Nils Heckscher, MD of the Winchester Mansions Hotel, \u00a0appears to have little to do in his day job, volunteering his services on many industry Boards.\u00a0\u00a0 He is currently serving as past-Chairman on the FEDHASA Cape Board,\u00a0is a Director of \u00a0Street Smart, and is Chairman of the Tourism Marketing Levy of South Africa (TOMSA).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was a Director of Cape Town Routes Unlimited, but resigned earlier this year when the politics got to him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One could say that Heckscher is an “association-junkie”.\u00a0 Perhaps it is time that he allowed some new and younger blood to serve on industry bodies.<\/p>\n
Heckscher’s latest target is Cape Town Tourism, probably because of its new Marketing role and R 24 million budget, having been nominated for one of the two Director slots available.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He is up against tough competition, with eight other nominees, including Mbulelo Kwali, Chairman of the Black Management Forum; Sabine Lehmann, CEO of the Table Mountain\u00a0Aerial Cableway Company; Colin Nyoni, Owner of Nyoni’s Kraal; Jennifer Seif, Executive Director of Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa; and Arno Vorster, previous Chairman of Cape Town Tourism, and an Internal Auditor at the City of Cape Town, the provider of the new Marketing Budget.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The election takes place at the Cape Town Tourism AGM on 16 October.<\/p>\n
Phillip Couvaras, GM of the Table Bay Hotel and Chairman of FEDHASA Cape, has been appointed to the Board of Cape Town Routes Unlimited, according to the latest FEDHASA Cape newsletter, but surprisingly his appointment has not been publicly announced by new Western Cape Province MEC for Finance, Economic Development & Tourism Garth Strachan, nor by Cape Town Routes Unlimited (CTRU).\u00a0 \u00a0In fact, the CTRU website still lists the Board which was in place until June, most of which directors, including Heckscher, no longer serve on the Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nils Heckscher, MD of the Winchester Mansions Hotel, \u00a0appears to have little to do in his day job, volunteering his services on many industry Boards.\u00a0\u00a0 He is currently serving as past-Chairman on the FEDHASA Cape Board,\u00a0is a Director of \u00a0Street Smart, and is Chairman of the Tourism Marketing Levy of South Africa (TOMSA).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[195,192,108,85,196,193,24,199,198,44,194,46,197,191,111,107,189,190],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t