Johannesburg Tourism Company has been busy preparing for the inaugural Sports & Events Tourism Exchange to celebrate its position as the leading business, sports and mega-events destination in Africa. Taking place from July 27th-29th, the event will focus on the world-class facilities and services that South Africa has to offer as a host for all top level international events and the exchange between sports tourism and the events industry.

If You Were Stuck On A Desert Island…Where’s the first place you’d want to be able to fly back to? Ideally, it would be somewhere with luxurious hotels, friendly people, delicious food and superb weather, as well as being fairly close to home. One destination that ticks all of the above is Majorca.

Over a million sporting enthusiasts are expected to descend upon Auckland in New Zealand in September as the destination plays host to the Rugby World Cup 2011, one of the biggest international events in the sporting calendar. Here Breaking Travel News examines the growing role of mega sporting events on the tourism industry.

Visa has launched a new report illustrating the positive impact of mega-sporting events and the influence they have on tourism spending in the event host countries. Among the first organisations to note the increasing important of mega-sporting events to tourism was World Sports Tourism Congress, which will be examining the impact of the phenomenon during the Rugby World Cup later this year.

Global fraud rate down, but online ticketing still seeing challenges. Survey findings released by CyberSource Corporation, a Visa company (NYSE: V) show that while airlines are gaining in their war against fraud, much work remains to be done. Airlines reported a loss of about $1.4 billion USD to online payment fraud in 2010.

Political freedom has cost Tunisia a slice of vital tourism revenue, at least in the short term. Here Breaking Travel News visits to assess just what it will take to get the country back into the plans for European holidaymakers.