Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays

ArabellaStarwood enjoys an excellent relationship with Into Africa. All the staff are professional, well organised and clear in their communications and keep us well informed of developments. They are a pleasure to work with and we value them as an important business partner.

ArabellaStarwood always looks forward to working with Into Africa and strengthening our mutually beneficial relationship.

Esmare van Tonder
Sales Manager: Meetings, Conferences & Incentives
ArabellaStarwood Hotels & Resorts South Africa

International Fertiliser Industry Association

From the very early stages of our planning, we appreciated the ability of Into Africa's management team to listen to our requirements, advise us and provide clear costs.

Our aim was to secure welcome services for a group of 1300 high-level business executives from more than 75 countries, including tour activities for accompanying persons and tailor-made post tour options.

During the conference itself, your team impressed us with impeccable logistics, reliability and great dedication at all times. Our participants enjoyed the scheduled tours and we have received extremely favourable comments on the post tours and how individual requests were met.

An important point for us, as organisers, was your ability to synchronise with other partners involved in the conference and work very nicely with them, providing excellent logistical support.

Also very much appreciated was the clarity and details of our financial accounts and the fact that they closely matched your initial estimates.

Diana Sandalian Head
Conference Service
International Fertiliser Industry Association

Oriflame Cosmetics

We have just completed one of the most successful programmes in the history of our corporate incentives. All of our consultants and their invited guests have returned to their various home markets across the globe buzzing with excitement over their two week programme in Zambia and South Africa.

A large part of the programme success has to do with the incredible efforts that our contracting DMC partner, Into Africa, placed into the programme.

From the beginning stages of our contact, 3 years ago, the relationship has been one marked by an ease of communication, responsiveness, willingness to work with our programme and budgetary needs, and the effort to always go the extra step to work with our company. We have hosted many programmes in many countries and have a great deal of experience to speak from when we evaluate the skills of vendors.

Peter Kropp
International Conference and Events Manager
Oriflame Cosmetics

Sun International

Into Africa is currently one of Sun International's preferred "Platinum" partners. Into Africa have been contracted with Sun International for more than 10 years and we have always enjoyed an excellent business relationship with them.

As a Destination Management Company, Into Africa brings with them a wealth of experience in Southern Africa. The attention to detail, planning and operational expertise is always met well beyond expectations.

We would not hesitate in recommending this superb organisation to handle Events, Conferences or Incentives within Southern Africa.

Graham Wood
Divisional Director Resorts
Sun International

Young Presidents Association (YPO)

Madelein Norval from Into Africa did the most amazing job for our California Coast Chapter couples retreat that was held in South Africa. Her team handled all of the intricate details for us which was especially valuable as we are based in California and we had to depend on her and her team to be our on the ground resource for everything. Our group was blown away by the experience and Madelein made it all happen in a very calm way. She was always ahead of the curve in planning for unforeseeable circumstances without any panic or fuss whilst all along not looking for any credit for the success of our events. It was an absolute pleasure working with her and Into Africa and I'd do it again in a heart beat.

Larry Green
YPO

Business Travel Team

Business Travel Team Ltd have been organising Conferences and Incentives for 28 years and Into Africa have been known to us for the past decade and have never let us down. We have placed in excess of 10 groups with Into Africa and the co-ordination and negotiations have been second to none, whoever we speak to are aware of our requirements and response time is always immediate.

Clients of Business Travel Team Ltd have always commented on Into Africa's staffing of events and have been most impressed with the style and quality which is given.

Bob White
Chairman Business Travel Team

Incentive Travel & Corporate Meetings

The ITCM Magazine Familiarisation Trip to Cape Town and Sun City totally dazzled the members of our group, who were all highly experienced UK corporate travel specialists. It was not just that a complex itinerary went so smoothly and comfortably, but that Into Africa was able to bring into play so many fascinating and knowledgeable people to add great depth and understanding to everything we saw. We were also amazed and delighted at travelling in everything from a motor-cycle sidecar to a private plane.

We all came away from South Africa so much more informed about it's recent history, it's vigorous efforts to make progress, it's beautiful landscape and wildlife and it's dynamic people, as well, of course, about the superb hotels and conference facilities. We were very impressed with the country - and with Into Africa, that was able to inject so much into such a short space of time.

Sydney Paulden
Publisher of ITCM (Incentive Travel & Corporate Meetings)

Instinctif

On a slightly separate note I just want to say I HUGE thank you to everyone - Juliet, Vicky, Nick and the whole team for everything that you did for the event it was superb and we were truly very happy (and we all know how difficult it is make me happy!!!!) plus we had the debrief with the client yesterday and they could not think of ANYTHING to criticise - which is almost unheard of.

Jo Broadhead
Director of Production
Instinctif

International Engineering Company

For our client Würth, all 1500 guests from all over the world and also the Congress Team all the hard work paid off: we got an enthusiastic and overwhelming response to the event; numerous Thank you letters and e–mails bear testimony for the deep impression the congress left with all participants.

We would like to forward this gratefulness to you and your team. Without you – and especially your consistent and dedicated commitment we wouldn’t have been able to realize this project. The calmness with which you mastered the scale and complexity of this task as well as you handled the many amendments and points of action was impressive. Thank you very much for this!

We hope that we will have another possibility to work with you in the future.

Civitas

I am writing to try to express in words the appreciation I and all of us involved in the Thirteenth World Congress on Civic Education have for the unbelievable job performed by Into Africa.

As you know, we hold a World Congress each year to bring together the hundreds of people we work with in more than 80 countries around the world. This is the seventh World Congress that I have supervised as director of the Center’s International programs. Without any doubt it was the best ever, both in terms of levels of participation and number of countries represented, but also in the quality of the venue, program, and arrangements.

Into Africa made a key contribution to this success. Your company’s knowledge of local arrangements and the quality of your staff surpassed any expectations we might have had. The people who work in our network vary greatly in their sophistication and experience internationally. Your staff were able to address any and all questions about the arrangements for the conference itself and for various excursions that you offered to the participants before and after the event.

Despite exhaustive planning, there are always unanticipated, last minute demands from our participants, speakers, or sponsors. Normally, the stress of dealing with these adjustments, which can make or break the success of the conference, bear down on our program staff, leaving us exhausted and irritable by the end. This year your staff were there with a smile and a can do attitude no matter how outrageous or unexpected the request, leaving us to do our job of ensuring the best possible experience for our participants. For the first time in many years I returned from this event exhilarated and looking forward to next year–if we can find a company like yours to help us again.

I think that perhaps that is the best compliment I can offer: if we could bottle Into Africa and take you with us for every event in every corner of the world where we run programs and organize workshops and conferences we would do so.

Thank you for the outstanding effort, the attention to detail, the enthusiasm with which you responded to every emergency, and the warmth of human spirit you exhibited. We will miss South Africa, but we will miss you and your support even more when we begin our organizing activities in earnest next year.

If the occasion ever arises, please do not hesitate to offer a potential client the opportunity to speak with us about the magnificent result they will have from an association with you.

Richard A. Nuccio, Ph.D.
Director, Civitas International Programs