South African Tourism’s inaugural Mega Lekker Escape has handled 90 Australian and New Zealand journey brokers, client and commerce media with unbelievable familiarisation journeys and a two-day coaching occasion and the Solar Metropolis Resort. 

The 90 visitors have been break up into groups, designated a staff identify, emblazoned on T-shirts, and outfitted with a mission – to seize their South Africa journey most creatively and share with the opposite teams on the coaching occasion as a technique to complement every participant’s first-hand expertise with broader product information. And most significantly, for his or her likelihood to win some wonderful prizes.

Every of the teams centered on a distinct area of South Africa to drive geographic unfold and included not solely the principle vacationer sights, but additionally the nation’s hidden gems – the small, medium and micro enterprise enterprises (SMMEs) and group and conservation experiences.

The fortunate winners of this mission have been the Rhinos, led by Journey Locations, whose video centered on the chance to offer again via tourism.

Their highlights have been participating in rhino notching, a conservation initiative to guard the species, and a tuk-tuk tour via Soweto the place they found their driver himself participated within the Soweto pupil rebellion of 1976. Their successful video was offered, together with all the opposite very worthy entrants, on the coaching occasion’s presentation night hosted by the undisputed Queen of Zulu Comedy, Celeste Ntuli.

The 2-day coaching occasion, comprising 130 delegates with the addition of South African property operators, additionally included a trivia evening, hosted by humorist Bongani Dube, and set in a Boma – a conventional African outside gathering place – which was lit up with lanterns and laughter.

South African Tourism CEO, Nombulelo Guliwe, mentioned, “Up to now we’ve run mega fam journeys in South Africa and coaching roadshows throughout Australia and New Zealand individually, nonetheless there have been so many adjustments to the journey business within the wake of Covid, with as many as 30 oer cent of journey brokers new to the business, we understood it could take a mega enterprise equivalent to this to handle information gaps.”

“Actually, solely two of the journey brokers participating within the Mega Lekker Escape had been to South Africa earlier than, and we all know one of the simplest ways for anybody to really respect how distinctive South Africa is, is to expertise it.

“By means of this initiative, we sought to equip journey brokers with the first-hand expertise of the vacation spot that’s so crucial to constructing the arrogance to promote it, whereas additionally internet hosting media to drive client demand for the merchandise the commerce had expertise.” 

The Mega Lekker Escape’s identify was borne from South African slang that means very good or satisfying.