GEORGE NEWS - The annual Africa's Travel Indaba took place from 2 to 4 May at the Durban Exhibition Centre in Kwazulu Natal. This year, the Garden Route and Klein Karoo (GRKK) regional tourism office attended the three-day indaba at the Cape Town and Western Cape stand, together with the regional tourism offices of the Western Cape.
The highlight for the region was that Wesgro, in conjunction with South African Tourism, facilitated a post-indaba tour to the Garden Route and Klein Karoo, which commenced on Sunday 5 May.
Five international tour operators / hosted buyers, mainly from the United States of America, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany, arrived in the Garden Route and Klein Karoo region on Sunday for a three-day educational tour. The tour and itinerary were coordinated through the regional tourism offices in collaboration with the local tourism offices in the region.
The aim of the post-indaba tour is to give buyers a taste of the GRKK, showcasing what the region has to offer as a tourist destination, to encourage them to promote the region to potential visitors from abroad and to include the region in their tour packages.
As in previous years, the 2019 indaba re-affirmed itself as one of the largest tourism marketing events on the African calendar and as one of the top three "must do" events of its kind on the global tourism market.
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