Scores of travel professionals are expected to turn out next month at a series of National Workshops in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban, interacting with the General Managers of Protea Hotels and African Pride Hotels to strengthen relationships and make new connections. 

In January this year TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards 2012 were announced and, besides Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Cape Town clinching second place in the “Trendiest Hotels in Africa” category, five other Protea Hospitality Group (PHG) hotels also made the top 20 list.

The Protea Hospitality Group has started a roll-out across South Africa of a purified water system that will replace bottled mineral water in their conferencing venues and ultimately save millions of plastic bottles from ending up in landfills.