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Visit Rwanda reports 21% surge in visitor numbers<br />
The number of UK visitors to Rwanda has grown by 21%, according to the African country’s official<br />
promotion brand Visit Rwanda. Its full-year 2017 figures show 16,000 business and leisure travellers<br />
from the UK, a fifth more than in 2016. Visit Rwanda says travellers are making their way to the<br />
country for wildlife, new premium lodges and its scenery. Visit Rwanda, which became the official<br />
tourism partner of Arsenal Football Club last week, has been focusing on promoting the new ‘tourism<br />
circuit’ including all three of the east<br />
African country’s national parks at<br />
Akagera, Nyungwe and Volcanoes,<br />
as well as Lake Kivu and the capital<br />
Kigali. RwandAir launched services<br />
from London Gatwick to Kigali on<br />
board new Airbus A330 last year.<br />
Entrance Fee<br />
Required<br />
Paarl Museum<br />
The museum is situated on what was originally<br />
a farm, granted to Pieter Janz van Marseveen by<br />
Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel in 1699. Later<br />
the property was purchased as a site for the building<br />
of a parsonage for the Dutch Reformed Church of<br />
Drakenstein. Eleven ministers of the Thatched Roof<br />
Church (Strooidakkerk) resided in this building circa<br />
1715 and 1872. In 1872 the property was sold to<br />
Michiel Christiaan Vos Thom whose wagon building<br />
business was situated in the backyard of the previous<br />
parsonage. The property remained in the Thom<br />
family’s possession until 1924. During the late 1920’s<br />
Gymnasium Secondary School used this building as<br />
a boys’ hostel, until Paarl’s Town Council purchased<br />
it. In 1939 the building was renovated and opened<br />
as the Huguenot Museum and in 1940 it was officially<br />
proclaimed. The name was changed to the Old<br />
Parsonage Museum in 1969 and on the 1st of March<br />
1995, it was renamed as Paarl Museum.<br />
Paarl Museum has many historical and cultural<br />
exhibits depicting the history of the Paarl Valley in<br />
the Western Cape. Displays span early local history<br />
through to contemporary Paarl. A large part of the<br />
museum collection is made up of Cape Antiques and<br />
artefacts that portray the rich, cultural diversity and<br />
development of Paarl.<br />
Tel: 021 872 2651<br />
Email:<br />
paarlmuseum@telkomsa.net<br />
303 Main Street<br />
Paarl<br />
Hours:<br />
Weekdays: 09:00- 16:00<br />
Saturday: 09:00- 13:00<br />
Public Holiday: 09:00-14:00<br />
Source: Travelweekly.co.uk<br />
Global<br />
Airbnb revolutionises tourism<br />
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, contributing more than <strong>10</strong> percent of the world’s gross<br />
domestic product (GDP) in 2016. In South Africa, the sector contributed 2.9 percent to the GDP in 2016,<br />
according to the latest report from Stats SA, the Tourism Satellite Account for South Africa report released in<br />
2018. Part of the growth of this industry can be attributed to home-sharing company Airbnb, which some believe<br />
has revolutionised the industry — changing the way people travel and experience travel destinations. Airbnb<br />
boasts over 4-million listed properties in<br />
over 65,000 cities across the world. Airbnb’s<br />
largest markets in Africa are South Africa,<br />
Morocco and Kenya. According to its recent<br />
Healthy Travel and Healthy Destinations<br />
report, Airbnb has not only opened up<br />
accommodation options, it has helped fight<br />
tourism overcrowding and changed the<br />
economics of tourism to benefit locals.<br />
Source: Zongile Nhlapo at HuffPost<br />
Sojern Data Shows Latest Travel Trends in New Global<br />
Travel Insights Report<br />
Sojern, travel’s marketing demand engine, has published its latest Global Travel Insights report, which offers a<br />
quarterly look at travel trends from around the world. Sojern’s data science team analyses 8 billion travel intent<br />
signals annually to help 93 percent of the Fortune 500 travel brands better understand the booking behavior of<br />
travelers and how to reach them with marketing messages.<br />
“Sojern’s data shows that the 2018 World Cup is a primary travel driver across Europe, the Middle East and<br />
Africa for the summer,” said Stephen Taylor, senior vice president at Sojern. “Looking at travelers’ paths to<br />
purchase, mid-east and African tourists are opting to either return to their families following the end of Ramadan<br />
on 15th June, or they are immediately beginning to travel for the World Cup.”<br />
Source: PRNewswire / Benzinga.com
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