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Technology will help protect ‘Travel Bubbles’ from popping

In 2020, new vocabulary has seeped into global consciousness. From ‘new normal’ to the more practical yet equally disliked ‘social distancing’, the additions to...

An Eye on West Africa

It’s budgeting season again, when hotel owners and managers seek to identify what’s going to happen in 2018. It all used to be so...

ASATA: The importance of membership

Feeling unproductive and restless while travelling for business? Your company’s travel programme might just be too focused on cost and not enough on your...

Q&A: FCM Travel Solutions – Techno-centric

Q: What’s your view on the state of the SA corporate travel market? A: In South Africa, the corporate and government travel market is...

African hotels need to woo the millennial market

In 2019, business travel doesn’t look much like it did 10 years ago. A younger, more tech-savvy global workforce has emerged over the past...

An Eye on West Africa

I’ve written on a few occasions in this column about how the hotel chains are expanding in Africa, signing deals with investors who are...

All welcome

Q: What ‘type’ of business travel do you see coming through Birchwood? A: Birchwood has always been able to accommodate unique and versatile requirements and...

ASATA: Does South Africa need its own ‘travel warnings’?

The recent release of Stephen McGowan has prompted security experts to call upon the government to do more to warn South Africans about the...

An eye on West Africa

Last month I wrote about the brands with new hotels planned in West Africa. Since then I have been looking at the existing hotels...

Q&A: Dynamic growth

Q: What’s your view on the state of the South African business travel industry? A: It is always dynamic. With current economic pressures, we are...

Strong Growth

A lot has happened since Neil Bald joined aha five years ago. The group has grown its portfolio from 12 hotels and lodges to over...

The business of SA’s open borders

The big news of the reopening of South Africa’s international borders from 1 October 2020 means that business travellers to the continent’s most industrialised...