We are extremely proud to announce that the Batlokoa Community received the MEC’s Service Excellence Award for our very own Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge at the Free State Lilizela Awards. The award was celebrated on Thursday evening, where they honoured the staff for a job well done. The Lilizela Award recognises and rewards tourism players and businesses who [...]
"We seemed to be floating on a cloud. The basalt cliffs towered above us and the last light of day enveloped the Drakensberg's peaks like molten amber. It was a very good place to share a mug of whisky with friends...." The Getaway magazine featured our very own Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge in the August issue. [...]
We're so excited to announce that we have been nominated in this year's World Responsible Tourism Awards. After our Gold and Silver wins at WTM Africa in Cape Town earlier this year for the Responsible Tourism Africa Awards, we've received our nomination in the international category, positioning us amongst some of the world's very best in [...]
We've just returned from another fantastic trip to Durban for the annual travel show, INDABA. As usual, it was a jam-packed event, with over 1000 exhibitors and 2000 travel buyers attending this year's event. Known as Africa's top travel show, INDABA is one of the largest tourism marketing events on the African calendar and one [...]
We are beaming with pride after it was announced yesterday, that we are the joint winners of a Gold Award at the annual Responsible Tourism Africa Awards. The TFPD nomination for a Responsible Tourism Award for ‘Best in Poverty Reduction’ came for building and sustaining viable tourism jobs in remote rural areas, as well as creating local-area [...]
This evening the finalists for the inaugural Responsible Tourism Africa Awards for 2015 were announced. Transfrontier Parks Destinations (TFPD) are proud to be included in the final list of 22 responsible tourism operations that will contest the 7 categories. TFPD have been nominated for the 'Best for Povery Reduction' category, and the essence of their [...]
