Media Release. 11 March 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism [caption id="attachment_2119" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Women Run Tourism in Mossel Bay  "][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2120" align="alignleft" width="126" caption="Francina Terblanche"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2121" align="alignleft" width="113" caption="Marina Vermeulen"][/caption] IMAGE: Back row from left: Carmen Bester (Point Village Hotel); Yolandi Lombard (Garden Route Casino Hotel & Spa); Liz Taylor (Point Hotel); Marcia Holm (Mossel Bay Tourism); Dawn Prinsloo (Riviera ...read more

Media Release. 4 March 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Image: This leopard triggered a camera trap in the Gamkaberg. Photo courtesy of the Cape Leopard Trust Leopard Group Includes Mossel Bay Property in its Studies The Cape Leopard Trust has installed a camera trap on Mossel Bay’s Bonniedale Holiday Farm as part of its work to track and study the Province’s most important predator species. “We’ve been running surveys in the Gamkaberg and the Swartberg since October 2007, and in the Cedarberg since 2004,” said the Trust’s founder, Quinton Martins. “Throughout the mountain ...read more

Media Release. 25 February 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism. See below for videos. Proud Mossel Bay Proud of Young Surfing Star Shaun Joubert Eighteen year old Shaun Joubert - a Mossel Bay resident and rising star on the international Pro Junior Surfing Tour - is in Hawaii right now, riding epic waves with a bunch of other youngsters from around the world under the direction of Billabong Australia’s international marketing manager (and the company’s international junior team manger), Sasha Stocker. “He’s working towards getting into the WQS (World Qualifying Series) and, eventually, into the WCT (Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour),” said his mother, ...read more

Media Release. 25 February 2010 Mossel Bay Tourism Launches Campaign to Attract Membership From Business Community Mossel Bay Tourism has launched a campaign to attract membership from the town’s business community. “The 2010 FIFA World Cup perfectly demonstrates how tourism affects every sector of the economy, because while the driver of the event is football, its engine is tourism - or the movement and hosting of people into and around the country,” said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Chief Operations Officer, Marcia Holm. “It’s therefore as a direct result of tourism that the Government has built and upgraded so many stadiums and so much infrastructure over ...read more

Persverklaring. 25 Februarie 2010. Mosselbaai Toerisme Mosselbaai Toerisme het ‘n veldtog geloods om nuwe lede van uit die dorp se sake-sektor te werf. Marcia Holm, die Uitvoerende Hoof van Mosselbaai Toerisme, sê die 2010 FIFA Wereld-Beker Toernooi toon duidelik die verwantskap wat daar bestaan tussen toerisme en feitlik alle ander sektore van die ekonomie. In hierdie geval is sokker die dryfveer maar dit is toerisme se taak om te verseker dat die aanhangers die wedstryde op die regte tyd en plek sal kan bywoon. ”Dit is dus indirek aan Toerisme te danke dat die Regering gedurende die laaste ses jaar etlike nuwe sportstadions ...read more

Media Release. 23 February 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Mossel Bay Keeps Rates Low During World Cup Mossel Bay’s accommodation providers and tourism product owners are planning to attract both South Africans and foreign visitors this winter by charging their normal low season rates during the course of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. “As a result of the media focus on accommodation and transport prices and possible price gouging during the World Cup, we asked our members to mail us their World Cup period rates - and none of those who responded will be charging anything more than they would during the rest of ...read more

Media Release. 18 February 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Image: Bob Skinstad - here in ‘jail’ to raise funds for his bobsforgood foundation - will be in Mossel Bay on the 24th of February to donate more than 500 pairs of shoes to scholars at two local schools, and to address the Sakemanne Gholf Dag at the Mossel Bay Golf Course. Photograph: Shari Lee Thompson Mossel Bay Schools to Benefit from Bob Skinstad’s Walk This Way Tour of the Western Cape Former Springbok captain, flanker and eighth man, Bob ...read more

Media Release. Immediate. 3 February 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Mossel Bay Open For South Africans During World Cup With all the hype about the hundreds of thousands of foreign soccer fans who are expected to stream into South Africa for the FIFA World Cup in June and July - what are South African holidaymakers going to do this winter? Especially since many of the country’s hotels and lodges are expecting to be fully booked, prices are skyrocketing in many destinations, and local schools will be enjoying a six-week-long mid-year break? “They should come and visit us,” said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm. “Mossel ...read more

Media Release. Immediate. 3 February 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism New Hotel For Mossel Bay Mossel Bay’s newest hotel - The Point Village Hotel - has opened for business in the historic heart of the Southern Cape’s quaint harbour town. “The Point Village has been a favourite family holiday destination for generations, and this hotel aims to continue that tradition,” said the owner and developer of the property, Albert Wiffen. “The atmosphere is ‘chic yesterday blended with modern today,’ and we’ve gone for a philosophy of ‘never judge a room by its price’,” he said. The recently completed hotel, which is situated on the ...read more

Media Release. Immediate. 27 January 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Mossel Bay Property One of World’s ‘Ten Most Eccentric Places To Stay’ Mossel Bay’s Santos Express, which offers accommodation aboard a train parked permanently alongside the town’s popular and historic Santos Beach, has been named the second of the world’s ‘Ten Most Eccentric Places To Stay.’ The list was complied by Hostels Club(www.hostelsclub.com), which is based in Venice, Italy, and which, “provides travelers with the ability to browse and make reservations at thousands of our partner hostels and hotels worldwide.” The site receives a million unique visitors every ...read more