Tourism Tattler January 2017 (Paperback). This item is unavailable.Tourism Tattler January 2017 (Paperback)

As our front cover demonstrates, a Big Five safari is all about the sightings and experiences and sharing the thrill of these experiences with friends and family on social media is what travellers do. But internet connectivity at game reserves can be sporadic, if available at all. So how important is WiFi access? Is it a factor when travellers make their destination decisions? Do properties with great connectivity benefit more than those with poor or no connectivity? Our feature on page 08 finds out.

Desmond Langkilde is a publisher, travel writer, photographer and tourism consultant who specialises in Africa as a travel destination. Des has served on the executive board of the Southern Africa Tourism Services Association (SATSA) for a period of 10 years, and as an adjudicator for the annual Lilizela Tourism Awards in South Africa for a period of two years. He is also the regional representative for SafariLink.com - a marketing platform for safari properties in Africa that links their product to members of The Safari Guild for inclusion in safari tour itineraries. He writes on an extensive range of tourism related topics, provides advice and delivers conference speaker presentations on tourism, risk management, corporate barter, marketing and B2B communication strategies to a broad spectrum of tourism stakeholders. Tourism Tattler is the official journal of several Africa in-bound travel trade associations, global travel trade exhibitions, and industry award programmes. Tourism Tattler is published monthly and is circulated free of charge via Newsletter links to international subscribers monthly. Tourism Tattler is a practical source for information on the travel trade in Africa. Information is provided on a wide variety of tourism, hospitality and business related topics, thus providing readers with a better understanding of tourism issues, legislation and legal issues that impact on tourism and explanations of marketing and business principles that may help readers to become knowledgeable providers of services to tourists who visit the African continent.