Oman Air has appointed Holiday Aviation as general sales agent for South Africa. The deal will ensure easy access for African customers to Oman Air’s award-winning products and services as well as the airline’s highly competitive fares.

With a new tourism strategy being rolled out, new product coming to market, and a renewed government focus on the sector, there is plenty happening in South African tourism. Here Tolene van Der Merwe, hub head for the UK & Ireland for South Africa Tourism, tells Breaking Travel News all about it.

The Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, as the venue continues to grow in significance to tourism in South Africa. The venue has become a central player in the domestic MICE market over the past two decades.

Indaba is one of the largest tourism marketing events on the African calendar and one of the top three must visit events of its kind on the global calendar. It showcases the widest variety of Southern Africa’s best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world. Here Eleanor Hawkins visits for Breaking Travel News.

The Cradle of Humankind is an unassuming rolling vista, just an hour’s drive from both Johannesburg and Petoria. But it’s what has been hidden underneath the 180 square kilometres of scrubland for more than three million years that has recently been grabbing headlines. We find out more as Eleanor Hawkins visits for Breaking Travel News.

South African Tourism is set to launch a revolutionary, world-first product – called Good Times in a Box – to stimulate domestic tourism. The product, introduced at Indaba, aims to make travel more accessible to the potentially lucrative domestic market, which remains relatively untapped.