South African Tourism’s popular training programme ‘Learn South Africa’ is back with its class room style training. The sixth module of the training kick started on July 13, 2015 in Goa and travels to 14 other cities until August 4, 2015. Learn South Africa training programme was launched in 2010 with the objective to further intensify knowledge about South Africa as a destination, amongst the frontline staff of travel agencies. With an aim to train 1600 Indian trade partners, Learn South Africa VI will cover the following cities– Goa, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Delhi, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Trichy, Bangalore, Cochin and Nagpur.
Commenting on the upcoming module of Learn South Africa, Hanneli Slabber, country manager, South African Tourism said, “Based on our research, we noticed that behaviour of Indian traveller is changing, they look for more experience based and memorable holidays than simple itineraries. Keeping in mind the recent change, South African Tourism is investing a lot of time in educating the trade partners on how they can maximise from the offerings available. We have received encouraging response for Learn SA each year which shows that it is a perfect platform to enhance trade partners’ knowledge on South Africa.”
The participating suppliers for this year are; Abercrombie and Kent; Tsogo Sun Extraordinary; Private Safari; Emirates; TravCare; Accor Hotels; South African Airways; and SST.