CT becomes a conference hot spot

RAY SMUTS
COMBINING business and pleasure a decade ago would have been called just that. Now it’s known as business tourism, a sector in which Cape Town and the Western Cape is blossoming with Mother City and province working in concert to attract more than half of Africa’s conference business. It is hard to imagine that a city with the dynamism of Cape Town had to make do with inadequate conference facilities for years before the ultra-modern, multi-million rand, Cape Town International Conference Centre saw the light of day three years ago. To date, the CTICC has already hosted 750 events of which more than 300 were international conferences, including maritime, agriculture, exports/imports, medicine, science and culture.