The City of Cape Town has taken another step towards the fostering of green energy and reducing Cape Town’s carbon footprint. The Mayoral Committee has recommended to Council that it establishes an Energy & Climate Change Committee at its Council meeting on Thursday 26 April. This committee will ensure that Cape Town’s energy plan reduces the [...]
City of Cape Town turns off the lights in support of Earth Hour 2012
The City of Cape Town will be switching off the lights on Table Mountain and in its own buildings for one hour in support of the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Earth Hour 2012, which takes place on Saturday 31 March from 20:30 to 21:30 (local time). “The City will join hundreds of millions of people, [...]
Cape Town Supports Responsible Tourism Week 2012
CITY OF CAPE TOWN MEDIA RELEASE 9 FEBRUARY 2012 Cape Town supports Responsible Tourism Week Now in its fourth year, Responsible Tourism Week takes place from 13 – 19 February 2012. This year Cape Town joins the world in discussing responsible tourism around the chosen theme ‘A responsible approach to tourism is good for business’. [...]
How to use RT to help your company’s bottom line
UPDATE: 9 February 2012 – Event fully booked. No additional space available. Presentations will be posted to Slideshare as soon as possible, and tweets live from the event will use the #rtweek2012 hashtag. Stay tuned to ResponsibleCapeTown.co.za/blog or follow @respCPT for updates. Cape Town’s tourism industry has been through challenging times recently and the future holds a [...]
Responsible Tourism Week 2012: 13-19 February
Responsible Tourism Week is a free, seven-day unconference exploring down-to-earth applications of noble concepts including responsible tourism, conscious travel, the local travel movement and ecotourism with effective and inexpensive social media and local events. This unconventional, online ‘unconference’ begins on Monday, 13 February and continues through Sunday, 19 February. Anyone can participate by joining the conversation, either online or with local friends, neighbours and colleagues, or [...]
South African Fair Trade Travel Guide Launched
South African Tourism (SAT) and Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA) announced the launch of South Africa: A Fair Trade Travel Guide. It is currently available in electronic format from the FTTSA website. The guide book includes only those organisation that are currently FTTSA certified, of which nine (four accommodation providers and five tour [...]
Cape Town winners at 2011 Imvelo Awards
Southern Africa’s responsible tourism awards, the Imvelo Awards, were announced on 9 November 2011, World Responsible Tourism Day. Cape Town-based companies were well represented, comprising 12 of the 38 finalists and winning 6 of 14 awards (with 3 Cape Town finalists also part of a 7th award given to their hotel group and one finalist [...]
Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award winners 2011
The 2011 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award winners were announced on 9 November, World Responsible Tourism Day. African nations were well represented among the winners and those highly commended, including Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Morocco. The full list of winners is the following: Joint overall winners: Robin Pope Safaris & Sockmob Events/Unseen Tours Best in [...]
Views from WTM on World Responsible Tourism Day 2011
Anne van der Tuuk of Abang Africa Travel, was interviewed about responsible tourism and Cape Town at World Travel Market 2011 on World Responsible Tourism Day, 9 November.
Energy Efficiency marketplace to help local companies
Cape Town’s Energy Efficiency Forum is putting on an energy efficiency marketplace on Thursday 10 November 2011 to help owners and managers of commercial and public buildings – including hotels and guesthouses, meeting venues, restaurants and others in the tourism and hospitality sector – learn about and see for themselves various products, technologies and services [...]
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