TOURVEST PROFILE:

Tourvest Inbound Operations (TIO)
Tourvest Inbound Operations is the amalgamated business unit of Tourism Investment Holdings Limited, responsible for the development, sales, marketing and operations of foreign tourists in Southern and Eastern Africa. TIO prides itself on maintaining market leadership in all the destinations in which it has a presence. To this end, all products and offerings are constantly re-evaluated and evolved to ensure we remain a step ahead of the other destination management companies. TIO’s philosophy is simple but profound. It is to maintain leadership in inbound tourism through product offering, development and pricing integrity; through service; through partnerships; through innovation, through competitiveness, financial services and technology and through empowerment, employment equity and transformation.

Although TIO is a singular cohesive business unit from a management perspective, a critical part of its philosophy is a multi-brand distribution strategy through divisions and subsidiaries. This ensures that the international trade partners enjoy dedicated service levels, personal relationships and attention to detail one would expect from a smaller business whilst enjoying the benefits of dealing with the largest Inbound company in Africa.

Apart from Sense of Africa in Namibia, TIO operates the following brands in Africa:

Welcome Tourism Services
Welcome is the largest single destination management company within South Africa. Quality and reliability are the hallmarks of any service associated with Welcome Tourism Services and nowhere is this more evident than in Southern Africa where Welcome Tourism Services turns every trip into an experience worth repeating, and specialises in areas highly frequented by the International corporate and leisure traveller

Your Africa
Your Africa is South Africa's leading specialist destination management company, providing personalised, innovative and professional inbound travel services to international tour operators, travel agents and guests worldwide. Your Africa was officially launched in October 2005, after the consolidation of 4 reputable inbound tourism operations, namely Holiday Africa, Wilson Collins Travel, Incentive Touring and Xhoza Nostra, collectively offering over 30 years of tourism experience. Our philosophy is one centred around a intuitive customer based structure, allowing for our packages and services to provide a journey with an “experience” element as opposed to an itinerary based purely on cost.

Your Africa is driven by a team of multi-lingual dedicated staff with most European languages being spoken: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Sunbound Tours
With ten years experience conceptualising and coordinating an awesome variety of unique incentive solutions, special events and international product launch's for our overseas clients - Sunbound Tours and Incentives are well equipped to handle all aspects of your Southern African destination management needs. As a highly regarded incoming tour operator (previously known as Felix Unite Tours and Incentives) we specialize in designing and delivering the best in Tailor-made Tours and Incentives; F.I.T experiences; Group Series Travel and Special Interest Tours

Crown Travel
Crown Travel was established in 1992. The company was one of the pioneers of inbound tourism to South Africa from the Asian and the Far Eastern markets, which have remained the company's core business. The company is one of the leading inbound tour operators in Southern Africa and pride themselves on their reliability, responsiveness and the quality of professional tour services that are offered. They service the land arrangements of on average over a thousand foreign tourists each month, most of whom originate from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

Global Conferences
Global Conferences (Pty) Ltd are a full service Professional Conference Organizing (PCO) and Destination Management Company (DMC), with head office in Cape Town. It has the ability to handle conferences, congresses, symposium and any people related gatherings, from a hundred to thousands, anywhere in Southern Africa. Global Conferences offers more than basic PCO & DMC services, it acts as a business meeting consultant for it's clients, offering strategic input in the planning stages, the most sophisticated conference management software Events Pro & Events. In Namibia Global Conferences has a joint venture with Sense of Africa to exploit conferences to Namibia.

Vintage Africa
Since 1989, Vintage Africa is East Africa’s leading Destination Management Company specializing in luxury FIT and group safaris, senior safaris, ecotourism and specialized adventure travel, incentives and conferences and ultimate parties. They manage some of the most complex programs in East Africa requiring creativity, first-class services, VIP access, security arrangements and great attention to detail.

TIO brands use the latest technology to cater to the needs of the international tourism market. This ensures that they confirm their value within the distribution chain, and make the work they do a value within the chain.