Zahir Vallie

 Zahir Vallie was born in 1974 in Cape Town. In the past ten years, he has accomplished remarkable achievements. In 2007, Vallie’s conglomerate business was registered as Zahir Tourism Consultancy (ZTC), after previously working in the hospitality industry for many years. The first branch of Z Group conglomerate was introduced as “Zahir’s Tourism Consultancy.” In 2015 the rest of the Z Group branches started emerging. A year later, Z Prop – Vallie’s real estate company now situated in Lansdowne, was finally developed. It is now one of his most esteemed successes in his conglomerate. He later introduced Z MED, in June 2019, when a gentleman in his neighborhood suffered a heart attack and waited for more than 4 hours for emergency medical services to arrive. Vallie applied to the Department of Health on the 12th of July 2019 to register as an ambulance service and Z-Med officially responded to its first call on the 21st of February 2020. Since then, both Z-Prop and Z-Med have flouris...

Eco-tourism Responsible tourism means all tourism directly dependent on the use of natural life e.g. wildlife and landscape. Nature based tourism include eco-tourism and mass tourism. Uncontrolled mass tourism continues to contribute to the degradation of natural & cultural significance (commercialization of Culture) thus leading or causing loss of biological and cultural biodiversity, and important sources of income. Nature based tourism offers a way of financing unique ecosystems preservation. This provides opportunity for the community living near the protected areas to benefit economically e.g. employment opportunity. But Nature based tourism & travel while sustaining eco-system also degrades them. Much nature based tourism falls short of social responsibility to the local community. Sustainable tourism is developed and managed in such a way that all tourism activities will focus on a heritage resource, natural and cultural which can be continued imminently and every ef...

Yes, of course, it does, but as much as it should? When you think of the number of travel directories and websites available to travelers you would think that this is a world free of the normal conventions of business but unfortunately it is often bound by restrictions that travelers would not appreciate. Pricing of travel is one of the conventions that are not yet totally free of restrictions and understandably so due to distribution considerations. Travel businesses using traditional distribution chains for the sale of their products need to allow for the payments of commission to various levels of middlemen, Inbound Tour Operators, Wholesalers, and Retailers, all of who need to take a percentage for their efforts in enabling travel services and products to reach the consumer. Websites, however, reach directly to consumers and enable them to make direct bookings with travel providers but they can still incur the costs attributed to these middlemen. But, to place, a two-tier pri...