Media Release. Mossel Bay Tourism. 2 September 2010. [caption id="attachment_3214" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Members of the Dias Festival Joint Organising Committee (JOC) - from left: Dias Museum Complex manager Mbulelo Mrubata, Festival coordinator Juanita Pienaar, and Dias Museum Management Committee chairman, Harold Miller."][/caption] Juanita Pienaar to Coordinate Dias Fest Next year’s Dias Festival, which will be held in Mossel Bay from the 3rd to the 6th of February, will be coordinated by Juanita Pienaar. Ms. Pienaar recently also coordinated the Summer Festival at Santos Beach, and the Kraak-i-Mossel Festival at The Point. “Mossel ...read more

Media Release 27 May 2010: Mossel Bay Tourism Upgraded citi.mobi Site for Mossel Bay “Mossel Bay at your fingertips! Find local restaurants, bars, hotels, attractions, news, weather and more while on the move ...” That’s how City.Mobi introduces its newly upgraded mobile guide to Mossel Bay - http://mosselbay.city.mobi/. City.mobi - which has developed sites for destinations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania - provides anyone travelling with a cell phone with information about where to stay and what to do, and, significantly, allows both locals and visitors to add reviews of listed restaurants, hotels and ...read more

Media Release 30 April 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Mossel Bay Tourism’s Indaba Campaign Looks To The Future With just 40 days to go until the FIFA World Cup kicks off on 11 June, Mossel Bay Tourism has bid farewell to its long-term campaign to attract foreign visitors to the town during the event - and will use this year’s South African Tourism Indaba as a springboard to the future. The Indaba begins in Durban next week, and runs to the 10th of May. “The World Cup is upon us, and any marketing we do now must concentrate on attracting business from visitors who are ...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

Media Release. Immediate. 20 January 2010. Mossel Bay Tourism Mossel Bay’s Marketing Promises Business Out Of The Netherlands With the Continent groaning under the weight of heavy snow falls, it would seem at first glance that Mossel Bay Tourism’s European marketing season couldn’t have kicked off at a worse time - and yet the results of the first consumer show of the year (Vakantiebeurs 2010) indicate that many people are keen to visit South Africa - and Mossel Bay especially - both this year and during 2011. Despite the weather, 117,335 people visited the 1,600 exhibitors from 160 countries who stood up at ...read more

Media Release: Immediate. 13 January 2010 IMAGE: Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk (left) with Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia and Chris Holm at Vakantiebeurs 2010. This picture was shot by Mr. Peter Goosen, the South African Ambassador to the Netherlands. Mossel Bay’s European Marketing Season Begins Mossel Bay Tourism has begun its annual European marketing season by exhibiting at the Vakantiebeurs 2010 in Utrecht, in the Netherlands. The show, the fortieth in the series, is the largest of its kind in the region, and attracts both tourism professionals and the travelling public. It runs this year from the 12th to ...read more

Media Release. Immediate. 10 December 2009. Mossel Bay Tourism Image: Development surfers Zizipho Belu (left), and Chuma Magusha with Waves School of Surfing’s Llewellyn Whittaker Mossel Bay Tourism Sponsors Boards for Development Surfers Mossel Bay Tourism has sponsored the purchase of a number of surf boards to help a local surf school to extend its reach to children who might otherwise not have been able to take part in the sport. “Mossel Bay is very much an outdoors destination - and very much a water sports destination, and we’re as keen to make ...read more

Media Release. Immediate. 9 November 2009. Mossel Bay Tourism Mossel Bay Invites Meetings at Latin America’s Largest Tourism Expo Mossel Bay invita a la exposición de Turismo más grande de América Latina Mossel Bay Tourism will join the South Africa’s Argentinean Embassy in exhibiting at this year’s FIT Latin America 2009 (Feria Internacional de Turismo de America Latina - International Tourism Trade Fair of Latin America) which will take from the 14th to the 17th of November at La Rural, Predio Ferial de Buenos Aires. “I understand that this is the largest tourism show in South America,” said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm, who ...read more