The Real South Africa

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Its been Indaba Week and with it brings loads of interesting characters and things happening. This week's show we kick off with Indaba, the country's biggest travel show - Africa Indaba. Chatting to us is the CEO of Cemair, Miles van der Molen who shares his journey of running one of SA's top domestic full service airlines, Eben Marais CCO of Nightsbridge again one of SA's premier hospitality booking engines and how they make a small hotelier feel like the Hilton! We also took a moment to chat to Thabang Rapotu of Poised Solutions about what it takes to market hospitality in covid recovering era. And a lovely moment and unexpected one, we chatted to Sulaïman Kagone,, the Director General of the National Tourism Promotion Agency "FasoTourisme.", through an interpreter as he deemed his English wasn't great but what he lacked in pronunciation, he made up for in passion! Thanks to Giselle for her French/English translation and keeping up with him.
Chapters
  • 00:00 Opening Description
  • 05:08 Eben Marais COO of Nightsbridge
  • 29:52 Miles Van der Molen CEO of Cemair
  • 40:00 Thabang Rapotu CEO of Poised Solutions
  • 44:48 Tourism Minister Burkina Faso
  • 01:12:54 Outro
22 May English South Africa Leisure · Society & Culture

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