Mart Cilliers, chief executive of Legend Hospitality Group, and Rina van Staden, marketing and reservations director, Legend Golf & Safari Resort, speak to Breaking Travel News as the property is recognised as the World’s Leading Safari Resort by voters at the World Travel Awards.

The world first Ballet in the Bush event, presented by Dirk Badenhorst, has celebrated its third anniversary at Legend Golf & Safari Resort during a much anticipated performance.

Legend Hospitality Group is one of the many African tourism companies exhibiting at this year’s Tourism Indaba. The group, formerly named Legend Lodges is using the annual tourism event to announce its highly anticipated rebrand to Legend Hospitality Group. The Legend portfolio, world renowned for its diverse luxury destinations, set in various pristine locations in Southern African, originally launched in 2000.

Legend Golf & Safari Resort is about to open its new Signature Clubhouse with a four-day Extreme showcase - and you can join in all the fun on one of four especially themed days. Firstly, Thursday November 27th focuses on golf with a tournament like no other. There will be prizes on every hole on the unique Signature Course including an Audi A1, R100,000, a trip to The Masters in the USA, sexy sunglasses and way, way more.

It is famed for having longest par-three golf hole in the world, its luxurious accommodation, the world’s first baby rhino orphanage and the Big 5 roaming wild and free on its safari conservancy. Visitors – many of them A-list celebrities – come from far and wide to experience Legend Golf & Safari Resort, in the Waterberg area of Limpopo.

As the eyes of the world turn to South Africa for the World Cup, the nation’s most talked about resort, Legend Golf & Safari Resort, is set to be one of the stars of the summer, as well as hosting 8,000 Brazil fans.