Inspired by Make Travel Fair’s 10 #whltravel Tweeps Twittering, which was in turn inspired by the 10 #Travel Tweeps Twittering post published on Matador’s Travelers Notebook, in March 2010 we published 10 More #whltravel Tweeps Tweeting, all from the WHL Group. Given the interest in this, we decided to share yet another 10 #whltravel tweeps tweeting.
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WHL Consulting Launches Tourism Development Bank as Solution to Finance Obstacles Faced by Small Businesses
Despite its successes, WHL Consulting believes that it will not be possible to continue its mission as a sustainable development organisation without addressing the key business constraint of access to finance by small businesses. So they came up with their own innovative financing tool: the Tourism Development Bank.
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Croatia / Indonesia / Mexico / South Africa / Venezuela / WHL Group newsletter / animal conservation / game reserves / lakes / marine conservation / national parks / responsible travel / top five / waterfalls / world heritage
Top Five Favourite National Parks for Nature Appreciation
Every year, curious travellers journey throughout the globe to escape into the untouched wild. The goal: to witness incredible plant and animal life without human interference. The WHL Group presents here five of its favourite national parks, the kinds of places where nature comes first.
Read More >>The Backdoor – Make Travel Fair’s Travel Writer Competition
Most of us readily to acknowledge – sometimes perhaps a little too quietly – the impact we make on host destinations when we travel. The most conscientious of us do our best to minimise our impact or make it a positive one, but there’s no question that, by traveling, we are part of something that creates change….
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Lesotho / Namibia / South Africa / Swaziland / Uganda / WHL Group newsletter / adventure travel / animal conservation / ecotours / food & drink / human interests / local knowledge / responsible travel / responsible travel news / top five / women
Top Five Picks for Community-Based Tourism Accommodation in Sub-equatorial Africa
Nothing beats the experience of staying with locals and supporting their local communities. The WHL Group puts forward here five of its favourite community-based accommodation initiatives in Africa.
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Africa / Kenya / Morocco / South Africa / Swaziland / Uganda / adventure travel / animal conservation / deserts / festivals & events / forests & jungles / game reserves / human interests / outdoors / responsible travel / responsible travel news
Dodging the Football Frenzy and Tackling Alternative Sporting Events in Africa
You’d have to be holed up in Ted Kaczynski’s cabin not to know that South Africa will be hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup next month. The Beautiful Game has a special place in all Africans’ hearts and is far and away the most popular sport played on the continent. But with football mania reaching fever pitch, it’s high time we had a look at some of the other sporting events on offer in Africa.
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Africa / Lesotho / South Africa / Southern Africa / adventure travel / mountains / national parks / outdoors / responsible travel
The Rugged Sani Pass to Lesotho Is Set to Lose Its Edge
Named after the San people who once lived in the area, the Sani Pass, one of Southern Africa’s most spectacular scenic and rugged byways, is today the only road link between the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the rugged, landlocked kingdom of Lesotho. And now it is slated to become a tarred transport route.
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Africa / Botswana / Egypt / Kenya / Malawi / Namibia / South Africa / Sudan / Tanzania / WHL Group newsletter / Zambia / Zimbabwe / adventure travel / human interests / personal experience / responsible travel / traveller tale
The Tour d’Afrique – A Trans-African Adventure on Two Wheels
The Tour d’Afrique is an annual transcontinental bicycling odyssey that starts at the pyramids near Cairo, Egypt, in January, and then traverses 10 countries and every kind of road surface imaginable before spinning into Cape Town, South Africa, some four months and 11,800 kilometres later. It attracts nomadic souls and cycling enthusiasts of all ages and abilities, from triathletes to retirees.
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South Africa / Southern Africa / WHL Group news / human interests / outdoors / partnerships / responsible travel / responsible travel news
WHL Consulting and 360 Cities Collaborate on Bringing Panoramic Photography to Project:Exposure
The effect is stunning. For armchair explorers it’s about as close to a live visual experience of a place as one can get. Immersive spherical panoramic photography, sometimes called VR (virtual reality) photography, practically puts the viewer in the place of the photographer, the latter having taken multiple digital photos of a place, covering it…
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Africa / South Africa / Southern Africa / local knowledge / responsible travel / responsible travel news
Finding Local Travel Opportunity in South Africa around the World Cup
The clock’s ticking. Every hour we move closer to 4pm South Africa time on 11 June 2010, when the World Cup 2010 kicks off in Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium. The anticipation is palpable, but so is the growing frustration and sometimes anger about the absurd room rates and out-of-focus travel opportunities in a country driven…
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