
Domestic travel in South Africa has been possible since late August and we used the opportunity to visit a few safari lodges in the Hoedspruit area of the greater Kruger…
As with many of you, the Royal African Discoveries team is eagerly awaiting and dreaming about the day we can welcome back clients to our shores. We were again reminded…
Royal African Discoveries and Shamwari Private Game Reserve have been hosting live safari experiences. So far we have done 2 sessions. Please click on the links to view the recordings.
Dear Partners in Travel, We trust you and your family are safe in these difficult times and like us eagerly awaiting the day that we can again welcome tourist to…
First-hand feedback from Pieter’s recent trip to the Cape Winelands. Stellenbosch Although the smaller neighbouring town of Franschhoek is normally higher on the list of preferred locations for clients to…
First-hand feedback from Johan's recent trip to Shamwari Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape. Shamwari Long Lee Manor: The lodge wasn’t just refurbished but actually closer to totally rebuilt.…
Dear Partners in Tourism, Best wishes for 2020! We wish all our partners around the world a successful and prosperous year and decade. The year started ‘full steam’ immediately with…
