Designa VIP Appointments Cape Town

1. Partner Presentation
November 2012

2. World Design Capital 2014 Opportunity:
Repositioning Cape Town
FROM TO
 The Past  The Future
 Scenery  Creativity
 Indulgence  Inspiration
 Wine & Dine  Business & Investment
 Leisure &Reflection  World Design Capital
 Table Mountain  Silicon Valley of Africa

3. Ambition
Market leader with a fresh, creative and
responsible approach to high end tourism

4. Mission
A high end tour operator and visitor
consultation service in Cape Town

5. Challenge
3 hours 3 days or 3 weeks?
business and
Primed to meet the needs of government
leaders
visitors whose time is at a high group tour
premium convenors
sports people
event
organisers
Celebrities
Artists
Dignitaries
Academics
entrepreneurs

6. Heart And Mind Partnership
Gill “Can Shahid
Do” Solomon
Schroeder
Urban
African
tour diva strategist
and
futurist
Our network of DEVA Consuls

7. Gill Schroeder
 One of the first successful black woman tour
operators in Cape Town, ten years in business
 Experienced in day tours, VIPs, special events,
conferences and African tour packages
 Tour Diva: mentors upcoming tour guides

8. Shahid Solomon
 City Planning & Economic Development executive for
City of Cape Town 1993- 2004
 Mega projects
 Local alternative tourism company in 2005
 Consults nationally on 21st century foresight
 Outbound and inbound business and official missions

9. Uniqueness
Love of Mastery of
 people  Strategic Business
 Cape Town  Visitor Service
 Tourism  Destination

10. Best in the World
 Personal Chaperoning & Touring
 Itinerary Design
 Intelligence & Research
 Government & Business Delegation Support

11. As Good as Cape Town can be:
 Investment Facilitation
 Business Investment
 Social Investment
 Conference and Event
Support

12. Can Do Excellence:
 Video and film
 Helicopters
 Charters
 Bookings
 Business-to-business matchmaking
 Foreign language guides and translators
 Events and Meetings
 Social Networking

13. EXPERIENCE DESIGN
 Six DEVA Experience Lenses
 multiple focus points
 narrowing down choices and making decisions.
 Each Experience Lens includes
 a prepared Briefing
 a Proto Itinerary
 preselected DEVA Consuls: local experts & icons

14. LENSES ON CAPE TOWN
Aerial City Lens
Who better to escort you on an aerial tour of Cape Town than a
seasoned city planner who will explain how the city developed,
where it is going and what its challenges are
 It might just be possible to do this, have lunch in Franschoek
and experience Africa’s Big Five in the same day.

15. LENSES ON CAPE TOWN
People History and Culture Lens
 Afrika Cape Town Music Cape Town (Jazz, Hip
 Colonial Cape Town Hop, Classical)
 Creole Cape Town Sacred Cape Town
 At Home in Cape Town Citizen Cape Town
 Pink Cape Town Walkabout Central Cape Town
 Prehistory Cape Town Ghostly Cape Town
 Struggle Cape Town Gospel Cape Town

16. LENSES ON CAPE TOWN
Business, Professional and Creative
 Business & Investment Cape Town
 Cape Town Film Capital
 Art and Collectables Cape Town
 Cape Town Destination Management
 The Fringe: Cape Town’s Design and Innovation Park
 Medical Cape Town
 Academic Cape Town
 Birding Cape

17. LENSES ON CAPE TOWN
Environment and Development Lens:
 Sustainable Cape Town
 Biodiverse Cape Town
 Future Cape Town
 City Design and Planning Cape Town
 Third World Cape Town

18. LENSES ON CAPE TOWN
Relaxation Fun and Adventure Lens:
Cape Town by Night* Golf Cape* Lazy Summer Cape Town *
Teen Cape Town * Scenic Cape Town * Shopping Cape Town
* Surf & Skate Cape Town * Cape Town Safari * Underwater
Cape Town * Body, Mind and Spirit of Cape Town * Wine
Cape * Cheese Cape * Culinary Cape Town* High Adventure
Cape Town * Hikers Cape Town * Kiddies Cape Town

19. LENSES ON CAPE TOWN
Cape Town Design Capital
Our Signature Lens curates the City’s diverse innovations
Cape Town’s culturally diverse population…gives the city its rich
creolised character. The City’s food, music, dance and language reflect
this rich variety – as does Cape Town’s wealth of good designers and
designs” Lorelle Bell in Creative Cape Town Annual 2010.
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20. World Design Capital 2014
Project
 Project to enhance the scope and
depth of
 the content of the tour script for
World Design Capital 2014
 Tour Guide capability.
 Our itineraries and scripts will be
shared with a cadre of emerging tour
guides.
 Itineraries will be collated and
published for broad usage

21. Responsible Tourism
Authentic Black Economic and
Female Empowerment
Promoting
Sustainable
Development to Skills Transfer
Powerful
Audiences
Attracting Much Needed
Investment

22. African Summer Teasers
 Designa Cape Town Pearl : Four days of the best of the
Jewel in Africa’s Crown P.O.A of crafted itinerary
 Designa Cape Town Palette: Six days of rich connection
with the world’s finest city P.O.A of crafted itinerary
 Designa Portrait of South African Contrast: Ten Days :
cosmopolitan Cape Town and the Kruger wilderness P.O.A
of crafted itinerary
 Designa Rims of the Indian Ocean: Cape Town, Antanarivo
and Port Louis: creole skies of ocean, spice and sun P.O.A of
crafted itinerary

23. How can assist?
Client Chaperoning Itinerary Intelligence Total Support
High End Hotels In Source Appointments Business & Overflow
Professional
Tour Operators Exclusive Local Insight & Leisure, Out Source
Appointments Business &
Professional
Conference & Support Programme Leisure, Out Source
Event Extension Business &
Organisers Professional
VIP Hosts Out Source Local Insight & Leisure Business Contract In
Appointments & Professional
High End Contract In Comprehensive Leisure, Contract In
Travellers Business &
Professional

24. More About
www.designavip.african-gillcando.co.za
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