E-Tourism East Africa was our biggest event yet- with our Nairobi venue sold out for both our tourism and technology conference and training seminars. Over two days, a capacity crowd of over 280 delegates from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Seychelles were educated and entertained by 27 presentations from international and local online tourism experts and 110 tourism professionals and students took part in an intensive 3 day series of seminars…...Read more

E-Tourism Southern Africa concluded last week- and was a tremendous success with more than 250 delegates attending the conference and training seminars, including delegates from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho. The programme included more than 27 speakers and presentations, including eight international speakers, many of who were presenting in Africa for the first time. Global internet innovators such as EyeforTravel, Microsoft, Google, Expedia, Trip Advisor, WAYN.com and many more created an engaging and entertaining programme that opened the world of online tourism to the region. There's still time to sign up for our East African event in Nairobi... Read More

Register now for the E-Tourism Southern Africa Conference and you’ll receive over $100 worth of online tourism resources for you and your business- absolutely free! We are pleased to announce that all registered delegates will receive free of charge $50 of Google Adwords credit to use to promote your business using Google’ s search engine marketing tools- which you can start using immediately after the event. You’ll also receive a free copy of the new book “e-Marketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing”, by Rob Stokes the head of Quirk e-Marketing. That’s over $100 worth of online marketing resources FREE when you register for this event. Read More...

E-Tourism Africa officially launched on July 1st in Johannesburg, announcing the 2008-2009 programme of events and conferences. The Southern African conference and training seminars (Sept 1st-5th) will play a key role in preparing the region to be smarter and more effective in the promotion and management of the  FIFA 2010 World Cup. Lindiwe Mahlangu, the CEO of Johannesburg Tourism Company, said “We want to show the world that Johannesburg will be ICT prepared for the World Cup.  We want to be seen as a world class city not only in terms of our infrastructure but also in terms of how tourists and business travelers can book and use the internet for all their Southern African travel”.    Read More...

From June 3-6th 2008 the Tourism Trust Fund of the European Union hosted a series of E-Tourism Seminars for the Kenya Tourism Sector, which were facilitated by E-Tourism Africa. There were 116 registered delegates from the local travel trade, the Ministry of Tourism and local tourism organizations in a series of seminars that produced lively debate and discussion. The seminars were facilitated by  Peter Varlow and Damian Cook, who combined international and local experience to create a highly practical programme. Issues discussed included online sales and marketing, travel distribution, Destination management and in a special day long session, how technology can help manage information in a crisis period...read more

E-Tourism Africa, a new initiative to develop online travel sales, distribution and marketing across Africa, will be previewed at a Seminar at the Online Travel Distribution Summit in London on the 21st of May 2008.

The new project aims to address the disparity between online tourism sales for African destinations and the rest of the world. With the web now the world’s most popular resource for researching and booking travel, Africa’s share of the online market is disproportionately small.

E-Tourism Africa Managing Director Damian Cook explains “Across Africa, lack of access to technology, prohibitive banking laws that block e-commerce and poorly trained human resources have blocked the progress of the same revolution that has swept the global ...read more...