If you would like your establishment, event, accommodation, airline, train line, restaurant to be featured on our website, please contact us so we can send you the details. We would love to assist in any way we can.
Events
MICHAEL FERGUSON LIVE
DONT MISS THIS!! FRIDAYS IN JULY
He’s back from his first taste of performing abroad in Europe – Catch Michael Ferguson on his home turf, South Africa, for the best in live entertainment at the Dros Northriding, Fridays in July! For bookings, please call (011) 462 – 3478. #cyouthere
Michael Ferguson – Live @ Dros Northriding!
INDABA 2015
After not having attended INDABA for the last 2 years, my friend Sandy and I decided to book a
Kulula last minute flight from Lanseria and go an see “what we were missing” 
We arrived in a very humid Durban on Saturday afternoon and made our way to the guest house we were staying at. (another story for another day! 
), had an early dinner at a very cute restaurant on Umhlanga beach and then back to the guest house for an early night. ***
Up with the birds on Sunday morning and with the help of a very irritating GPS, eventually found our way to ICC. Now we had to get in!! Ticket to Indaba, if you are not an exhibitor or with the media are R604
each!! So there Sandy and I had to work out a way to get in without having to spend R1208 for the day. We eventually got in as media. (It helps to carry my NIKON camera and bag sometimes, although flippen cumbersome!!) Then came the great trek….from one impressive stand to another. I have to add here that Sandy and I were both having ‘power surges’, while carrying +/- 30kg’s between us of brochures, booklets and business cards. NOT FUN 
, unless you were watching us! 
I was saddened to see that the once ‘have to have a stand’ INDABA has shrunk by half of 
what it used to be. I remember the days when AA had a huge colourful stand and ALL the AA staff used to make the trek down to Durban for a full week! What fun that was! No more of this I’m afraid. The once prestigious AA Accommodation Awards that used to take place in the Duban City Town Hall no longer takes place. 
Didnt see an AA stand and although I looked, I could not find a TGCSA stand either.
Nevertheless, we made sure that we saw everything there was to see, visited the people we had appointments with, tasted the snacks on offer (mostly endearmints which are highly addictive when you are hungry!
) and met people we had not seen in years. Back in the day this would have taken 2 days to do. It took us 6 hours.
So the question arises… Why has INDABA shrunk so much? What can be done to revive this once vibrant, exciting showcase of all things tourism and travel? Most of the companies, guest houses, lodges, safari companies etc that I spoke to had a common answer. “It has become too expensive!!” Come on SA Tourism and sponsors, hear what the people are saying and lets sort this out! 
