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Sun International plans trade attack
BY STEVE HARTRIDGE Sun International will look to the
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trade to help build on early ‘positive signs’ that bookings to its Southern Africa properties in 2012 are definitely on the increase. Two fam trips out to hotels that include The Table Bay Hotel (Cape Town), The Palace of the Lost City (North West Province) and The Royal Livingstone Hotel (Zambia) are planned for the first half of 2012, UK workshop dates are being finalised and the company will roll out its new online training programme with Travel Uni in the next month. Sun International also hopes to launch an agents’ incentive this month (February), said the hotel group’s UK country manager, Fiona Malan. “It’s more important than ever for us
to be working closely with all those selling Southern Africa and it’s exciting to be part of the renewed energy for the destination. WTM in November
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felt like a turning point and it was so encouraging to see everyone getting proactive and enthusiastic about the focus on Africa once more,” she said. “At least three of the big operators
we work with have said it’s been a very positive start to 2012 and the pick-up has been good. “It is still early days yet, but since October we have been able to grow our forecast gently month on month and I am hoping to see some very positive numbers by end February.” (See South Africa feature, page 32).
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Bush and beach option in Kenya Kenya-bound clients will soon have
a new beach and safari option to choose from. The new luxurious Amani Tiwi Beach Resort, due to open near Diani Beach in Mombasa, will feature 209 rooms and a 197-metre-long outdoor swimming pool, the largest in Mombasa. It will also have its own private beach. Amani Tiwi Beach is a protected area
for turtles and last year there were several sightings of them laying eggs. This month (February) will see the launch of a new 10-suite tented camp
AFRICA IN BRIEF
Carrier has SA real deal Carrier is offering a nine-nights-
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www.osborneandebel.com
for-the-price-of-eight South Africa package until March 31 2012. Priced from £4,450pp – a saving of £2,210 per couple – the deal includes four nights at the Cape Grace, a night on The Blue Train, four nights at the Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve and Virgin flights.
www.carrier.co.uk
Tanzania’s an African Odyssey Africa Odyssey has a seven-night package at the beach retreat of Ras Kutani, in southern Tanzania, priced from £1,869pp, a saving of £376 on selected dates throughout June and July, including return flights from Heathrow, internal transfers, full-board accommodation, taxes and surcharges.
www.africaodyssey.com
in the private 50,000-acre Naboisho Conservancy, run by eco-adventure pioneers Basecamp Explorer, which hosted Barak Obama and his family during their Kenya visit.
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