Targets 1600 travel agents in 15 cities across India; One lucky travel agent from each city to win a free trip to South Africa
Ludhiana, July 20, 2015: South African Tourism’s popular training programme Learn South Africa is back with its unique class room style training. The sixth module of the training kick started on July 13th in Goa and travels to 14 other cities until 04th August 2015.
Learn South Africa training programme was launched in 2010 with the objective to further intensify knowledge about South Africa as a destination, amongst the frontline staff of travel agencies. With an aim to train 1600 Indian trade partners, Learn South Africa VI will cover the following cities – Goa, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Delhi, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Trichy, Bangalore, Cochin and Nagpur.
This year South Africa Tourism has offered a lucky draw for participants. One lucky travel agent from each city will get a chance to win an all expense paid trip to South Africa.
Commenting on the upcoming module of Learn South Africa, Ms. Hanneli Slabber, Country Manager, South African Tourism said, “Based on our research, we noticed that behaviour of Indian traveler is changing, they look for more experience based and memorable holidays than simple itineraries. Keeping in mind the recent change, South African Tourism is investing a lot of time in educating the trade partners on how they can maximize from the offerings available. We have received encouraging response for Learn SA each year which shows that it is a perfect platform to enhance trade partners’ knowledge on South Africa.”
The participating suppliers for this year are –
1) Abercrombie and Kent
2) Tsogo Sun
3) Extraordinary
4) Private Safari
5) Emirates
6) TravCare
7) Accor Hotels
8) South African Airways
9) SST
Learn SA V in 2014 included training sessions and on ground education in South Africa.
Date:
Monday, July 20, 2015