Durban will host to a number of matches at this summer’s World Cup, including one semi-final. BTN looks at the city’s sport tourism credentials, including the attractions and opportunties for business and leisure travellers alike.

Twelve hundred of Africa’s key players will attend the most important event of the year for the travel industry on 7 July in Johannesburg, South Africa. The prestigious World Travel Awards will take place a 5pm with the World Cup Semi Final shown on a giant screen after the ceremony.

In the first of a series looking at the host cities of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, BTN looks at Pretoria’s sport tourism credentials, including the attractions and opportunties for business and leisure travellers alike.

South Africa’s football stadia are expected to be 95 per cent full for the matches at this summer’s World Cup, according to the organisers. Jerome Valcke, Fifa’s general secretary, said the association was predicting up to 360,000 foreign visitors.

Over 18,000 port and rail workers in South Africa have walked out on strike, exactly one month before the FIFA World Cup is due to begin in the country. The disruption follows earlier revelations from FIFA it was forced to inject $100 million of emergency funding into World Cup preparations to ensure deadlines were met.