Tourist centre in Africa

Tourist centre in Africa
Tourism officials yesterday set up a gateway information centre in Tsitsikamma to target national and international tourists travelling between the Eastern and Western Cape.
The Inter-Provincial Eastern Gateway Tourism Centre project has been bankrolled by the Western Cape tourism department and is aimed at providing information and encouraging visitors to explore lesser known areas of the two provinces.
Cape Town Routes Unlimited, with tourism departments in both the Western and Eastern Cape, launched the centre at the Tsitsikamma Total Petroport.
Cape Town Routes Unlimited‘s leisure marketing co- ordinator Minette Smit said yesterday‘s launch was the first step in a move discussed at last year‘s tourism indaba in Durban in which coastal provinces agreed to co-ordinate efforts to improve their tourism experience.
The organisation‘s tourism operations manager, Marisa van der Merwe, said the idea was to welcome both national and international tourists to either province as they stopped at the Petroport, situated on the N2 between Plettenberg Bay and Port Elizabeth.
Although the centre was at present housed in a marquee, a log cabin on the site had been approved.
Eden District municipality mayor Rudi Laws said the Southern Cape desperately needed a bumper holiday season to make money available for repairing the massive damage caused by the floods last month.