SW Africa has announced that its Nordic & Baltic Roadshow, an event featuring Southern and East Africa travel trade workshops in five cities in the Northern European and Baltic regions, will take place from October 28-November 1.

Henk Graaff, Managing Director SW Africa, said five cities would be covered and all arrangements would be done by the company on behalf of participants.

He said the event would be held after hours, at around 17h30, which would ensure a good turnout. The format of the workshop will be round robin-style meetings in which the participating Southern African tourism companies get to address the visiting buyers in groups of between three and six at their respective tables.

South Africa's leading responsible tourism NGO, Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA), is changing its name to Fair Trade Tourism (FTT) in order to signal the intention of becoming a regional responsible tourism certification programme. In parallel with the re-naming, FTT is also unveiling its new brand which has been updated to represent the contemporary and streamlined approach to responsible tourism certification.

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April, 2013/ -- In today’s competitive global environment, the use of logistics companies to courier items between countries within set time parameters is becoming increasingly necessary. Throughout Africa, the capabilities of logistics companies have also evolved exponentially over the past 20 years and it is today increasingly common to see ‘packages’ such as live animals, specially prepared food or lifesaving medicines being transported across the continent.

I just received this email from  AVAAZ.org's Jeremy Waiser avaaz@avaaz.org

It is so shocking that I thought it is worth posting online.

It's hard to believe, but a 15-year-old rape survivor has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public! Let's put an end to this lunacy by hitting the Maldives government where it hurts: the tourism industry.

The girl's stepfather is accused of raping her for years and murdering the baby she bore. Now the court says she must be flogged for “sex outside marriage” with another man, who has not even been named! President Waheed of the Maldives is already feeling global pressure on this, and we can force him to save this girl and change the law to spare other victims this cruel fate. This is how we can end the War on Women – by standing up every time an outrage like this happens.

We’re lost but we’re making good time.

It’s easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.