Southern Africa and the
Indian Ocean Islands
(SAIO) has joined
Destination Golf Travel’s
‘family’ of regions and it
has been an interesting
exercise getting the ‘show
on the road’, in DGT’s
newest territory.
o Southern Africa
Royal Johannesbugh & Kensington
Dermot Synnott and his team, at head office in Ireland,
are marketers at heart and so disinclined to follow the
‘cookie cutter’ approach, which seems to typify so many
businesses today.
This is also a good thing with this guide, because during
our initial strategic planning and in deciding what
structure would work best, I pointed out to Dermot that
the Kruger Park is actually bigger than Wales!
I hope that you may have got some sense of the region,
and its size, in the previously published ‘Snowbirds’
features and now we shall delve into more detail, about
the golf and vacation opportunities that this region has
to offer.
In the first SAIO edition of the guide, we have assembled
a team of partners and venues, which provide an
excellent snapshot of what the region has to offer the
travelling golfer and his or her family.
With this venues’ mix as the base, we shall go further
and will soon be adding several new calls to action, and
promoting existing package options, the details of which
will emerge over the next few months.
These tours have been designed to allow the traveller to
visit multiple regions within one itinerary.
The Royals Tours will take the traveller through Gauteng
(Southern Africa’s economic engine), which is also home
to the iconic and award winning Royal Johannesburg &
Kensington Golf Club.
RJ&K will host the opening and closing legs of this
itinerary over its East and West golf courses, before
the schedule takes in Kwa Zulu Natal (Gauteng’s holiday
playground), Royal Durban Golf Club and the beaches and
warm waters of the Indian Ocean.
The third leg will take in Royal Port Alfred Golf Club
on the Eastern Cape’s Sunshine Coast, before moving
down to the Western Cape and Cape Town to play the
venerable Royal Cape Golf Club.
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