Hilka Birns

Hilka Birns

SAA, Air Mauritius get closer

01 Nov 2019

‘Another carrier will fill the gap left by Thomas Cook’ – CPT Air Access

25 Oct 2019

Huge publicity campaign critical following end of UBC nightmare

14 Oct 2019

Airline industry welcomes visa progress

11 Oct 2019

Tintswalo Atlantic reopens

01 Oct 2019

‘Flight shame’ offers opportunity for SA

16 Sep 2019

Is your business a ‘green champion’?

29 Aug 2019

Renewing their marketing partnership at a signing ceremony in Cape Town: Cape Town Tourism CEO, Enver Duminy, and NYC & Company MD Tourism Market Development, Makiko Matsuda Healy. Photo credit: Hilka Birns

New York and Cape Town renew marketing partnership

27 Aug 2019

Lucid Ventures founder Gidon Novick (left) with Michael Pownall, managing partner of Valor Hospitality Parter, which manages Home* Suites Hotels.

Industry maverick calls for optimism and innovation in hospitality

16 Aug 2019

How to raise the bar on service standards in South Africa

14 Aug 2019

Launching the Forbes Travel Guide in Cape Town recently were (from left) Forbes VP Partner Services Africa, Jeff Rosenberg; LobsterInk Account Director Africa & Indian Ocean, Max Lund; and Forbes Senior VP Learning & Development, Jeff Wielgopolan.

Forbes Travel Guide enters South Africa

13 Aug 2019

Special task team set up after tourist killed

29 Jul 2019

Tourism industry acts to mitigate Mount Nelson robbery impact

18 Jul 2019

Rental apps make the car rental process easier and more streamlined.

Car-rental apps that clients should be aware of

27 May 2019

How to sell adventurous, purposeful honeymoons

23 May 2019

No need to leave the family behind for a romantic getaway.

Finding romance on a family getaway

10 May 2019

Makalali Lodge, aha.

How to sell adventurous, purposeful honeymoons

10 May 2019

Alderman James Vos being congratulated by Cape Town Mayor, Dan Plato.

Project Ithuba to spur tourism growth in Cape Town

04 May 2019

African countries refusing fifth freedom rights to carriers from other African countries bedevil implementation of SAATM.

Fifth freedom resistance bedevils SAATM implementation

29 Apr 2019

MICE tourism industry can propel growth in African aviation.

MICE tourism can propel African aviation growth

26 Apr 2019

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