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JULY 18 Join family members of former South African President Nelson Mandela to celebrate his 81st birthday...
...miles away in Africa, retired industrialist Noel de Villiers is aiming to set up a contiguous chain of cross-border ecotourism parks and nature reserves linking protected areas from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope. Known as the Open Africa Initiative and endorsed by former South African President Nelson Mandela, the project hopes to bring local communities directly into the global tourist market, but it's still largely a dream. The goal is for tourism income from the parks to be plowed back into community development. "What we're saying is that it's about time that Africa turned...
Since the dramatic changes of the 1990s that brought South Africa out of political and economic isolation, the country has succeeded in putting itself on the international travel-and-tourism map. After Nelson Mandela's election in 1994, the number of regional and overseas holiday visitors increased 50%, to more than 5 million a year. Tourism and related industries, which contributed an estimated $11 billion to the country's gross domestic product last year, expect to quadruple that figure in the next decade...
...visited by more than half of all foreign vacationers. Over the past two years, 30 new hotels have opened, doubling capacity. The city holds one of the most potent symbols of the new--and old--South Africa: a 30-minute cruise away from its Waterfront lies Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years of imprisonment. It is now a museum and national monument. In the nearby hinterland, the Mediterranean-style wine lands provide travelers with more evidence of change: a growing number of wineries are run by workers descended from former slaves. Such black entrepreneurship...
Although the two clothing companies will definitely be open before the return of Harvard students in the fall, Finagle-a-Bagel, which will be located at the other end of the Read Block on JFK Street will likely not open until late September or early October, according to Nelson Goddard of Cambridge Savings Bank...