{"id":6075,"date":"2009-12-31T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2010-01-04T01:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:32:39","slug":"cape-town-tourisms-tourism-faux-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-tourisms-tourism-faux-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Tourism’s tourism faux pas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A most bizarre media report was posted by Eye Witness News<\/strong>, in stating that Lianne Burton, the Marketing Manager and media spokesperson of Cape Town Tourism, the city’s tourism body, is happy that Cape Town is seeing fewer tourists this summer season, and that they are going to other more affordable cities such as Durban.<\/p>\n

Burton told Eye Witness News that Cape Town Tourism is “…pleased high-end tourists were choosing to spend their festive season holidays in the Mother City”.\u00a0\u00a0 Burton also said that “the city needs so-called ‘quality tourists’ who spend more cash.”\u00a0\u00a0 The report continues: “Burton said Cape Town Tourism was not distressed thousands of local travellers apparently chose to flock to seemingly more affordable areas in KwaZulu-Natal and other parts of the country, instead of travelling to the Cape.”\u00a0\u00a0 Burton is reported to have said: “We can’t pack people in by the thousands.\u00a0 I think Cape Town and Durban are slightly different, we certainly aren’t aiming for quantity”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

What is interesting is the public reprimand Cape Town Tourism Board member\u00a0Nils Heckscher, GM of the Winchester Mansions Hotel in Sea Point, has given Burton, who said that every prospective tourist is essential.\u00a0 He is reported to have said:”To turn around and say,’We don’t want this tourist or that tourist’ is an arrogance that we can ill-afford”.<\/p>\n

Cape Town Tourism has been appointed by the City of Cape Town to market Cape Town.\u00a0\u00a0 Both Belinda van Niekerk, the acting-CEO of Cape Town Tourism, and Burton, were unavailable for comment this morning, as they have given themselves and most of the Cape Town Tourism staff the day off, according to the switchboard,\u00a0on this\u00a0the busiest tourism day of the whole year!<\/p>\n

See the report at www.eyewitnessnews.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n

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

A most bizarre media report was posted by Eye Witness News, in stating that Lianne Burton, the Marketing Manager and media spokesperson of Cape Town Tourism, the city’s tourism body, is happy that Cape Town is seeing fewer tourists this summer season, and that they are going to other more affordable cities such as Durban. […]<\/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":[3,124,21],"tags":[3188,32366,85,32378,257,332,681,2999,188,44,32373,190],"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