Our tradition of leadership

Tourvest Destination Management is a division of Tourvest Holdings Pty Ltd, which through its diversified portfolio of tourism businesses is the dominant tourism group in sub-Saharan Africa.

With more than 30 years of inbound tourism experience, Tourvest Destination Management is a vertically integrated business, following a strategy of centralised product, support and financial services. TDM Tourvest Destination Management provides overall strategic direction and identifies and creates synergies between individual brands as well as within other Tourvest divisions. A new division within TDM is the Business & Sports Events (B.A.S.E.) division, merged in 2011. This business unit houses Tourvest companies specialising in sports tourism, conferences, incentives and events.

In addition to providing centralised administration, human capital management, procurement, financial management and information technology frameworks, Tourvest Destination Management  has developed a unique product range, including scheduled escorted tours and domestic wholesale, pre paid discount voucher system, and Travel Planner documentation. The pre purchased accommodation consolidator, transfers and charters, and the flight ticketing consolidator are consolidated environments that ensure optimised delivery of Tourvest Destination Management controlled products.

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. Tourvest Destination Management’ 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.

Our business success hinges around innovative IT systems, personally selected product, highest quality control standards, a strong focus on responsible tourism and talented and passionate specialist staff. We invite you to experience Tourvest Destination Management in the spirit of partnered integrity that creates mutually beneficial business opportunities.

Our success as a business hinges on our long-standing relationships. Over the years our dedication to synergistic, interdependent and collaborative partnerships has ensured the continued success of Tourvest Destination Management as an intermediary between our customers and our suppliers, by adding value to both parties.
In line with our continuous endeavours in improving Tourvest Destination Management to the benefit of our suppliers and customers, we continue to align our brands to achieve even greater customer focus and improved competitiveness. This process has evolved, leading to the following overall brand structure:

  • Welcome Tourism Services and Your Africa as our primary source market brands.
  • Focus Tours and SST as our two geographic specialist brands, servicing Italy and Spain, and India and the UAE respectively.
  • Sense of Africa as our Namibian destination management brand, offering product and services to inbound travellers into Namibia, irrespective of source market.

  • TDM B.A.S.E (Business and Sport Events) encompasses Event Dynamics, American Express Travel Services South Africa, Meetings and Events, and T.E.A.M (Tourvest Event  Activation Management) specializing in school sports & travel, and big event hospitality management.

Through association with Tourvest Destination Management in the provision of services or products, suppliers become an integral part of our international network and business philosophy. We are passionate about showcasing the regional tourism product offering to our worldwide network of travel partners. Whilst we constantly evaluate and evolve our product offerings and react swiftly to the changing demands of our source markets, we are committed to actively promoting new routings and attractions, in order to grow our destination as a whole.