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Boardwalk Port Elizabeth / Diriye Amey /<br />
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PE’s Boardwalk Hotel<br />
wins second prestigious<br />
Lilizela Tourism Award<br />
Sun International’s five-star Boardwalk<br />
Hotel, situated near the Blue Flagawarded<br />
Hobie Beach in Port Elizabeth,<br />
has won its second prestigious Lilizela<br />
Tourism Award for excellence in the<br />
five-star meetings, exhibitions and<br />
special events category in this year’s<br />
Lilizela Tourism Awards programme. The<br />
Boardwalk’s Operations Manager, Peter<br />
Tshidi, received the award at the<br />
Eastern Cape provincial awards ceremony in East London recently. Last year<br />
The Boardwalk Hotel won a Lilizela Tourism Award for excellence in the fivestar<br />
accommodation category. The Boardwalk is not only popular for its 5-star<br />
hotel, but also offers a unique entertainment, dining and conference venue. In<br />
addition it is the only licensed casino in Port Elizabeth, and is near both the city<br />
centre and all the most popular city beaches.<br />
Source: Sun International & eProperty News<br />
Joburg ranked top African city destination<br />
Johannesburg, South Africa’s City of Gold, has again been ranked the most popular<br />
destination city in Africa for<br />
the fourth year, according<br />
to the 2016 Mastercard<br />
Global Destinations Cities<br />
Index. Cairo in Egypt at the<br />
other end of the continent,<br />
was ranked second.<br />
Johannesburg is expected to<br />
draw 3.6-million international<br />
overnight visitors in 2016, a<br />
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6.2 per cent increase on last<br />
year’s 3.39-million visitors, says Mark Elliott, Division President South Africa<br />
for Mastercard. Cairo came in at 1.5-million international overnight visitors<br />
followed by Cape Town at 1.4-million visitors, Casablanca in Morocco with<br />
1-million visitors, and Durban with 831,000 visitors. The Mastercard Index not<br />
only provides a ranking of the 132 most visited cities around the world, but also<br />
projects estimates for visitor volume and spend for the 2016 calendar year,<br />
enabling a better understanding of how people travel and spend around the<br />
world. Johannesburg also came out tops in Africa in terms of international<br />
visitor spend, with travellers expected to spend US$1.73-billion in 2016, most<br />
of it coming from visitors from London, followed by visitors from Paris, Harare,<br />
Frankfurt and Maputo.<br />
Source: Mastercard / CNBC Africa<br />
Explore Nelson Mandela Bay with a Pass Card<br />
Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism now offer an innovative Pass Card with which<br />
to explore the city and surrounding areas for free or at much reduced prices.<br />
Nelson Mandela Bay - including Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Despatch and<br />
Colchester - has over 40km of golden coastline, several Blue Flag beaches<br />
and no fewer than 5 biomes. The pass card includes entry to museums, game<br />
reserves, scuba diving, art galleries, sightseeing tours and much more. It<br />
also entitles the cardholder to some great discounts for shopping, activities,<br />
entertainment and more. Choose between the 5-in-1 Pass or the Unlimited<br />
Access Pass, to be loaded onto a smartcard. Among the fun activities you can<br />
enjoy with the Nelson Mandela Bay Pass are a free Zip Line Tour on Africa’s<br />
longest double zip line with Adrenalin Addo in the Sundays River Valley; the<br />
Ama ‘TUK-TUK Beacons of Hope’ Tour on board a zippy 3-wheel, open Tuk-Tuk<br />
that takes you to Cape Recife Lighthouse, the Donkin Lighthouse and Pyramid,<br />
and the Donkin Heritage Route; a Beach Horse Riding Tour at Sardinia Bay; the<br />
Addo Elephant National Park; a boat cruise up the Sunday’s River and sandboarding<br />
at the famous Alexandria Coastal Dune area; and visiting Route 67, an<br />
art tribute to Nelson Mandela.<br />
www.nelsonmandelabaypass.co.za<br />
Swaziland hosts popular TV team to showcase<br />
its tourism<br />
The Swaziland Tourism Authority<br />
recently hosted members of South<br />
Africa’s popular TV show, Top<br />
Billing, together with Olympic Silver<br />
Medalist Luvo Manyonga for a few<br />
days of exploration, adventure and<br />
fun in the beautiful Kingdom of PhotoRoman / Shutterstock.com<br />
Swaziland. The fun-filled tour was organised by Lloyd Orr Communications, the<br />
Swaziland Tourism Authority representatives in South Africa and was aired on<br />
the Top Billing Show on Thursday 17 November. Swaziland Tourism Authority<br />
says their country may be the smallest in the Southern Hemisphere “but it<br />
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