{"id":587,"date":"2008-11-27T00:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2008-11-27T00:08:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T22:08:26","slug":"match-patch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/accommodation\/match-patch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"MATCH Patch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MATCH and S A Tourism met last week, in a meeting moderated by Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, to patch up the relationship between the two bodies, reports TravelHub<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Earlier this month S A Tourism resigned its MATCH Board position, saying that it did not support the “bullying” by MATCH of the accommodation industry in respect of its pricing and contract terms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both parties reached a “common understanding”, S A Tourism CEO Mosola said. ” S A Tourism will continue to work with MATCH based on fair pricing and terms in an effort to make the 2010 Soccer World Cup a success.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In the meeting fair accommodation pricing and terms, a transparent tour operator programme, and the implementation of a tourism advisory forum were discussed.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Van Schalkwyk said: “The tourism industry has a very good working relationship with FIFA and MATCH.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>We remain committed as partners to assist MATCH in achieving their target and we will continue to encourage players in the industry to sign up their facilities.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Our working relationship is one of mutual respect and partnership and I would like to encourage all role players to ensure that nothing detracts from this.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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No details have been released to the industry as to the specifics of the discussions between MATCH and S A Tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MATCH and S A Tourism met last week, in a meeting moderated by Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, to patch up the relationship between the two bodies, reports TravelHub. \u00a0 Earlier this month S A Tourism resigned its MATCH Board position, saying that it did not support the “bullying” by MATCH […]<\/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":[7,22,11],"tags":[32367,534,23,533,100,32368],"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