No one is screaming louder right now than a group of cruise passengers, who staged a hunger strike after their Antarctica itinerary was cut short and they were given a decent refund.
The man and his wife were reportedly ambushed by three suspects on Thursday, with the ordeal leaving him robbed and stabbed in the face.
The incident has cast a dark shadow over the popular tourist destination, sparking urgent questions about safety standards and the dangers lurking in counterfeit drinks.
Locals say they are not opposed to the tourists, but rather the massive buses. “Sometimes they come in three or four or five at a time. It’s really chaos.”
The man was arrested Wednesday, following a rather audacious move during a late-night ride from Cape Town to Simon’s Town.
Protests fill the streets, and graffiti warns tourists to “Go home.” Local communities are shrinking as short-term rentals surge, driving up prices and pushing residents out. Is 2024 the year that tourism turned nasty?
The passengers are reported to have been tourists on holiday in Sicily, and it is feared that those missing may have been trapped inside their cabins.
With the opening line, “I wouldn’t come here to be honest”, the advert is hardly traditional, but seems to have hit the right notes with travellers.
Data from Flight Centre reveals South Africa’s Mother City is the highest-rated city to visit, with a satisfaction rating of 98% among its UK travellers.
According to the federal authorities, the explosion is not indicative of volcanic activity and was not triggered by magma rising to the surface.
Pffft. Have they seen our crime stats? Terrorists should be warned against coming to South Africa.
Residents of the Canary Islands are at their wits end with tourists flocking in for holidays while they can’t afford to live in their own homes.
They claim they are on the little-known island without money and vital medications after the vessel left port without them.
Locals all over TikTok have been begging digital nomads to leave, pitching all the bad things about the Mother City in a bid to dissuade them from staying.
In a December to remember, Cape Town International Airport’s international terminal witnessed a travel frenzy, hosting a whopping 317,000 globetrotters.
The siege on foreign visitors trying to navigate Cape Town is getting ridiculous now.
While his children are also dangerously close to the ledge, one of them asks the heartbreaking question that viewers have too: “What if you fall off, Daddy?”
Whatever he was paid, it looks to have been kind of worth it.
Currently there are just over 21,000 Airbnbs in Cape Town.
Sancho’s family on Sunday released a statement asking for ‘maximum respect for Daniel in these delicate moments of maximum confusion’. Funny way to describe your son being busted for dismembering his lover.
Residents of this picturesque little town complain about the Brits going on 48-hour benders, fighting and passing out in the street, and even using locals’ gardens as toilets.
Cape Town is finally back to its buzzing, bustling self after the tourism sector was knocked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photographer Agi Orfanos managed to capture the scene on camera, showing a tourist getting the fright of his life when a baboon began helping himself to the contents of his car.
The disappearance of a loved one must be the worst experience of anyone’s life, so if you are reading this, spread the word and help get these people back to their families.
A tourist’s lovely walk through the colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap turned into a traumatic experience when a robber came up from behind to steal her phone.
Travellers may have returned to trotting the globe post-pandemic, but they might give it a break, or step on a plane more lightly after watching “The Inconvenient Truth for tourism”.
The search is still on for Nick Frischke, despite three Hout Bay robbery suspects admitting to robbing him around the time he disappeared.
A word of advice for if you ever find yourself visiting the ancient Mayan Temple of Kukulcán at the Chichén Itzá archaeological site in Yucatán, Mexico.
With the COVID-19-induced restrictions a thing of the past, Cape Town’s tourism industry has a familiar foe to battle – crime.
An Italian mayor has banned tourists from traipsing through the streets and along the beaches in revealing swimming costumes.