{"id":12598,"date":"2013-07-24T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12598"},"modified":"2013-07-24T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:53:44","slug":"jonty-rhodes-to-woo-travellers-from-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/jonty-rhodes-to-woo-travellers-from-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonty Rhodes to woo travellers from Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former cricketer and surfer <strong>Jonty Rhodes<\/strong> will be part of South African Tourism, aimed specifically at travellers from God\u2019s Own Country. Beginning next January, Jonty Rhodes, will introduce travellers from Kerala to adventure, wildlife, food and nightlife in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Hanneli Slabber, country head, South African Tourism, said that more than <strong>50%<\/strong> of the tourists reaching South Africa were from the South India.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The market has responded very well, and we are hopeful that the travel agents from <strong>Trivandrum<\/strong> and <strong>Kochi<\/strong> will come up with tailor-made packages for the tourists,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearn South Africa\u201d for frontline staff of travel agencies was organised in Trivandrum. The next session was held in Kochi. The two are among the tier-II cities among the 15 selected in the country. The interactive session was aimed to intensify destination awareness and understanding among the travel trade.<\/p>\n<p>The South African cricket icon, who has been made a brand ambassador of South African Tourism, will be part of the global campaign that will be launched in August to increase tourist arrivals. Recently Jonty Rhodes was in Kovalam to inaugurate the first<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/indias-1st-surfing-and-sup-competition-at-kovalam\/\" target=\"_blank\"> National Surfing and Stand-up Paddle (SUP)<\/a> <\/strong>competition in India. At present, 43-year-old crickter is the fielding coach of the IPL team Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former cricketer and surfer Jonty Rhodes will be part of South African Tourism, aimed specifically at travellers from God\u2019s Own Country. Beginning next January, Jonty Rhodes, will introduce travellers from Kerala to adventure, wildlife, food and nightlife in South Africa. Hanneli Slabber, country head, South African Tourism, said that more than 50% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[464,452],"class_list":["post-12598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-ernakulam","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}