August is Women’s Month in South Africa, a time to celebrate and acknowledge the very many incredible women in our lives and communities. At Thompsons Travel, we are so grateful to be surrounded by diverse women of all cultures and creeds, whether as team members, partners, clients, or fellow businesswomen. We sat down with...
Why Business Travel should be Planned out Properly
Free up your Business Resources As one of the most significant spending areas for many businesses, business travel is a vital aspect that needs to be carefully managed with policy and structure. Partnering with a top travel management company frees up business resources and time, while delivering the travel function effectively, safely and to...
Loud & Clear: What your travellers need to hear
Corporate travel has always embraced innovative methods and tech to effectively communicate with its business travellers. Now with more people choosing remote work, it is even more urgent to communicate with our travellers. Are we providing them with what they need to know? Are our business travellers warned efficiently about covid travel changes? Are...
Travel Update: Seychelles Exempts Fully Immunised Visitors from PCR Tests [15 Mar 2022]
Effective March 15, 2022, visitors over 18 years, having received the first two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine including a booster dose after 6 six months since completing the primary series; will be considered fully immunised. Fully immunisation for visitors aged 12 to 18 years, necessitate the completion of only two vaccine doses. All...
Travel Update: South Africa’s Status Moves from Orange to Green for France [09 Mar 2022]
South Africa’s status relating to COVID danger from visitors entering the country has been moved from orange to green. This means fully vaccinated South Africans may travel to France without a test and unvaccinated South Africans can enter with a negative PCR test result done in the 72 hours prior to departure, or a...
Our Outlook for Business Travel in 2022
As we move into 2022, we asked the Thompsons Travel Management Team for their insights into travel this year, plus some helpful tips and advice. What is your outlook for business travel 2022? Sharon: The outlook remains positive, but the recovery remains highly dependent on vaccine roll out border restrictions and a normalization of...
Why Hire a Travel Management Partner
Are you spending hours looking for flights and booking accommodation for your company’s business travellers? Does organising transport or managing travel claims leave you feeling frustrated? If the stress of business travel planning is getting in the way of the regular demands of your job, you need a travel management partner. Whether it is...
7 Smart Ways Tech is Making Solo Travel Safer
Whether stealing a moment between meetings or taking advantage of a few bleisure days at the end of your work trip, business travel often equals solo travel. And if you have ever found yourself nervously wandering around a new destination alone, the good news is that smart technology is making solo travel safer. Here’s how: Stay up-to-date with our Travel...
Celebrating Leadership, Empowerment and Kindness During Women’s Month
As we celebrate Women’s Month across South Africa, we are tremendously proud to acknowledge our incredible all-female leadership team at Thompsons Travel and have done a round table to get their input on what inspires them as women leaders, what motivates them to give of their best, and why they are passionate about being in South...
Alert Level 1: International Travel Opens 1 October 2020
With President Ramaphosa’s announcement this week that South Africa will be moving to Alert Level 1, comes the update that our borders will be reopening to international travel at the beginning of October. International travel includes both business and leisure travel, with some restrictions applied: Travellers will only be able to use one of the land border posts that...