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Lion’s Head Curses Blogger On Twitter
22 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The iconic Cape mountain top decides to have a Twitter war with an underwhelmed tourist. Check out the fight here…
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Here’s The New MyCiti Bus App (Not Endorsed By MyCiti Or The City Of Cape Town)
24 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
MyCiti is one of the best ways to get around Cape Town, and it just got better! There is now an app for that, and it is a little gem of genius! Just one catch…
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This New South African Tourism Video Might Make You Cry [Video]
27 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Everyone needs a little bit of warm fuzzy national love… yes, even you sharp-minded cynics! We LOVE this clip and you will too….
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Here Are 10 Good Reasons To Move To Cape Town [PHOTOS]
13 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
It’s not really a hard sell, is it? But now that Cape Town has been voted the number one city to visit in 2014 by The New Yorker, we thought we’d press the advantage home with this collection of shots, illustrating why you shouldn’t be living anywhere else in the world.
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Oh Dear: Bloem Hotel Offers “Authentic Shack Experience” [VIDEO]
11 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
We’re not lying. This is an actual ad for a hotel in Bloemfontein: “Now you can experience staying in a Shanty within the safe environment of a private game reserve. This is the only Shanty Town in the world equipped with under-floor heating and wireless internet access!”
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Cape Town Nails Top 3 Spot In Lonely Planet’s 2014 Best Cities Guide
29 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Cape Town has been ranked the third best city to visit in the world in the 2014 Lonely Planet’s 2014 Best In Travel guide, behind Trinidad (Cuba) and Paris (France). Check out Lonely Planet’s opinion of Kaapstad, and the rest of the contenders after the jump
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These Are The Reasons Business Insider Gave People For Visiting SA
23 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
WARNING – Cringe alert. Look, we all know Business Insider is a reputable site full of really cool, useful, relevant information. But when it comes to doing a nifty travel article on South Africa, these guys really know how to apply egg to the face. Did you know, South Africans speak “Cosa”?
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Save Your Cash – Here’s A Drone Tour Of The Palace Of Versailles [VIDEO]
30 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve been to Paris, or are planning to go, Versailles will be on your radar. But the problem with Versailles is that it tends to be rather far away from anywhere you’re likely to be staying. Whether you’ve been, are planning to go, or have elected to give it a miss, we guarantee that you won’t have a view of Versailles like the one on offer in Phoenix’s new drone-shot music video.
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China Is Super Embarrassed By Citizens Travelling Abroad – Passes Law Forcing Them To Be Polite
20 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
China wants their nationals to be more polite when travelling abroad. They are so concerned about their reputation that the Xinhua News Agency ran reports five days in a row, airing videos designed to coach Chinese tourists on how to be more polite abroad. The government is so serious about this that on 1 October a […]
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New York’s Answer To The Pay Phone [GALLERY + VIDEO]
19 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg recently called on creatives to devise a better plan for communication in New York to replace the mangy, disease ridden pay phones currently in operation. The goal of the project was to completely redesign the and rethink the pay phone as a platform for communication, as well as […]
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Vampire Nation Exploits Prince Charles’ Dracula Bloodline For Tourism
06 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Prince Charles is the descendent of Count Dracula – seriously- he even admits it (video inside). And the bloodsucking Romanian National Tourist Office is using the link to sell holiday packages to would-be UK tourists.
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City of Berlin: “No Entry For Hipsters”
18 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Berlin has just shot to the number three most visited tourist destination in Europe, coming in just behind London and Paris. The difference is that London and Paris have been hosting tourists for a good few hundred years. Berlin, on the other had, has only been welcoming guests for the last 20. Ze Germans aren’t too happy about this.
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Hundreds Of Millions Of Rand To Be Poured Into False Bay Coastline, Copacabana Style
11 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
A huge development is on the cards for the stretch of coastline from Cape Point to Gordon’s Bay. It would turn the area into the Copacabana of Cape Town, MEC Alan Winde has said.
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It’s Official: Table Mountain Confirmed As Fifth Of Seven New Wonders Of Nature
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Remember last year when Table Mountain was voted in as one of the seven new “wonders of nature” after an extensive international voting competition run by the Swiss New7Wonders Foundation? Well an international audit has just confirmed the award, making the title official, but what does this mean for Slaapstad and our tourism industry?
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“Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan Salute Borat”
24 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The movie “Borat” didn’t exactly do well in Kazakhstan. After being banned, it took a full six years to realise the touristic potential of the film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. But, the “glorious nation” has now issued an official thank you to Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Japan Will Offer 10 000 Free Visits To Tourists
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 14 Comments
If the thought of waiting until the 2015 Rugby World Cup to visit Japan is less appealing right now, consider going there sooner, and for free, courtesy of the country’s tourism agency. The Japan Tourism Agency has announced it will fund airfares for 10 000 foreign travelers in an attempt to help the country’s plummeting tourism levels recover in the face of nuclear disaster.
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The Taj Mahal Will Cave In Between Two And Five Years
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
India’s most famous tourist attraction, the 358-year-old Taj Mahal, will collapse within five years unless something drastic is done. The wooden foundation is becoming brittle and disintegrating due to a lack of water. This is because the river crucial to its survival is being blighted by pollution, industry and deforestation.
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Holland Becomes A Lot Less Dope For Tourists
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Some people are calling this ‘tourism suicide’. The Dutch government has announced that by the end of the year, the marijuana-selling coffee shops for which the country is famous will be closed to foreigners.
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