Category: Travel

Continuing with the ‘tradition’ that we started last year, we are giving awards to our Most Popular Accommodations of 2010. Selecting the winners When we handed out the 2009 awards, TravelGround.com was less than 6 months old and the TravelGround Awards were based on around a quarter-million page views along with the corresponding enquiries, bookings […]

Last time we reported on our traffic, we promised that our growth up to June/July 2010 would continue beyond the World Cup. So here’s the proof, straight from Google Analytics! From the first week of January 2010, to the first week of January 2011 we have seen a 5 fold increase in traffic. In November […]

Many of you were thrilled to hear about our significant Traffic Growth over 2009, and we’re happy to anounce the the trend has continued for the first six months of 2010. If you are wondering how this scale compares to our previous enquiries graph,rest assured that the last week shown here had over double the […]

The following post is a review of Waterfront Guesthouse in Port Owen by Marosane Hutchinson, Booking Agent at TravelGround.com. I recently had the awesome privilege of being invited by Rob Newman, owner of The Waterfront Guest House, to stay at his 5-star, self-catering guest house on the banks of the Port Owen Marina.  Never in […]

Cape Town has recently been selected by Forbes as one of the 12 most beautiful cities in the world! The selection of cities was done by a multi-national team of respected experts who lauded Cape Town for its low environmental impact and scenic qualities. We agree! Cape Town is an amazing city to live in […]

Recently we have been contacted by a number of establishment’s who have requested TravelGround.com membership badges for their websites. We apologise for the time taken to distribute these badges, but our office has being kept busy by our growing web-traffic (now at 90,000 page-views per month), as well as thousands of enquiries and bookings. Below […]

Today we have begun a tradition here at TravelGround.com. We are giving awards to our most popular accommodations of 2009, and we will be awarding them every year from now on. Choosing the winners Since TravelGround opened only 6 months ago we have received almost 250,000 page views and thousands of accommodation enquiries, bookings and […]

The Tourism Grading Council of South Africa‘s Star Gradings are independently assessed and are the only Star Gradings accepted and displayed on TravelGround.com. The TGCSA may award between 1 and 5 stars to an accommodation depending on the overall standard that a guest can expect, as well as the facilities on offer. We are proud […]