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Travel Massive Day Celebrations in Africa

On November 18th Travel Massive members in five African cities met up to mark the first ever Travel Massive Africa Day, celebrating Travel Massive’s first year in Africa. National sponsor Swiss International Airlines offered 2 return flights to Europe for one lucky winner. Travel Massive Africa’s members subsequently set Twitter alight as they furiously tweeted their entries.

ICYMI check out how the first Travel Massive Day went down.

There’s Much More to Joburg and Tshwane

The Travel Massive Joburg party was hosted by The Reef Hotel in the heart of the historic inner-city. The Elevate Bar offered a beautiful view of the sunset while bolts of lightning continued to flash across the skyscrapers.

Speakers for the night included Nomasonto Ndlovu, Strategic Executive Director of Tshwane Tourism, who spoke about the Tshwane Metropolitan, senior manager at Gauteng Tourism, who reinforced a sentiment shared by the entire Joburg Travel Massive. We also had the launch of Head South, a new app created by Nyeleti Mnisi, connecting travellers with local tourism opportunities in South Africa.

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Young and Old in Port Elizabeth

In Port Elizabeth, Africa Day attracted its biggest local Travel Massive turnout at the Mad Hatter in Walmer. The crowd of 40 consisted of both the young and tech savvy and the older non-tweeting types.

Gail Gane, leader of the new East London chapter, valiantly drove the 285km south to Port Elizabeth to join the party and get a taste for what goes into creating a successful Travel Massive event.

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Honest Storytelling on the Durban Coast

Durban’s event was hosted by Suncoast Towers Hotel. Sponsors included Wedgewood Nougat and Uber. Guest speaker for the evening was visual storyteller Dane Forman. Forman had plenty of insights to share on what it means to work in the ‘digital playground’ and why the key to success in online media is sticking to the principle of honest storytelling.

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Sky High in Cape Town

From the prizes, the sponsors to the the picture-perfect V&A Waterfront venue, the in evening Cape Town was all about good times and celebration.Catering was provided by Groot Constantia Wine Estate and The Good Life food truck. The Cape Town chapter also offered 12 lucky winners a sunset helicopter flight over Cape Town courtesy of sponsors NAC Helicopters.

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Travel Massive Launches in Nairobi

Kenya hosted their first ever Travel Massive event which took place at IBM’s innovation space at the iHub. Sponsors for the night included the new online booking portal NeXtGen.travel and Desserts Anyone. The event attracted some 60 guests, keen to utilise the network to promote Kenyan tourism initiatives on a local and international platform.

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And the WINNER is…

The congratulatory tweet was met with the less than elegant reply ‘holy crap! I won!!’ by one very lucky Joburg-based travel writer who goes by the handle @CosThisIsAfrica. Ecstatic and overwhelmed by the outrageously exciting prize that is headed her way, the winner has already dug out her phrasebook, begun trawling the internet for tips on the best fondue restaurants and added Thomas Mann’s epic Magic Mountain to the Christmas holiday reading list.

Travel Massive Day was a concept created by Travel Concept Solution.


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Louise Whitworth (@CosThisIsAfrica) has been writing for In Your Pocket City Guides since 2008. Previously based in Russia, she now writes for Johannesburg In Your Pocket, one of the leading online and print visitor guides to Johannesburg.


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