INTERVIEW | tourvest travel services | travel and related services
Tourvest Travel Services
The Tourvest Travel Service (TTS) credo is to be the leading travel management company through our people, innovation, technology, and partnership.
What is your target market, and why should
care solution where we collate and process all
competitors?
dedicated service email link. We pride ourselves
they do business with you instead of your
Our target market is multinational corporates, oil
and gas companies, public sector organisations, and a significant portion of leisure business. We
and the objective of ensuring that TTS is the market
National Empowerment Rating Agency (NERA). In
solution to fit our client’s individual budgets and travel requirements.
What services do you offer?
We offer the full spectrum of essential travel services, enhanced by flexible, tailor-made
menu-based additional travel services, as well as travel management and advisory service options. Tourvest's business interests range from leading inbound tour operators, travel, and financial
services, as well as curio shops, duty-free services, restaurants, and hotels.
Steps to success: A mind set of "I am younger, stronger, faster, and I practise while you sleep." Business philosophy: To be the leading travel management company , through our people, innovation, technology, and partnerships.
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paperless working environment.
What are TTS’s BEE achievements?
leaders in offering a unique, tailor-made travel
Position: Chief Executive Officer of Tourvest Travel Services
on our various technologies delivering a near
strive for excellence in everything we do and all of our endeavours are undertaken with enthusiasm
Name of interviewee: Morne du Preez
the compliments or complaints logged via our
What innovation has TTS brought to market?
Having IT developers in the business gives us an edge and allows us to creatively invent products
that are tailor-made for our industry and specific to our customer’s needs, such as Travelit, an online travel management solution that allows clients to
make their travel arrangements from start to finish. We also offer our client’s peace of mind through
our risk management passenger location system that can locate our travellers anywhere in the world using their booking details. TTS has a
Service Excellence Centre, an interactive customer
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TTS has attained a Level-2 BEE rating as rated by partnership with Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality, and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA), which has seen great success
and boasts an impressive track record in running
learnerships – including rural candidates – we have employed many learners into our business that
have grown from strength to strength. We have a
graduate programme that has resulted in mutually beneficial results in experience being gained and permanent staff being employed.
What social economic development is TTS involved in?
TTS has partnered with small entities to give them business support and training on various aspects,
ranging from business writing to customer service, access to legal advice, business coaching, and
general business ideas and solutions. They have access to our marketing department that will
include design of logos, invoice templates, various
tips, and sundry items which provides them with an edge over their competitors.