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SAA Host Clients on a FAM Trip to South Africa

23 Aug, 2013
By Adeola Olanrewaju

Every year South African Airways Nigeria organises a Familiarization trip to South Africa for clients to look at the region and major hotels in a single trip. This enables them to see firsthand exactly what goes on and gives a genuine feeling of the places they can recommend to their customers and themselves.
This time the SAA Nigeria FAM Group took a trip to Johannesburg and Cape Town. Joburg is currently the most visited city in African. Known to be the power house of Africa’s economy, boasting of high figures total number of international visitors of 2,544,013 and generating the sum of $2.7 billion.
Also, we visited Cape Town. A city very popular to tourists which has a relaxed atmosphere and offers visitors a wide range of activities such as water sports, including diving, surfing and sailing, angling, wine-tasting, shopping, scenic drives, mountaineering, hiking, bird and whale-watching and also one of the world's largest dry-docks, ship repairing is an important industry.

Leveraging on what South Africa offers, Sun International one of the leading hotel company in the world hosted the SAA Nigerian FAM group trip to three major prope


rties for site inspection, The Maslow Hotel, Sandton Johannesburg, The Table Bay Hotel and Grand West in Cape Town.

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