{"id":4038,"date":"2009-09-13T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2009-09-13T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:02:10","slug":"cape-town-tourism-accredited-after-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-tourism-accredited-after-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Tourism accredited after 5 years!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The strangest tourism news report ever received is that Cape Town Routes Unlimited has accredited Cape Town Tourism as an official tourism association, in accordance with the accreditation powers that Cape Town Routes Unlimited\u00a0holds through the Western Cape Tourism Act of 2004.<\/p>\n

What is bizarre about the report is that the Act was promulgated five years ago, and Cape Town Routes Unlimited\u00a0has been in existence for the same period of time.\u00a0\u00a0 In this period very few tourism associations were accredited by Cape Town Routes Unlimited – Plettenberg Bay, Franschhoek, and Oudtshoorn come to mind as being the few tourism bureaux whose accreditation was publicised.<\/p>\n

Cape Town Tourism is the largest and leading Tourism Bureau in the Western Cape, and one wonders what politics lie behind the accreditation.\u00a0\u00a0 What makes the \u00a0report in bizcommunity.com<\/strong>\u00a0so odd is the following sentence:”Accreditation of these tourism organisations ensures that international operating standards are adhered to”.\u00a0 However, the industry believes Cape Town Tourism to be the more organised and state of the art than Cape Town\u00a0Routes Unlimited!\u00a0\u00a0 The report states that Calvyn Gilfellan, CEO of Cape Town Routes Unlimited, handed over the accreditation certificate to Mariette du Toit-Helmbold, CEO of Cape Town Tourism, at a ceremony attended by the media.<\/p>\n

Oddly, the event seems to be a non-event, as neither Cape Town Tourism nor Cape Town Routes Unlimited have issued a media release about it, nor has Cape Town Tourism informed its members of this event!<\/p>\n

Anyone in tourism will wonder about this event, given that the two bodies are trying to work together in marketing Cape Town, a role that previously was the responsibility of Cape Town Routes Unlimited, but has been handled by Cape Town Tourism for the past year.<\/p>\n

Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The strangest tourism news report ever received is that Cape Town Routes Unlimited has accredited Cape Town Tourism as an official tourism association, in accordance with the accreditation powers that Cape Town Routes Unlimited\u00a0holds through the Western Cape Tourism Act of 2004. What is bizarre about the report is that the Act was promulgated five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2119,602,108,85,32369,340,32390,32376,5,2118,2117,32373],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\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\n\t\t