Cape Coast Chamber

The UK’s Daily and Sun Telegraph newspapers have released the results of their annual reader travel survey and Cape Town has emerged as their readers’ Favourite World City. Cape Town pipped San Francisco, Sydney and Vancouver for best city, whilst South Africa was in the top four for best destination on earth.

 The survey also revealed some refreshing news about their UK readers’ attitudes to travel. Of the 25 000 readers polled, 92% were adamant that the credit crunch would have no effect on their choice of destination, whilst 96% said they refused to downgrade their accommodation this holiday.

 Reader choices indicate an overall preference for destinations where the pound had strength against the destination currency. 50% of the readers spent more than £ 1000 on their last holiday, with one in six spending £ 2500 -  £ 5000 and one in twenty spending over   £ 5 000.

At the Cape Coast Chamber we have gone through a number of changes recently.

Our website has been revamped and we have relocated to wonderful new offices. We would like to have your input into our vision going forward and would appreciate any feedback, comments and suggestions you may have that we can implement. 

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The City of Cape Town is happy to announce that Mayor Helen Zille has been selected as the world’s number one mayor, from a list of 820 mayors around the world, by global local government think-tank City Mayors.

The competition, the only one of its kind, has run for the past 18 months. It started with a call for nominations by the public, which led to 820 mayors being nominated. A shortlist of 50 was selected from this total, which was later reduced to 11, and then to five.

Cape Town is on a winning spree, raking in top travel accolades.

Not only did Cape Town come in as the Top Africa/Middle East City in the 2008 CONDENAST Readers Choice Poll, but Cape Town came in at 4th place world-wide. Hot on the heels of global cities like Sydney, San Francisco and Florence, Cape Town came in ahead of Bangkok, Rome, Vancouver and New York.

“With less than two years to go to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the eyes of the world are upon us,” says Mariëtte du Toit-Helmbold, CEO of Cape Town Tourism. “We have entered the most opportune time in tourism our country and city has ever seen.”