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