After almost five months away, we’re finally back!
COVID-19 is still devastating the world but Cape Town Tourism is working hard to keep safety at the heart of its recovery plan and Cape Town International Airport is ready to welcome international gauests. Until borders open, the focus is on domestic tourism across the country. Whether you’re staying at top hotels or enjoying scenic tours, now’s the time to support travel and tourism to keep the industry alive.
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Here are this week’s links:
- COVID-19: Coronavirus Travel Advice – Your Questions Answered
- COVID-19: What travellers in Cape Town need to know
- How Covid-19 Will Affect Visa Applications
- Foreign travellers turned around and sent home from SA
- Statistics confirm major drop in tourism figures as SA lockdown began
- Tourism Business Council slams insurers for non-cover of clients
- Tourism industry faces collapse as insurance companies refuse to pay Covid-19 claims
- SA tourism sector is slowly ‘bleeding to death’ as the lockdown drags on
- Tsogo to take over Mount Grace, Durban’s Edward after Marriott ditches the hotels
- Hilton gives up Cape Town hotel, but says it will stay in SA
- Company in discussions to replace closed Hilton Cape Town City Centre
- Cape Town not hospitable for Hilton as it relinquishes CBD hotel
- Cape hotels put on a brave face while battling to stay afloat amid the pandemic
- Staff cuts loom for iconic Cape Town hotels amid tourism gloom
- Table Bay Hotel and Sun City remain closed
- Cape Town’s Mount Nelson will let over half its staff go
- Mount Nelson may stay closed until end of 2020
- How Cape Town’s top attractions are operating during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Penguins take over Cape Town Aquarium during Lockdown
- Two Oceans Aquarium reopens its doors
- Cape Town icon mothballed by extended Covid lockdown
- Ronnie’s Sex shop on brink of closure
- Cape Town could shed 90,000 tourism jobs due to Covid-19 crisis
- Fears of jobs bloodbath in Cape tourism sector if flight ban not lifted
- The struggles of a local travel startup
- Thando – Cape Town Tourism’s mobile visitor information vehicles – is back on the road
- Is South Africa soon to reopen? Latest updates as Cape Town receives ‘Safe Travels’ stamp
- Cape Town given the World Travel & Tourism Council’s Safe Travels Stamp
- Cape Town receives globally recognised Safe Travels stamp
- Cape Town receives Safe Travels Stamp
- Western Cape receives Safe Travels Stamp
- Safety at the centre of Cape Town’s tourism sector reopening strategy
- TBCSA launches Covid-19 safety app for tourism and hospitality industry
- What the impact of landing on a COVID-19 ‘red list’ means
- Cape Town International wins ‘Best Airport in Africa’ for fifth consecutive time
- SA airports take top honours at 2020 Skytrax World Airport Awards
- WATCH: Cape Town International Airport ready to combat Covid-19
- Cape Town International Airport – The Official Guide | Cape Town Travel
- Cape Town International Airport: What you need to know before you fly
- Air Portugal to launch direct flights between Lisbon, Cape Town
- Delta Airlines to fly to Cape Town from October
- Delta releases details of Cape Town route
- Airlines amend Cape Town service amid Covid-19
- When can we expect air travel to get back to normal?
- Back to travel: What you need to know about air travel
- South African airlines are struggling, but FlySafair hopes to weather the storm
- Seven additional airports to reopen for flights from start of July – Mbalula
- South Africa moves to the next phase of air travel under lockdown – here are the changes
- Cape Town ready for partial reopening of travel sector in level 3 lockdown
- Fedhasa: Hospitality sector needs domestic travel rules relaxed to really reopen
- Minister Kubayi-Ngubane on Coronavirus COVID-19 alert level 3 tourism sector directions
- Leisure travel is allowed, according to Government Gazette
- Level 3: Intra-provincial travel allowed, says tourism industry
- Leisure travel within a province is allowed, says tourism body
- DA calls for clarity on Covid-19 tourism accommodation regulations
- Government clarifies Level 3 leisure travel regulations
- The official word is that leisure travel is not allowed – Fedhasa
- Leisure tourism remains restricted – Tourism Dept
- Presidency announces leisure travel will be allowed – then deletes posts
- Government retracts update on leisure travel
- Whoops! Presidency backtracks on info stating that leisure travel is allowed
- Flip-flop by Presidency on accommodation for leisure issue is unacceptable’
- Outrage over ‘flip-flopping’ by Presidency on leisure travel
- Tourism sector explores legal options after govt gazettes redrafted travel rules
- Protests and petitions: Tourism sector not backing down on leisure travel to go ahead
- Minister Kubayi-Ngubane: Level 3 Coronavirus Covid-19 Regulations for Tourism Sector
- Curfew shifted to 10pm, intra-provincial travel allowed
- Level 3 Covid-19 regulations for travel and tourism | Cape Town Travel
- It’s official! You can now travel for leisure within your province
- Local leisure travel restrictions ease, but you cannot move beyond your home province
- New regulations for accommodation and entertainment announced
- What the tourism industry has to say about new travel regulations
- It’s our bread and butter’: Tourism industry welcomes relaxed regulations
- Tourism industry welcomes easing of regulations, ‘but we need to do more soon’
- Wesgro CEO criticises ban on ‘home-sharing’ options for local leisure travel
- 4 South African spots serving as quarantine hotels
- This Cape Town hotel is allowing people to book self-isolating rooms
- Radisson Blu Waterfront: A look inside a hotel in lockdown | Cape Town Travel
- Inside a hotel at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront that’s remained open to guests
- The President Hotel launches health & safety programme
- A top Cape Town hotel will now do your laundry – and even fix your appliances
- Cape Town hotels and guest houses open to business travellers
- Radisson RED open for essential services during lockdown
- Tsogo Sun hotels open for business travellers
- Enjoy a getaway at one of these Cape Town hotels | Cape Town Travel
- Visit Stellenbosch new initiative to stimulate town’s tourism economy
- Stellenbosch becomes first SA destination to receive Safe Travels Stamp
- Travelling for work? Spier Hotel is open for business!
- Spier leading the way in sustainability
- A South African wine farm allowed stranded guests to stay free of charge during Covid-19
- Cape Winelands hotels become havens for tourists stranded by coronavirus lockdown
- Treat yourself: These spas are open during level 3 lockdown
- Affordable Cape Town Accommodation
- 5 hotels to check into for under R1 000 in Western Cape
- 12 Apostles celebration package
- City Lodge Hotel Group’s weekend special
- Experience Cape Town at affordable prices
- Local is lekker: Be a tourist in Cape Town and win
- Getting to know the Mother City | Cape Town Travel
- Cape named among top post-lockdown destinations
- COVID-19: What travellers in Cape Town need to know
- COVID-19: Coronavirus Travel Advice -Your Questions Answered. | Cape Town Travel
- The Red Bus is Back
- The iconic Red bus is back on Cape Town streets
- City Sightseeing Red Bus is revving up the fleet | Cape Town Trave
- City Sightseeing celebrates Tourism Month with affordable Family Packagesl
- The Best Things To Do During Lockdown in Cape Town + The Winelands
- Table Mountain Cableway reopens in September. Here’s how it will work
- Table Mountain cableway to reopen to visitors
- Cape Town Tourism goes digital
- Virtual Cape Town experiences to enjoy at home | Cape Town Travel
- WATCH: A virtual tour of Cape Town without tourists
- 10 ways to explore Cape Town virtually during lockdown
- Visit these Cape Town attractions from your living room
- Meet the South African woman who travelled the world without leaving her city
- Cape Town Tourism wins top spot in international film awards
- LISTEN: New podcast lets you explore Western Cape in your sleep
- “One Day” tourism campaign launched to inspire future travellers
- Create your dream Cape Town holiday on a Pinterest vision board
- Natural beauty and Sundays by the sea: What expats miss about Cape Town
- Covid-19: Tourism industry preparing for recovery
- Tourism a focal point of Cape Town’s recovery plan | Cape Town Travel
- #LockdownLessons: We need to plan, re-prioritise tourism for a new post-Covid-19 reality
- City plans to reboot Cape tourism industry post-Covid-19 pandemic
- Tourism sector says industry recovery relies mainly on international travellers
- Definitive date for reopening of international travel needed for travel sector’s survival
- SA Tourism pins hopes on govt reopening borders soon to help struggling sector
- South African tourism sector pushing to reopen borders by September
- There will be ‘nothing left’ of tourism industry if it can only reopen in December, warns CEO
- There’s a plan to open up tourism in South Africa but no dates and no certainty
- WC govt to ask national govt to lift travel ban
- Premier Alan Winde calls for borders to reopen
- Local and international calls to reopen SA borders
- International travel: ‘We are working on it’ – Mbalula
- Cape Town Tourism CEO urges government to open domestic travel
- Allow interprovincial travel to halt jobs bloodbath, pleads tourism council
- DA launches petition to allow inter-provincial travel
- DA to petition govt to reopen country’s tourism sector
- Inter-provincial travel ‘may be allowed again’ – if this petition is successful
- Cape Town travel business owners fear closure if things don’t change
- Tourism recovery plan gives sector hope
- SA could reopen for travel between August 2020 and May 2021
- Tourism will pick up in coming months, says Business Council
- Western Cape “ready to start doing business again”
- Thousands of leisure bookings for long weekend shows demand for domestic travel
- Gauteng, WC vow to increase efforts to monitor inter-provincial travel movement
- Level 2 Covid-19 regulations for travel and tourism
- Tourism sector now working on recovering under level 2 lockdown
- Tourism under Level 2: ‘The traveller of yesterday is not the same as today,’ says minister
- Western Cape Government launches “We Are Open” domestic tourism campaign
- CT tourism sector launches recovery plan to overcome lockdown struggles
- Cape Town implements six-pillar strategy to reignite tourism
- City to help tourism bounce back
- Will domestic travel save South Africa’s tourism industry?
- Regional borders may open soon to help boost tourism
- Five ways to help SA’s tourism industry stay alive
- Vote for Cape Town in the 2020 World Travel Awards
- Vote for Cape Town to win big at the World Travel Awards
- Table Mountain cableway nominated for international tourism award
- Cape Town nominated for 5 awards at Africa’s World Travel Awards 2020
- Cape Town In The Running To Win The Ultimate Travel Excellence Accolade
- Plea to open borders as Ramaphosa set to ease lockdown restrictions
- President Ramaphosa announces move to Lockdown Alert Level 1
- Cape Town extends welcome to local and international tourists
- ‘Cape Town feels it has its season back’, says Premier Alan Winde #Level1
- Why South Africans should support domestic travel during level 1
- Tourism sector welcomes level 1 just in time for SA’s summer
- Mbabula gives CT International Airport go ahead to resume international travel
- Cape Town International Airport is ready for foreign visitors
- Cape Town International Airport ready for travellers following inspection
- Western Cape gears up for overseas flights and return of tourists
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