Amadeus Column: Your best travel companion
If you’re anything like me, you can’t imagine life without your smartphone. Imagine you’re driving to the office and you realise that you have forgotten your wallet at home, would you come back?
Personal and on point
Travel loyalty programmes have evolved beyond the traditional model of accumulating and redeeming points, and brands are having to work even harder and smarter to come up with loyalty offerings that appeal to the modern traveller, as Kate Kennedy discovered.
Q&A: Hilton – A ‘brand’ new game
Hilton Worldwide is about to embark on an interesting African roll-out of its Hilton Garden Inn brand, with the letters ‘HGI’ set to feature in locations across the continent. The group’s Executive VP of Global Brands, Jim Holthouser, was recently in South Africa and took time out to further explain the thinking behind this roll-out.
ASATA Column: Moving brains, not bytes
Pick up the phone, pop off an email or Skype up a storm. If there are so many ways to ‘do business’ over cyberspace, why on earth are you packing your bags and trekking across time zones for a business trip?
Steigenberger Alcazar Resort to open in Sharm El Sheikh
The new 5-star Steigenberger Alcazar Resort, on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, will be ready to receive guests from mid-May
Angola visa update
According to Visas & Passports Unlimited all South African visas for Angola must be loaded online at an additional cost of $40 per application, as of 1 March
SAA changes departure closure times
South African Airways has changed the closing time for domestic flights out of Johannesburg, which will come into effect on 1 April
Royal Air Maroc adds second daily flight to Oujda
Royal Air Maroc will provide a second daily flight between the Moroccan cities of Casablanca and Oujda from 11 March
Air Seychelles adds extra SA flight
Air Seychelles will enhance its non-stop regional service to Johannesburg with a fourth weekly frequency as part of a network adjustment for the summer 2016 season