Travel Buddy - Tourism support network
Travelbuddy.co.za has extended this true South African welcome to its visitors with an effective network which ensures that each holiday is trouble-free and more than just a memorable time away.
"Dear Andre Snyman
I am Ron and Anne’s daughter and I would like to thank you as well as Louise and Dionne of the Guest House Belvedere for taking such great care of my parents after their trauma of the smash and grab. If it was not for all of your efforts and understanding of the situation then I do think my parents would never travel back to South Africa which is a shame as it is such a lovely place.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you.
Kind regards
Karen Hogg"
Have you hugged a tourist today?
Linking each tourist to a powerful national network during their stay, including the hospitality and tourism industries and the South African Police Services, eblockwatch's Travel Buddy embodies a spirited community attitude towards tourist's peace of mind.
Travelbuddy.co.za's strategy has always been about an effective, affordable and community-coordinated response to the needs of a tourist.
At the simple push of a button, a prospective tourist could mobilize the collective clout of the South African community to track and trace them to within a few metres of where they are.
Combining the skills and energy of each community, Travel Buddy provides a hotline for tourists for when it really counts.
Travel Buddy supplies tourists with:
- A dedicated Travel Buddy button on their cellphone (note - South African Vodacom cell phone numbers only)
- A direct link to a national network of tourist support
- A trip whereby each tourist's route throughout South Africa can be monitored - friends and family back home can check on our map for your location
- Links to over 60 000 eblockwatch members willing to assists anywhere, anytime
Contact Andre Snyman on 082 561 1065 for further details
Meet our Travel Buddy ambassadors from Cape Town Tourism:
Bronwen d'Oliveira
I love creative and interesting people & experiences and have always been a traveler that seeks out fun and relaxing places. So, after graduating from the University of Cape Town with a Business Science Honours degree, Bronwen headed overseas to indulge her passion for travel for just over eight years. It was during this time on a small island in the Caribbean that Bronwen first became involved in travel & tourism as a career. She started by assisting local tourism businesses to market themselves via the internet, particularly to the American traveler.
This sparked a love for eTourism and Bronwen soon returned to Cape Town to implement an electronic marketing, information management and booking system for the 72 official tourism organizations and over 7,500 tourism businesses across Cape Town & the Western Cape. In July 2005, Bronwen choose to focus her energies in Cape Town specifically and joined Cape Town Tourism as the membership manager. “After traveling across the world, I choose to live, work and play in the most beautiful City - Cape Town” |
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Map showing our registered Travel Buddies
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Register for your Travel Buddy button and access our map of Travel Buddies all over South Africa |
 Please help South Africa become the friendliest country in the world.
Become a Travel Buddy and volunteer your support if a tourist near you needs good South African hospitality.
NB: you need to be an eblockwatch member in order to become a Travel Buddy. If you are not an eblockwatch member yet then the registration process will take you through the steps to first become an eblockwatch member.
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Meet our Travel Buddy ambassadors from Western Cape Tourism:
 Itumeleng Pooe
Itumeleng is the Chief Executive Officer of Franschhoek Wine Valley & Tourist Association, a multi sector organization which comprises of 300 members including 42 wineries, accommodation establishments, art galleries, restaurants etc. Her core function is to market Franschhoek as a premier wine tourism destination locally, regionally and internationally, manage brand reputation, profiling the destination image thus enabling individual businesses to flourish.
Itumeleng is a founder member of Travelbuddy
Pat Gee
 I am Project Leader of a team throughout the Western Cape to promote the Tourism Safety and Support Programme.
During the last 3 years we have helped many tourists in distress and have had wonderful feedback from them and all expressing their wishes to return our beautiful country. (and they do.) Our work involves a response capability and undertaking of proactive activities. We concentrate on our links with the role-players like SAPS, EMS, NSRI and our tourism stakeholders examples being Hospitality, Car Hire and the Tourism accommodation networks through the membership base. We organise presentations to the industry and undertake practical workshops to equip the hospitality industry to care for our international tourists.
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