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 [...]
!Xaus Lodge have received the coveted FTTSA certification. FTTSA (Fair Trade in Tourism in Southern Africa) is a quality management system that has assessed the Lodge's performance on the following factors, considered important to Fair Trade: 1. Legal and General Requirements 2. Labour Standards 3. Human Resource Practice 4. Skills Development 5. Employment Equity 6. [...]
The distance your bed linen treks to be laundered is part and parcel of bushveld logistics says Glynn O’Leary, CEO of Transfrontier Parks Destinations (TFPD), when talking about the peculiarities of a bushveld supply chain. My heart sinks every time I have to fill in a form. Physical address? Area? Surely these are simple questions for an [...]
