There are so many reasons to feel good about South Africa!
The rainbow nation is truly a hospitable bunch, with diverse cultures and great pride in their country.
The climate is rated as one of the best in the world. Even winter has sunshine!
Few countries in the world have the quality of drinking water from the tap direct!
The wildlife - Unrivalled
One massive country with so many different regions.
A constitution that is held in high regard by world leaders.
Tourism is one of the top performing sectors of the economy, and it is not difficult to see why when you visit!
(courtesy of www.sagoodnews.co.za)
- South Africa has been named as one of the developing world's Ten Best Ethical Travel Destinations in the 2008 Ethical Traveler Report. The US-based organisation, aimed at promoting the idea of travel as a positive force in the world, publishes the list biannually. The organisation's executive director Jeff Greenwald says the list is intended to "help travelers choose to use their tourism dollars to support human rights and the environment."
- Cape Town has become the first city in Africa to feature in the National Geographic Traveler Magazine's Places of a Lifetime website.
- The KwaZulu-Natal North Coast will become home to a US$2.5 billion (R19 billion) tourism development that will create up to 16 000 jobs.
- Mossel Bay's Oystercatcher Trail and the Cape Nature Tierkloof Trail in the Gamkaberg Reserve are among the thirty spectacular walks included in "Unforgettable Walks to Take Before You Die."
- South Africa has ranked second in a list of Top Ten World Travel Destinations by one of the United States' most popular online travel guides. iExplore.com, a guide to adventure and experiential travel, determines the best travel hot spots through vacation purchases made by its online visitors in 2007.
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- South Africa has been voted the best and most interesting African travel destination in an annual Dutch online travel survey.
- South Africa performed strongly in the 2007 World's Best Awards survey by international travel magazine Travel + Leisure, with nine establishments listed among the world's top 100 hotels and Cape Town voted 10th best holiday city in the world.
- Cape Town has been named as the top long-haul destination favoured by UK-based events agencies, according to the latest M&IT Trends and Spends Survey of delegates and organizers.
- The locals have long known it, and now UK visitors agree: South Africa is the most beautiful country on earth. In the 2006 Reader's Travel Awards by UK magazine Condé Nast Traveller, South Africa's scenery scored 97.8% - the highest in the world - with the country being voted the world's fifth-best tourist destination.
- South Africa is home to the world's largest individually timed cycle race (the Cape Argus Cycle Race), the world's largest open water swim (the Midmar Mile) and the world's largest ultra-marathon (the Comrades Marathon).
- Johannesburg ranks 2nd among countries from Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa in dealing with urbanisation and environmental challenges, in the MasterCard Insights Report on Urbanisation and Environmental Challenges
- 21 South African beaches were awarded Blue Flags, an international indicator of high environmental standards for recreational beaches in 2007.
- Cape Town has the fifth-best blue sky in the world according to the UK's National Physical Laboratory
- Pretoria has the second largest number of embassies in the world after Washington, D.C.
- In 1991, South Africa became the first country in the world to provide full protection status for the Great White shark within its jurisidictional waters. Countries including USA, Australia, Malta and Namibia followed suit later.
- The number of tourists visiting South Africa has grown by 116% since 1994
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