Looks like the travel industry is losing patience with some travel influencers, and their behaviour might have something to do with it.
Here’s a list of the top 10 safest cities in the world to add to your bucket list when planning future trips.
When it comes to South African tourist attractions, the V&A Waterfront is standing head and shoulders above the rest.
Tourists and locals always exist in a delicate balance. When too many visitors descend, it can often lead to something of an identity crisis.
Venice is buckling under the strain of overcrowding related to tourism, with more and more residents leaving. This spells long-term trouble for the city.
Machu Picchu, set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, is one of South America’s premier tourist attractions. Now Peruvian archaeologists fear its future is in danger.
What would you do if you only had 48 hours to explore the Mother City? The Telegraph’s travel expert has some ideas.
When the trailer for a new ‘Crocodile Dundee’ dropped, many were left scratching their heads. Turns out there was an ulterior motive behind the news.
Australia and South Africa have always enjoyed a spot of banter, so here’s hoping they enjoy the new promo video our tourism board Down Under just released.
It’s one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, but locals are up in arms about how the influx of visitors is destroying their way of life.
If you have ever wanted to venture into the world’s most dangerous city, now is your chance. You could even do a bit of clubbing while you’re there.
There sure are a lot of tourists in Cape Town, but what are they all doing here? Well, you might be surprised how many different tourist niches the city offers.
Visit Australia – or not. Here’s the honest tourism advert that all haters of the land Down Under have been waiting for.
In many parts of the modern world certain stereotypes about Africa abound, so here’s our list of the top reasons why you would never visit.
Mississippi is under the pump for a law it just passed this week, so the folks at Funny or Die thought they would highlight just how ridiculous that law is.
Depending on how you feel about heights and enclosed spaces, this hotel could be the coolest night’s sleep you’ll ever get
There is nothing that kills holiday planning more than stringent visa regulations. They can take the fun out of day-dreaming about snowmen and Disney World and the Eiffel Tower. But, that’s life.
The iconic Cape mountain top decides to have a Twitter war with an underwhelmed tourist. Check out the fight here…
MyCiti is one of the best ways to get around Cape Town, and it just got better! There is now an app for that, and it is a little gem of genius! Just one catch…
Everyone needs a little bit of warm fuzzy national love… yes, even you sharp-minded cynics! We LOVE this clip and you will too….
It’s not really a hard sell, is it? But now that Cape Town has been voted the number one city to visit in 2014 by The New Yorker, we thought we’d press the advantage home with this collection of shots, illustrating why you shouldn’t be living anywhere else in the world.
We’re not lying. This is an actual ad for a hotel in Bloemfontein: “Now you can experience staying in a Shanty within the safe environment of a private game reserve. This is the only Shanty Town in the world equipped with under-floor heating and wireless internet access!”
Cape Town has been ranked the third best city to visit in the world in the 2014 Lonely Planet’s 2014 Best In Travel guide, behind Trinidad (Cuba) and Paris (France). Check out Lonely Planet’s opinion of Kaapstad, and the rest of the contenders after the jump
WARNING – Cringe alert. Look, we all know Business Insider is a reputable site full of really cool, useful, relevant information. But when it comes to doing a nifty travel article on South Africa, these guys really know how to apply egg to the face. Did you know, South Africans speak “Cosa”?
If you’ve been to Paris, or are planning to go, Versailles will be on your radar. But the problem with Versailles is that it tends to be rather far away from anywhere you’re likely to be staying. Whether you’ve been, are planning to go, or have elected to give it a miss, we guarantee that you won’t have a view of Versailles like the one on offer in Phoenix’s new drone-shot music video.
China wants their nationals to be more polite when travelling abroad. They are so concerned about their reputation that the Xinhua News Agency ran reports five days in a row, airing videos designed to coach Chinese tourists on how to be more polite abroad. The government is so serious about this that on 1 October a […]
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Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg recently called on creatives to devise a better plan for communication in New York to replace the mangy, disease ridden pay phones currently in operation. The goal of the project was to completely redesign the and rethink the pay phone as a platform for communication, as well as […]
Prince Charles is the descendent of Count Dracula – seriously- he even admits it (video inside). And the bloodsucking Romanian National Tourist Office is using the link to sell holiday packages to would-be UK tourists.
Berlin has just shot to the number three most visited tourist destination in Europe, coming in just behind London and Paris. The difference is that London and Paris have been hosting tourists for a good few hundred years. Berlin, on the other had, has only been welcoming guests for the last 20. Ze Germans aren’t too happy about this.
A huge development is on the cards for the stretch of coastline from Cape Point to Gordon’s Bay. It would turn the area into the Copacabana of Cape Town, MEC Alan Winde has said.