Recently opened Harbour Bridge Hotel & Suites has been awarded 4 stars. Boasting frontage on the new Roggebaai Canal, within walking distance of the Cape Town International Convention Center and on the fringe of the V&A Waterfront, the hotel offers 40 quality rooms and 17 luxury suites, all decorated with quality modern furnishings focused on clean lines and calming colours.

There is a stylish restaurant offering simple and uncomplicated dishes, a roof top pool & sundeck, a business centre that includes business services as well as high speed wireless internet connection, a boardroom for up to 20 delegates as well as ample secure onsite undercover parking.

Luxury amenities combined with state-of-the-art meeting facilities make Harbour Bridge Hotel and Suites the hottest new property on the business and conference circuit.

Rocktail Beach Camp has completed a series of expansions and enhancements. Situated in the Maputaland Coastal Forest in northern KwaZulu-Natal, it borders the Maputaland Marine Reserve, a sanctuary for marine life and provides extraordinary diving and snorkeling encounters as well as remote unspoilt beaches.

The camp now consists of nine standard rooms and eight suites including one new honeymoon suite. Following the growing success of Rocktail Beach Camp as a leading family holiday destination, an additional four family suites have been built, all nestled into the dune forest, bringing the total number of family rooms to seven.

There is also a brand new children’s playroom adjacent to the pool area, where the Rocktail children’s programme takes place.

Other additions include a curio shop and a newly extended veranda next to the bar. This leads to a raised deck with views over the forest and the Indian Ocean.

A self-guided walking trail has been created, which winds its way up to the top of a dune just south of the camp, offering guests great opportunities to explore the coastal forest.

One of the oldest working wine farms in South Africa, Blaauwklippen Wine Estate recently invited some of our staff members on a site inspection. The historic estate has been transformed into one of the most progressive in the Cape winelands.

The estate comprises of original buildings that have been lovingly restored, a carriage museum which houses a collection of antique carriages, a wine centre and an attractive hospitality centre. Staff were taken on a tour of the wine estate and its facilities including a cellar tour, an opportunity to experience a formal wine tasting followed by a delicious lunch.

Inspired by its proud heritage and romantic past, the estate offers a mixture of modern and traditional Cape cuisine in its Barouche Restaurant, carriage rides through the vineyards, cellar tours and wine tasting as well as facilities for conferences, weddings and private parties.

One for the ladies and the environment! Introducing the Green Cab - an eco friendly women owned and operated business that provides a transport solution to the pollution challenges in South Africa.

The Green Cab will significantly bolster any events’ public green profile and will provide operators with an ideal tool to reduce and certify the transport component of their event or tour as carbon-neutral.

A "Green Transport Certificate" is issued with The SA Carbon Standard to clients and/or groups which certifies that their visit has been carbon-neutral from a transport perspective.

River Crossing, a new luxury lodge, is set to open in October 2009. Located in the mountains just outside Windhoek on the road to Hosea Kutako International Airport, the lodge will consist of 20 private chalets, with magnificent views of the Auas Mountains, exquisite cuisine and a full range of spa treatments and facilities to revitalise and soothe.

The German architecture will rediscover the nuances of a bygone era of farm life with high pitched corrugated roofs and wide balconies and will offer the discerning traveler all the modern amenities and the unparalleled service and hospitality that ensure a satisfying stay.

As national football teams around the world battle through qualifying games to make it to the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Cape Town is gearing up to host the tournament's final draw event.

Cape Town's International Convention Centre will be cast into the limelight on 4 December this year, when Fifa will announce the grouping and match order for the world's top 32 teams to contest Africa's first World Cup.

The much-anticipated final draw is expected to be broadcast live in almost 200 countries and attended by over 2 000 VIP guests and around 800 media representatives.
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