SA Tourism’s Mega Lekker Escape wows international visitors

Over a hundred Australian and New Zealand trade and media representatives crisscrossed the country for SA Tourism’s Mega Lekker Escape.

The flagship event exposed the tourists to immersive itineraries across South Africa, culminating in a two-day visit to The Palace of the Lost City at the world-renowned Sun City Resort in North West.

The initiative is designed to showcase South Africa’s diverse tourism offerings while facilitating impactful engagements between media, trade partners and SA Tourism’s Global PR team. This is how the tourists described the experience.

“We arrived in Joburg from there we travelled to rhino ridge in one of the oldest game reserves where we had three nights. So absolutely amazing. Rhinos! Rhinos! Rhinos! and we are really lucky to experience not only rhinos but the community,” the tourist commented.

“My highlight was actually amazing. It was hearing that munch and crunch of a leopard chewing, eating, feasting on fresh kill of impala,” another tourist says.

According to Darryl Erasmus of SA Tourism, the timing of the event ahead of South Africa hosting the G20 Summit underscores the nation’s leadership in leveraging tourism for economic recovery, social impact, and global collaboration.

“South Africa’s got these icons, the Kruger National Park and Cape Town and others but I think what we were trying to achieve by holding this particular mega lekker escape initiative, is to show to the traveller the diversity that is South Africa. The diversity of products and experiences that you don’t only have to come to South Africa for those iconic things. There is much to be had and much to be experienced in the smaller towns and in the lesser known experiences because often in those hidden gems, you find that authenticity and that connection and it’s important for us to take the uniqueness of South Africa and package it in a way that actually eliminates the competition because there is no other country in the world like South Africa,” Erasmus elaborates.

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