1. Cape Town
South Africa
February 2013

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Welcome to Cape Town

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Cape Town is a top tourism destination
and receives over 1.25 million
international visitors and 1.75 million
domestic visitors a year.

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• Top City in Africa and the Middle East, Travel + Leisure World’s Best
Awards 2012
• Fourth Top City in the World, Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards 2012
• Twenty Third Top Destination in the World, Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice
Awards 2012
• Eight Top Beach Destinations in Africa, Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice
Awards 2012
• Best Beach Destination in Africa, World Travel Awards 2012
• Favourite City World Wide, Telegraph Travel Awards 2012
• One of the World’s Ten Most Loved Cities 2012, CNNgo
• Number Two City in the World, Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice
Awards 2012
• Top City in Africa, Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards 2012
2012 Accolades

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Searching for Sugar Man
2013 Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature
Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for
best international documentary at the Sundance
Film Festival; Audience Award at the Los
Angeles Film Festival; Audience Award at the
Durban International Film Festival; Audience
Award at the Melbourne Film Festival; second-
place in the Winner Audience Award at the
Tribeca Film Festival; Grand Jury Prize at the
Moscow International Film Festival.
2012 Accolades

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Searching for Sugar Man
This film, focused on the rediscovery of elusive musician Rodriguez, showcases some of
Cape Town’s most spectacular scenery, including a stunning view along Chapman’s Peak
Drive between Noordhoek and Hout Bay, a striking sight of the city centre and Cape Town
Stadium from the Cape Sun Hotel, and a glorious sunset vision of Table Mountain from
Blaauwberg.
2012 Accolades

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1. Affordable Luxury
2. Design and Culture
3. Responsible Tourism
4. Gourmet
5. Shopping
6. Nightlife
7. Golf Experiences
Key reasons to sell
Cape Town holidays

9. Top 5
Experiences

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1. The Test Kitchen
2. Twelve Apostles Spa
3. Franschhoek Champagne
Festival
4. Luxury Sunset Cruise
5. Vintage Car Hire
Affordable Luxury

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1. World Design Capital 2014
2. Design Indaba Expo
3. Green Point Urban Park
4. The Fringe
5. Edutourism
Design and Culture

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1. Voluntourism
2. Masiphumelele Township Tour
3. Kirstenbosch Botanical
Gardens
4. Walking Tour of Cape Town
5. Washing of the Penguins
Responsible Tourism

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1. Moyo, V&A Waterfront
2. Harbour House, Kalk Bay
3. La Colombe, Constantia
4. The Roundhouse, Camps Bay
5. The Foodbarn, Noordhoek
Gourmet

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1. V&A Waterfront, international
high-end retail
2. Bree Street, local designer
fashion
3. Church Street, antique market
4. Montabello design studio, local
arts and crafts
5. Shimansky, diamond jewelry
Shopping

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1. Bascule, whisky, wine and
cocktail bar
2. Artscape and Baxter theatre
3. &Union, artisan beer and live
local artists
4. Richards Supper Stage and
Bistro
5. Swingers Jazz Club
Nightlife

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1. Steenburg golf and wine tasting
2. Atlantic Beach golf in a
protected nature reserve
3. Metropolitan golf and a sunset
cruise at the V&A Waterfront
Golf Experiences

17. Cape Town’s
Top Events

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J&B Met
January, jbmet.co.za
Design Indaba
February, designindaba.com
Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour
March, cycletour.co.za
Absa Cape Epic
March, cape-epic.com
Cape Town Carnival
March, capetowncarnival.com
Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon
March, twooceansmarathon.org.za
Cape Town International Jazz Festival
April, capetownjazzfest.com
Cape Town Fashion Week
July, capetownfashionweek.co.za
Switching on of the Lights
November, capetown.gov.za

19. Transport,
Security & Safety

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• Road infrastructure is excellent.
• The MyCiTi bus, a public bus service operates across the main areas of the
city.
• A train service operates across the main areas of the city; however, this is
predominantly focused on commuter transport.
• Metered taxis are freely available but ideally you should call ahead to book
and use only registered services.
• Private taxis can be booked through Cape Town Tourism.
• Minibus taxis offer convenient but sometimes hair- raising transport along
major routes. They are frequently available and inexpensive
• All major car-hire companies operate from the airport and have city depots.
Transport

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The safety and security of visitors to Cape Town is vitally important to Cape
Town Tourism, thus we have a number of programmes in place and are in close
contact with all the major safety and security providers across the city.
• Practical safety tips, key security procedures and contact numbers are
available at all Cape Town Tourism Visitor information Centers, on our
website, Visitors Guides and maps.
• Safety numbers should be kept on hand, such as the emergency hotline,
South African Police and National Park emergencies numbers.
• Cape Town Tourism and Protection and Emergency Services run a Visitor
Support Programme to assist you, should you be involved in an incident.
Security and Safety

22. The Cape Town
Toolkit

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Register on www.capetown.travel/toolkit
Cape Town Toolkit

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Editable advertisements, e-postcards, imagery, campaigns, visitors
guides, events calendars, itineraries, maps, story angles and much more.
Access a wealth of information

25. Cape Town
Tourism Services

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• International representatives in the United Kingdom, Netherlands,
United States and Germany.
• An online Toolkit to help the trade sell Cape Town as a destination,
with information such as itineraries, imagery, events calendars and
editable advertisements.
• Regular dedicated trade newsletters with up to date information
about Cape Town and her unexpected experiences.
• Trade hosting support.
Contact Cape Town Tourism at marketing@capetown.travel
Trade Services

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• General travel information and support.
• Reservations for accommodation, car hire, tours and activities.
• South African National Park bookings and Table Mountain National
Park My Green Card and Activity Permits.
• Computicket and webticket sales, for example Robben Island tickets,
Table Mountain Cableway tickets and tickets to events.
Contact Cape Town Tourism at info@capetown.travel
Visitor Services

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How to contact us
Website: www.capetown.travel
Tel: +27 (0)861 322 223
E-mail: info@capetown.travel
Twitter: @CapeTownTourism
Facebook: www.facebook.com/capetown.travel

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