Mweet Muzi Mohale & retweet to win fab travel prizes.
Represent gets in touch with another inspirational Southern African this week who has followed their dreams and made them a reality… Meet Muzi Mohale, the intrepid travel blogger and tweeter who spends his days sharing useful information on his growing SA travel and tourism blog TravelWires – Muzi is celebrating his blog’s 3rd birthday with a bunch of freaking awesome travel prizes – all you have to do is tweet away… read below and enter fast. Sharpile Muzi for your words and hey… hook us up with the Rastafarian community in Knysna1My name is Muzi Mohale born 35 years ago in Swaziland where I attended both primary and secondary education. A year after my O’ levels in 1994 I relocated to Johannesburg to study Financial Management at Benoni Technical College. Between 2000 to 2002 I was employed by Classic FM and therefore by Moneyweb until I resigned in March this year to nurture my dreams of being a fulltime blogger.
My love for travelling and the internet attracted me to the tourism industry. Since discovering the internet in 2000 I’ve been hooked and have made it a point to learn more about running an online business. Through my work at Moneyweb, where I was involved with updating their in-house websites, I figured out that I could also earn an income from running a website as well. Then in 2003 I created www.accommodate.co.za which was basically a lodging booking portal focused on B&B’s in Soweto.
I started adding industry news on www.accommodate.co.za just to spice up the offering, as displaying only lodging facilities on a website was a stagnant exercise. Updating industry news daily was meant to generate interest with browsers so they could visit the website on a regular basis. Then in 2006, Christine Searle the owner of www.sa-venues.com sponsored the creation of www.travelwires.com a standalone website to exclusively cater for tourism news.
I now blog fulltime, which allows me the opportunity to discover the various tourism routes the country has on offer and to earn a living doing what I love.
I’m more focused on helping small tourism operators on running profitable websites for their operations. A website if used properly can greatly improve the bottom line of your business. Besides helping small tourism operators I also blog about the latest trends within the industry in South Africa.
May I also take this opportunity to invite other young Southern African bloggers to consider blogging about the tourism industry. There are endless opportunities on niche blogs, there is currently no local blog strictly on car rentals/game reserves/airlines/wellness health spas/hotel internet marketing… the scope is huge.
Travelwires.com is turning 3 years on Saturday 11th October 2009 and to celebrate the milestone I’m giving away prizes worth over R33,000 in a twitter contest.
To participate on the twitter contest, two things are required from you…
HOW TO ENTER CONTEST:
1. Register on Travelwires.com daily email alert (if not already registered), for daily updates.
2. Retweet the below message: “Travelwires.com turning 3, I’m entering birthday twitter contest & stand to win 1 of the prizes worth R33, 000 http://bit.ly/JZxB2”
For terms and conditions on the contest please refer to http://www.travelwires.com/wp/2009/09/travelwires-com-celebrates-3-years-with-prizes-worth-r33000/
Hmm, that’s a difficult one, as this depends entirely on the individual’s budget…luckily South Africa caters for budget to luxury travellers. We have backpackers for independent travellers and luxurious game lodges spread throughout the country for travellers with cash. For 10 days, I would recommend spending time in Venda, Soweto, North Coast (St Lucia Wetlands and Hluhluwe Umfolozi Game Reserve), South Coast (go bungee jumping at Oribi Gorge and ocean safari in Margate), Kynsna (visit the rastafari community), Cape Winelands, Robben Island Museum and Mzoli’s in Gugulethu.
