Tourvest Destination Management

Tourvest Destination Management (TDM) is a division of Tourvest holding Pty Ltd, which through it's diversified portfolio of tourism businesses is the dominant tourism group of sub-Saharan Africa.

With more than 30 years of inbound tourism experience, TDM is a vertically integrated business, following a strategy of centralized product, support and financial services.

A new division within TDM is the Business & Sports Events (B.A.S.E) divisnion, merged in 2011. This business unit houses Tourvest companies specialising in sports tourims, conferences, incentives and events. Our international distribution is achieved through a multi-brand strategy, ensuring both a higher market penetration in key source markets as well as market segment specialisation in others. TDM brands are responsible for the development, sales, marketing and operations of inbound tourism products and services to foreign travellers via our international wholesale distribution channel.

In line with our continuous endeavours in improving TDM to the benefit of our suppliers and customers, we continue to align our brands to achieve even greater customer foucs and improved competitiveness. This process has evolved, leading to the following overall brand structure:

Welcome Tourism Services is the largest destination management company within South Africa. Quality and reliability are the hallmarks of any service associated with Welcome and nowhere is this more evident than in Southern Africa where every trip is turned into an experience worth repeating.

Your Africa amalgamated Crown Travel into their operation during September 2009, thereby growing their customer base into south east Asia and Japan. The company is headed up by Merle Kwan, Operations Director and Monika Iuel, Sales & Marketing Director. Your Africa is very excited about the opportunities this strategic move brings, both in terms of the growth of the brand as well as in terms of new colleagues and customers. 

T.E.A.M. (Tourvest Event Activation Management) provides a one-stop service benchmarked to international standards - professionalism that was clearly recognised when they were awarded the contracts to manage hospitality programmes for seven of the seventeen FIFA partners, sponsors and national supporters of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™.

Focus Tours has earned respect for service-excellence, consistency and integrity within the Italian market. Driven by a young and dynamic team, each aims at achieving the common mission of creating unforgettable travels to Southern Africa. The varied experience of the team members allows for specialization in incentives, special interest travel, tailor-made FIT Itineraries as well as scheduled tours. 

SST caters for all FIT & Group travel requirements to South Africa. The forte of the company is to tailor make itineraries/packages most suitable for clients, their budgets (3* to luxury), special interests, duration requirements, honeymoons and incentives. With the 10 years experience in the Indian market, our destination specialists will provide a service to the traveller that will ensure a holiday with great memories.

Vintage Africa, situated in East Africa, specializes in luxury FIT and group safaris, senior safaris, ecotourism, specialized adventure travel, incentives and conferences. They manage some of the most complex programs in East Africa requiring creativity, service, VIP access and security arrangements, providing great attention to detail.

Event Dynamics 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. Event Dynamics acts as a business meeting consultant for its clients, offering strategic input in the planning stages, the most sophisticated conference management software Events Pro & Events.