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o All Cullinan Staff Members

I am very pleased to report that 2016 has been a positive year, notwithstanding some challenges

faced by our outbound businesses, as a result of a weaker rand. There has been a significant improvement in our inbound tourism, transportation and Marine businesses in 2016, and I would like to thank all those involved for a fantastic effort in this regard. Overall there have been numerous accomplishments in our performance during 2016, and as a result we have performed well ahead of the

prior year.

I am also pleased to advise that we received some excellent feedback from our mentorship programme this year. The course content has been further developed and fine tuned, with a view on enhancing the skills of our future managers within our Group. A big thank you to Joanne Adolphe, Lynne Phipson and Bonnie Jennings for the great effort and dedication in ensuring the success of this programme in 2016.

We are also pleased with the results received from the anonymous staff surveys in June this year, which saw a significant improvement across the Group. These results indicate that our values are being better lived within our companies in 2016. This has been achieved through the discipline and effort of all our staff and management. Recognition and thanks goes to the staff committees who have played a key role in this achievement, and to all members of staff who have communicated with our staff committee during 2016. A big thank you to all.

Thanking you for a great effort in 2016 and wishing each of you a healthy and successful year.

Kindest regards

Michael Tollman

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Welcome to the Cullinan Holdings August 2016 Newsletter

Mrs Beatrice Tollman, President and Founder of Red Carnation Hotels, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award on 5 July 2016 at The Cateys 2016 award ceremony.

Travel & Leisure 2016 World’s Best Awards

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he Cateys are a byword for quality, class and achievement and the award that everybody wants to

win and the industry refers to them as its ‘Oscars Night’.Mrs Tollman joins previous recipients including Raymond Blanc, Egon Ronay, Anton Mosimann, Albert and Michel Roux, Elena Salvoni and Lord Forte of Ripley. On receiving the award she said: “I am so humbled and honoured to have been recognized for doing something that I love so much”.

r Brett Tollman was the proud recipient of the following awards for three of our brands in New York on 21 July.

Uniworld was voted the No. 1 ‘Best River Cruise Line in the World’. Red Carnation’s Hotel 41 and Ashford Castle were recognised as ‘Best Hotel in London’, ‘Best City Hotel in Europe’ and ‘Best Resort Hotel in the United Kingdom and Ireland’.In additions to these awards Red Carnation had four properties in the top six and amongst the 100 Best Hotels in the World, Red Carnation had five. Lion World were rated one of the ‘Best Safari Outfitters’.

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hompsons Japan celebrates 20 years association with Thompsons Africa. Photographed left is Linda presenting Mr Noguchi and his family a bronze

Rhino and plaque commemorating this milestone. Said Linda: ‘This partnership has been extremely rewarding... and the very special friendships that have be formed over the years.’

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CeLeBRATINg 20 YeARs IN JAPAN


THoMPsoNs AFRICA uNveILs FABuLous NeW BRoCHuRe CoLLeCTIoNThompsons Africa has a history of producing a brochure collection that is better and better, year on year, and just when you wonder if it is at all possible to outshine the last, this year is no exception. Once again, Viki Haasbroek and her team have delivered the most outstanding set of brochures and these can easily be described as the best ever!

“The new Luxury Collection brochure takes on a refreshing format this year, showcasing what Thompsons Africa really does offer and provide when it comes to luxury in South and Southern Africa. The focus is on high-end customers looking for a personalised experience from start to finish” says Janine Southwood, Head of Luxury Collection.

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THoMPsoNs AFRICA PRe-INdABA CoCkTAIL PARTY

20 YeARs seRvICe AWARdsuring 2016 no less than 12 staff members celebrated 20 years of service - and in some cases, more than 20 years. This is a remarkable achievement by each of these individuals. Thompsons Africa is truly proud of this momentous occasion and pays

tribute to each loyal staff member. Congratulations to Wade Bawden, Reuticia Mngadi, Maria Mngadi, Wendy Chemaly, Michelle Lazarus, Linda Pampallis, Eleanor Booysens, Richard Wilkins, Kuben Pillay, Arnaud de Grandpre, Canaan Jele and Alex Maas for your dedication and commitment!

Wade BawdenLinda Pampallis

Eleanor Booysens Richard Wilkins Arnaud de Grandpre Canaan Jele Alex MaasKuben Pillay

Reuticia Mngadi Maria Mngadi Wendy Chemaly Michelle Lazarus

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The social committee has been active with a number of fun events and social responsibilty activities.

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MeSSAge FROM OUR CeO - JOANNe AdOLPHe

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FOOd PARCeLS FOR eMMANUeL HOMeS

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The Johannesburg sales team hand out nutty treats to keep our energy levels up.

The Durbanteam collected goodies for East Coast Radio for a children’s home that burnt down. Lake Haven received the parcels on Nelson Mandela Day.

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016 has been a roller coaster ride with teams working together tirelessly to close sales in light of the weak rand, political insecurity and challenges with the latest

Travel Studio upgrade. The market trend is towards Indian Ocean Islands specifically Zanzibar, Vic Falls and domestic travel. The teams are working hard to ensure we are sourcing and promoting value for money holidays, working on our partner relationships and focusing on offering customer centric service. Our Shine Brighter campaign and various fun dress up days and spoils from suppliers have helped in keeping morale buoyant. Our Social Committee has arranged numerous fun drives to enhance our CSI. eg: Water Drive for Free state, various under privileged homes assisted with warm clothes and food parcels, Cancer ShaveAthon, SPCA food parcels, Slipper Day, Supporting the Blood Bank and Back to School stationery packs. A thank you to all involved as no one can do it alone and everyone’s contribution is valued.

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The Serendipity conference took place at Indaba Hotel over the week end, 29-31 July 2016. SA’s most well-known

the proceedings.

June 16, school dress-up day.

Thompsons staff cleaning up our environment for Earth Day.

Harry celebrates his 60th birthday.

Protea Hotels by Mariott awards Thompsons Holidays for their campaign support.

Staff donate water for drought areas in the Free State to Gift of the Givers.

Protea Hotels sent over a team to brew fresh coffee for

around the country.

A new Employee Value Committee was elected in February with representatives from all departments around the country. The members have been active in reporting suggestions to ensure that our company values are enshrined in our workplace.

Smiles all round from Pentravel staff around the country as they receive their branded T-shirts from our sales team.

AIR MAURITIUS AWARdS

We received the Top Committed Seats Performer award and the Top Marketing Performance Gold Award at the annual Air Mauritius awards ceremony.

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he “Cullinan’s Got Talent” Leadership Development programme runs from June to November, with 21 participants attending the programme nationally, with staff from Grosvenor Tours, Springbok Atlas, Thompsons Holidays,

Thompsons Travel and Thompsons Africa attending. The objective is to practically develop the attributes required to be an effective Leader.

The monthly workshops focus on training in practical understanding of decision making, problem solving and customer service in the travel and tourism industry.

The participants reflect on live business examples as case studies to analyse, discuss and learn from.Modules include:Leading todays workforce and values based leadershipEmotional intelligence and understanding people behaviourFinancial IntelligenceCustomer Focused Leadership strategiesCreative Problem SolvingDecision Making and Critical thinking skills

Joyce Sithebe is one of 16 staff members who received long service awards, ranging from 20 to 30 years, during 2016.

Tevin Campbell causes a stir in the Cape Town office with the KFM team.

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The Financial Intelligence Durban mentorship group holding a “We love David Standage” sign.

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T R A N S P O R T D I V I S I O N


he 2016 financial year started at a hectic pace for the transport division and we are extremely grateful to report that our fleets across all brands are running full steam ahead. The fleet utilization average for the first 6 months of the year is hovering around

the 92% mark and we are hopeful to see a better than normal second half to the year. Our fleet fills us with pride with an average fleet age of 2.8 years in Hylton Ross Tours, 4.7 years in Springbok Atlas and 6.2 years in Ikapa.

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We are very proud to have won a Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence for 2015 and we are hoping to receive one for 2016 soon!

It is a pleasure to acknowledge our long serving staff. We feel privileged to have so many committed and dedicated staff on our teams.

We are delighted to announce that as of the 1st of March after, 12 years in our Cape Town head office, Kevin Smith has been promoted to Johannesburg Branch Manager.While we are sad Kevin will no longer be working with us in

Keith Ryneveld - 39 yearsTitus Miles - 37 yearsAbdul Koopman - 36 yearsCharles van der Vent - 35 yearsMoraswi Chuene - 29 yearsGlynis Maart - 24 yearsSolomonm Nkosi - 23 years

Nkosinathi Mbhele - 23 yearsGoodman Moepi - 21 yearsPetrus Alweendo - 21 yearsArnaud de Grandpre - 21 yearsJulian Swartz - 21 yearsGezani Vutsulu - 20 yearsWilliam Jantjies - 20 years

Congratulations to Jacqui Le Sueur (manager of our Cape Town office) on her engagement to Ryan. Jacqui also headsup our Marketing Dept. She has been with Hylton Ross Touring for 14 years.

Hearty congratulations to Mea and Eon Swart who have welcomed their second baby.

Eon is our National Technical Manager, and Mea is one of our Accountants.

Certificate of Excellence 2015

Hylton Ross Exclusive Touring

our Cape Town office, we will have daily contact with him, and the peace of mind that his competence will mean that our Johannesburg office will be managed professionally.Kevin has shown great dedication to his work and clients during his time with us in Cape Town and has a sound knowledge of our company and the high standards we expect from all our colleagues. We wish Kevin many more happy years in our Johannesburg office!

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ndaba is always a good opportunity for us to meet up with our clients and thank them

for their support. This year was no exception as clients visited our stand with excitement to see what we had up our sleeves. Indaba is also a team building opportunity for us as we get together with our colleagues from all over the country to catch up and share ideas.

We ran a competition with amazing prizes. Our mysterious Stigs circulated and invited people to take selfies to add to our Facebook page. The results were heartening:

Hylton Ross FacebookAfter Indaba: 999 likesAudience Reached (people visiting our page looking through posts): 1326 peopleLikes on posts during Indaba: 1.6K

ikapa Coaches FacebookAfter Indaba: 210 likesAudience Reached (people visiting our page looking through posts): 982 peopleLikes on posts during Indaba: 1.3K

springbok Atlas FacebookAfter Indaba: 262 likesAudience Reached (people visiting our page looking through posts): 1682 peopleLikes on posts during Indaba: 3.1K

The person with the most ‘likes’ for each company was invited to enter a race. They had to race through an obstacle course using remote controlled cars. We had some near wipe-outs! The excitement grew and the crowd helped by shouting instructions to the drivers. Prizes worth over R81,000 were handed over to the three lucky winners. It was really great fun and the winners got to keep their cars too!

his year we are working on several projects. On 8 June we delivered soup to homeless people in Cape

Town. Our staff joined in to assist in making and delivering the sandwiches and soup.

We are also partnering with Rhino Africa, one of our clients to transport 120 children and some of their carers to Monkey Town.

Earlier this year we transported the children to the Two Oceans Aquarium and it is truly heart-warming to see their little faces light up with excitement when they see the big coaches arrive and they scramble aboard - their first trip on a bus!

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Children boarding the bus to Monkey Town.

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016 has certainly seen a major turnaround in inbound tourism and we are very happy to report

a fantastic and successful first half of the financial year.

If all things remain as is, we will end with the best year ever in the history of Springbok Atlas Tours and Safaris.

All markets have shown great growth, in particular USA, Canada, Italy, and Germany. Forward bookings have all materialised and the “wash factor” is very low in the current climate.

Much has been attributed to the weak South African Rand, the end of the Ebola virus on the African continent and the fact that Southern Africa is regarded as a relatively safe destination in light of European and other country issues.

For the past 6 months we have been quite active on the sales front; attending travel shows abroad and domestically - ITLM Africa, WTM Africa, ITB Berlin, & Indaba, as well as dedicated sales trips to USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, & Holland and Belgium.

I wish to thank all my dedicated, committed, loyal and hard driven staff for their outstanding performance.

glenn Mckeag - CEO


oNe YeAR AT CHIAPPINI squAReIt is now one year since we settled into our wonderful new offices in Chiappini Square. What a pleasure it is to have such a grand office in such a cental location. This year also came with tremendous growth and 7 new positions, resulting in us outgrowing our office space and having to relocate our accounts department into new office space.

Springbok Atlas Tours & Safaris - Sales Team & Sales Managers

oLd To NeW: We are proud to carry our National Rugby team on our Springbok Atlas fleet. The dedicated coaches were rebranded for the new rugby season.

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AWARdsWe are delighted to have recently received recognition awards from some of our suppliers. In the last few months we have been presented with an award as a Top Tour Operator in 2015 in recognition of our outstanding support from Peermont. In addition Luxury Travel Guide named us Top Safari Tour Operator.

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NeW PRoduCT MANAgeRWe are pleased to welcome Chris Chibaduki as the new Product & Contracting Manager. Well respected within the travel industry, Chris comes with over 20 years’ all-round experience in the field and has a passion for travel and coordinating operations.

With his strong negotiation and strategic buying skills combined with excellent product knowledge and market intelligence, Chris looks forward to maintaining excellent supplier relationships in the future.

CeLeBRATINg 70 YeARs his year we are celebrating our 70th anniversary. From humble beginnings springbok

Atlas has been a household name for generations for day tours and long distance tours for local and international travellers. It was established in 1946 as a small local tour company offering tours into the kruger National Park for school children during the weekends and school holidays. Today we are headed up by Ceo glenn Mckeag, who has been with the company for nearly thirty years.

Vivienne Blake 25 years Oct ’15

Elana Redelinghuys 20 years Dec ’15

Gillian Goldman 20 years May ’16

NeW desIgN ANd NeW TouRs FoR guIded 2017Our new Guided Tours 2017 brochure with a completely fresh new design was very well received at Indaba. This year we have introduced an “all the facts at a glance” aspect to the brochure, including tour route map, highlights, rates, departure dates, photos, summary and itinerary. This is proving a great success and we are receiving fabulous feedback.

Included are five new tours: Two new exciting Botswana Tours, a meerkat safari in Oudtshoorn and an overnight experience off the beaten path in the charming small town of Prince Albert.

Also, this year following great interest in the product from the German market, we have produced a German Guided Tour brochure.

sPeCIAL PRoJeCTs dIvIsIoNThe Special Projects Division, headed up by Christelle de Beer, looks after our Southern Africa special interest enquiries, such as sports, viticulture, golfing and culinary, as well as tailor-made experiential itineraries for groups and FIT travellers. This year this division has handled two substantial and challenging groups; 400 English cricket supporters for the England vs South Africa Test Series Cricket, and a group of 250 insurance brokers from the Caribbean. Special planning included events such as a gala dinner in a glass marquee in Kirstenbosch and a shebeen theme dinner in Sun City.

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e have seen a significant growth at Grosvenor Tours from October 2015 until present. Ebola

concerns are now a thing of the past and the weakened Rand has made South Africa an attractive value-for-money destination, and this is what we repeatedly tell our agents across the world. Our representation teams in the USA, UK and Australia are keeping up the hard work to promote our beautiful destinations. To complement their efforts, Grosvenor Tours will be exhibiting at IMEX Las Vegas in October 2016, and will attend IBTM in Barcelona in December 2016.

Grosvenor Tours has won the contract for accommodation and transport services for the World Congress of Endourology in November 2016, been appointed as the official conference host for the July 2017 World Congress of Aquaculture, and the 2017 Round Square International Conference.

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Grosvenor Tours welcomed an incentive group of 40 guests from Australia and New Zealand for a tour of the Mercedes Benz assembly plant. The group then toured the Eastern Cape and Samara Game Reserve in the Karroo, with a farewell dinner at hosted at the opulent Twelve Apostles Hotel.

BosToN sCIeNTIFIC “PResIdeNT CLuB” AFRICAN ReWARd

The group of Presidents Club Winners from Minneapolis in the USA was welcomed to Cape Town by Grosvenor Tours. Other highlights of their tour included the historic Vergelegen Wine Estate and Kapama Private Game Reserve.

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rosvenor Tours has had the privilege of being the preferred ground handling partner for

We Are Africa for the 3rd consecutive year. This “Not One Story” luxury travel show exhibits the best of Southern and East African Hotels, Lodges and DMCs to a group of 400 international hosted buyers. Grosvenor Tours assisted with airport transfers and accommodation for exhibitors. We look forward to joining the TRIBE in May 2017.

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elcome to the Marine Division.

Our crew has sailed hard for the last 6 months. Despite the fluctuation of the rand and the onset of winter, the crew has managed to sail up wind and steer the ship on a good course. This comes at no surprise to me if I look at the members of the team. We have partnered with Two Oceans Aquarium at the V&A Waterfront to promote the Aqualung brand in South Africa as well as grow the diving sport in Cape Town.

We were involved in quite a few sailing and diving events in the past 6 months to promote our products. We have launched a brand new diving watch range and the feedback has been very positive.

Our staff has also been doing well on the sailing front. We have a total of 7 staff members involved in sailing and it is always good to see that the staff and their crews always perform well at these events.

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Ian Coward - 19 years

David Barnes - 37 years

Gary Lyttle - 35 years

Toby Day - 18 years

Gavin And Conrad promoting Aqualung at Icebreaker

Vivian Ferreira - 17 years

Rodney Tanner - 11 years Abdul Waggie - 13 years

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LoNg seRvICe AWARds - MANexManex with 4 of the 15 staff members have been helping steer the ship for longer than 10 years.

Noor Arendse - 33 years - looks after our biggest client, Robertson and Caine’s Mark Africa – 24 years – the star of our retail store. Genene Wagner - 13 - willingness and attention to detail Pat Picton - 10 years - controls shipping cost and supply, supported by Tatum Ulrich


PeNTRAveL sPReAds ITs WINgs Pentravel has opened two new stores, in the Mall of Africa in Midrand and Cape Gate in the Western Cape.

The stores feature the fresh and appealing ‘Sunshine’ concept.

The opening of the Mall of Africa in Midrand has dominated national news lately and record numbers of visitors have been reported.

This brings the national footprint for Pentravel to 32 shops.

Sean Hough says, “Both locations are prime properties for us; The Mall of Africa is our first in the area and Cape Gate will service the rapidly expanding area of Cape Town as well as the outer-lying areas of Paarl. We anticipate both to perform very well.”

Increasing our national footprint helps us better service our clients in these key areas that are rapidly expanding urban hubs.”

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Nicole and Roxanne - Cape Gate

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Kamogelo - Mall of Africa


eLITes CoNFeReNCeIn June this year Pentravel’s Elites had their annual conference at LUX St Gilles, Reunion Island! Adventuring through the Volcanic Island they flipped around in Helicopters, cruised with Dolphins and went paragliding to celebrate the achievements of the past year!

MANAgeRs CoNFeReNCeThis year Pentravel’s managers visited Zanzibar on their annual conference. They were fortunate enough to call the 5star Diamonds La Gemma dell'Est in Nungwi home for 4 nights. The 5 days were spent enjoying sunset Dhow cruises, Mnemba Island Snorkeling, Stone Town touring, sun bathing and occasionally talking business too! Paulo, Vanessa and Joanne were there to represent Thompsons.

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Takashi Miyata - MD


sTAFF NeWsFrom left to right: Faith Lethiba and Shingirai Laine to our inbound team and Maserati Gumede to our outbound team

There are 2 staff that have been with us since last year but were never introduced to the Cullinan Group.

Cassidy Leslie (inbound team) has been with us since Mar 15 and Jennifer Jensen (outbound team) joined us in Apr 15.

Just a little about our new staff;

Faith joined us from African Diamond and has been in the tourism industry since 2007 mainly handling the Turkish market.She is a welcomed addition and a familiar face since she was based in Travel House.

Shingirai Laine joined us from Akilanga DMC and worked with the French market for about 6 years.She is eager to learn and passionate about travel.

Maserati Gumede joined us from South African Airways and used to to work in reservations.This young lady has been in the tourism industry for only 2 years but is a welcomed addition to our small outbound team.

Cassidy joined us straight out of university and started as an office assistant.With hard work and determination she has now joined the inbound team as a junior tour consultant

Jennifer came to us from Sure Travel and after a short time with us was promoted to outbound general manager in Nov 15.

We wish all our new arrivals well as they learn, grow and become part of the Planet Africa Tours family

With flower season upon us we are excited to showcase what the Namaqualand has to offer our

clients this year. Despite the low rainfall and slow start to the blooming we are confident our clients will enjoy the flowers and leave with lasting memories.Planet Africa Tours is gearing up for high season which is around the corner.We are excited that business has picked up and we are finally back to where we were in 2014.

In our outbound division we are grateful that the weak rand hasn’t affected our business as many of our clients are Japanese corporates living in SA.Quite a few Japanese companies we deal with have opened branches in JNB which will lead to an increase in our outbound accounts which is exciting.

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JAPANese sPRINg FesTIvALPlanet Africa Tours participates in an annual Japanese Spring Festival hosted at the Japanese School.

Every year our outbound division has a stall and all are welcome. This year the festival will take place on the 01 Oct 16 from 09h00.

It’s a good opportunity to experience Japanese food, culture and mingle with our + 1000 strong Japanese community living in JNB.

Should anyone want to attend, please contact Takashige Katayama to be added to the invitation list.

Picture: (from left to right) Faith, Maserati, Cassidy and Shingirai

Mary shilleto - CEO


NoT FoR THeMseLves…BuT FoR THe LITTLe oNes! In an entirely commendable initiative, Thompsons for Travel staff in Johannesburg ‘swam their hearts out’ for an extremely worthwhile organisation that raises funds for children with cancer.

THoMPsoNs eNTeRed THe ‘MIdMAR MILe’... ...over the weekend of the 11/12 February,” reports Wendy Schulze, senior leisure manager, “and with the help of everyone at Thompsons we managed to raise R12,500 for CHOC.” Wendy was one of five swimmers that plunged in wearing CHOC costumes.

The Thompsons team each received this medal for completing the race….”and here’s our resident crazy cow Jacqui Trollope,” wrote Wendy. The CHOC Foundation was established in 1979 as a support group for parents of children with cancer, founded by parents of young cancer victims.

“Having experienced the immense emotional and financial toll that cancer takes, they recognised that there’s more than one victim in the family,” explained Wendy. “Their aim is to ease the burden on parents facing the same journey by providing access to relevant, accurate information, as well as emotional and practical support.”

Seen out there…doing it for Children with Childhood Cancer, Jacqui Trollope, Wendy Schulze and Nicole Robb. They are involved with COWS…’Udderly committed to FUNdraising’. “In 2008, COWS, the fundraising arm of CHOC (Children with Childhood Cancers), started out as a group of eight people riding the Momentum 947 Cycle Challenge,” explains Wendy.

“By 2012, a ‘herd’ of 400 participated, generating R3.45 million! To date the ever-growing herd has raised more than R17 million for CHOC!,” said Wendy, “and a full calendar of events leaves little time for ‘grazing’.”

For information on upcoming COW events or to become one of these intrepid fundraisers visit their website http://www.thecows.co.za/ or email [email protected]

“In 2017 we will be entering another bigger and stronger team with the aim of raising more awareness and money, so Thompsons for Travel will once again get ‘udderly’ involved in our CHOC costumes and hit the dam,” says Wendy Schulze, who invites you to contact her if you’d like to be involved.

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THoMPsoNs TRAveL JoHANNesBuRg ANd MINI oN THe MoveThompsons Travel Joburg partnered with Mini Cooper Sandton on a fun day out with top clients from Hollard Insurance.

The clients were given the opportunity to drive the vehicles before being treated to a scrumptious breakfast at The Maslow in Sandton.

Featured here is the lucky group of ladies with Sharon Leong, National Sales Manager, Mary Shilleto, CEO, Sandy du Plessis, Consultant and Priti Ramkissoon, Consultant

ouR sALes sTAR IN duRBAN! We would like to recognise and profile Jayson Schultz our New Business Manager in KZN who joined the Thompsons National Sales Team in July 2015. Jayson has launched our Durban office into new heights, his tactful negotiation skills ,humble approach and convincing selling techniques have resulted in maintaining effective working relationships with existing customers and amplified the Durban customer base by expanding Durban’s new business by over 3 million rand. We believe Jayson is set to conquer the Durban market together with Shelley’s leadership and support that will grow Thompsons Travel Durban into the future.

We ARe PRoud oF ouR dedICATed sTAFF!Featured here with Mary Shilleto our CEO are members of our team who have been with Thompsons Travel for twenty plus years. We would like to recognize and thank them for their years of service and dedication to the Thompsons Travel Team.

seated from left: Lizzy Malinga - 27 yearsBelinda Hodgson - 26 yearsWendy Schulze - 21 years

standing from right:Riaan du Plessis - 20 yearsJohn van Blerk - 26 yearsMary Shilleto - CEOJoseph Ngobeni - 23 yearsMichelle Powell - 23 years

THoMPsoNs TRAveL CAPe ToWN “suPeR HeRo” TeAM BuILd, Took PLACe oN THe 22Nd APRIL AT CeLLARs HoHeNoRT.The event kicked off to a thrilling start with our “A team” stepping out of their comfort zone and into giant bubbles for their adrenaline “bubble-soccer” experience!


Michael Barr - Chairman Cullinan Financial Services

gLACIeR eNTeRPRISeS HAS AdvANCed dURINg 2016 ANd IS NOW PART OF CULLINAN FINANCIAL SeRvICeS, A dIvISION OF CULLINAN HOLdINgS (PTy) LTd.We are pleased with the restructuring of the division which has enabled the business to establish itself in providing highly competitive rates and exceptional service levels. This has resulted in renewed interest for the business. We are confident that this will ensure the steady growth of the division.

THe FOLLOWINg AWARdS WeRe WON By COMPANIeS WITHIN THe gROUP:• Travel & Leisure Magazine awarded the following ‘World’s Best 2016’ to TTC brands/properties:• Red Carnation’s Ashford Castle voted No. 47 Top 100 Hotels in the World• Trafalgar voted ‘Best Escorted Tour Operator’ by Telegraph Travel Awards 2015-2016 (UK newspaper)• RCH Ranked No. 3 in The Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to Work For - 2016• Red Carnation Ashford Castle - Condé Nast Traveler Gold List - 2016• Mrs Tollman awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at The Cateys (these are run by The Caterer magazine in the UK and is

considered the Oscars of the UK hospitality industry)


The team at Cullinan Financial Services

THe TRAveL CORPORATION UPdATe

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Thompsons Holidays: Headed by John Ridler• CPT - Tamlyn Maritz• DBN - Prianka Naidu• Sales - Jessica Kreusch• Jhb Res - Janice Thompson• Marketing - Ramagodi Dikotla• Accounts / Training / HR - Yusuf Sattar• Product operations & Admin - Stacey Chilewitz • Product - Angela Uys

THIs YeAR We ARe TAkINg THe CHAIRMAN’s AWARd To THe NexT LeveL!Following your overwhelming responses to last year’s Chairman’s Award (400+) and the many compelling entries that are still being pursued we are going to be introducing more opportunities for you and your team to win this year.This year we will be awarding a total of 10 Prizes for the Chairman’s Award 2016 ‘Innovation in Action’. The Grand Prize Winner(s) will receive $100,000 USD, Runner-up will receive $10,000 USD and there will be eight additional $5,000 USD Awards. How incredible is that!

We are very excited to start seeing your ideas being contributed! Thank you in advance for taking the time and effort to get involved and submit your suggestions. We appreciate everyone stepping up and contributing to our collective success. Here’s to a successful Chairman’s Award initiative together!

Best regards,Stanley & Brett Tollman

For information o the awards contact Cristina Sequeira on [email protected]

Thompsons Africa: Headed by Viki Haasbroek• Devinia Govender – Accounts• Jarrod Elliot – Buying• Wendy Chemaly – Buying• Tracy Shaffler – General Staff• Candice Alexander• Leanne White• Chanel Young – Reservations• Heston Nayager - Systems

springbok Atlas: • Shanaaz Ziervogel – Chairlady• Vikki Fourie• Colleen Davids• Ferouzah Slingers• Misha Marthinus• Carlynne Van der Merwe

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