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		<title>CapeInfo News February 2009</title>
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			<title>Janey Mac says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-204</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The fans who come for the football are, in my experience, higher risk guests than average in terms of damage to property, disturbances to other guests and general mess. They should expect the additional risk to attract additional cost in accommodation. I don't beleive many of them will change their holiday patterns based on world cup prices. Many of them use their travel budget to follow their team. I would like to see a survey that compares accommodation and travel prices for the world cup in the last 4 venues to understand the extent to which South Africa is different. Supply and demand is and always has been a basic economic reality. If there is a moral debate it applies much more importantly to medicines and basic life essentials than to luxury items like holiday accomodation. I wish you would get off your holier than thou high horse and wake up to reality.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Janey Mac</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>J L Nel says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-156</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi, How can we get listed as "Fair Deal" for 2010 ?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>J L Nel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Paulo says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-148</link>
			<description><![CDATA[William, Pauline, You are gouging. Three times the normal rate? That's gouging. The message you send is that it's OK to milk the fans because they can afford R30k for air tickets. The airlines' antics aside, what YOU are doing is milking the situation. It's called greed, no less, and it gives the industry a bad name.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Bridget says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-147</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Personally, I think B&B's should be charging the Normal High Season Rates, eg Nov,Dec, = R 600 per person, per night B&B, that is not too much for the World Cup. I have a Guest House in Hermanus, have a number of bookings, using the term...long term relationship....Guests don't mind paying, as we all do, if you getting the excellent service and quality for the money. Most are complaining about the air Fares..too expensive!!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bridget</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Barry Livsey says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-146</link>
			<description><![CDATA[well its quite strange...who is making the mark-up.Our guest lodge rates have been marked up 60 -65% by MATCH ,FIFAS official Accommodation agents for the World Cup...so who's fleecing who.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Barry Livsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>craig holt says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-145</link>
			<description><![CDATA[as a England fan living in SA it cost me a small fortune going to watch away and away after England play Egypt At Wembley the next games will be at home I went on the internet and got a quote for accomadition in Rusternburg And PE and got Quoted 1500rand pp 2000 Rand pp b&b then i phoned the one in Rusternburg and said i wanted to stay in feb 300-400 PP are people crazy the last world cup in Germany we were payin 69-70 euros per night per couple SA has now lost a lot of fans as it is pricing itself out on the holels and air fair We went to the draw in CT and in Long Street we were paying 20 rand per pint insted of 14 rand 140000 went to the last game England Played in Germany the most ever to try and watch a football game there are only 7000england applied for tickets all were sucsesfull but a few the goverment must wake up put extra flights on even if thay subsdise them as people wiil come back to this brill countrey ACT NOW]]></description>
			<dc:creator>craig holt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Mary Ashford says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-144</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You will find that in the Swartland and West Coast region prices have generally remained the same i.e. normal winter prices this despite the fact that we have more sunny days, less wind and gives value for money. I know of some guest houses who decided last year that they would not raise their fees again until end 2011. You can get bed and breakfast for two people at R800 per room in a four star lodge. So people wake up and enjoy what is on your doorstep. Less than an hour away. You can enjoy bette weather conditions, more value for your money and safer!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mary Ashford</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Pauline says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-143</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I cannot agree more with William(1972) If I have to pay twice the rate at the coast in December than I would in November, why would any one have a problem in paying x3 during a world event? Why are we arguing about this, its common sense!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Pauline</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>William1972 says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-139</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I don't think the fact that the world cup is in winter bears any relevance to suggestions that room prices should be lower?! It is fine for people to have lower prices in winter (when there is not a world cup) and then to increase them in the summer when there is more demand, it only seems natural to adjust them for the world cup (increase the prices) as there is increased demand. No one coming to SA would expect the prices to be lower or even the same as peak season prices. We as hotel owners have every right to charge what other countries charge for this once off event and I think people will realise when they arrive that if they were to return to SA again it would be a lot cheaper. They are not going to refuse to return because their hotel was expensive during the World Cup, they're not stupid, they realise it is an expensive time to visit. If you can afford R30, 000 for 2 air tickets to watch a game of football then I am sure you can afford R1800 a night for a hotel room in the centre of Cape Town which is what I am charging (3 x the normal rate). If I go to any other city in the world I pay this price and that is when there is no special event on like the world cup. The media is giving the impression that it is the people’s god given right to be able to fly around the world and follow their team in a football match...it isn't! It is a privileged for people who can afford it. If you can’t afford it you watch it on TV. Unfair pressure is being put on small hotels and B&B owners to cut their rates, to make it the same price as peak season (or even low season - where is the logic in that???). We as individual businesses will be the ones taking the loss - with the empty promise of helping the tourism industry. I know that if I cut my rates it will not make any difference except that I will lose out while everyone else makes money. If SA really wants to do something positive they should take all the tax that is generated from the tourists paying these ‘high prices’ and invest it directly in crime prevention, housing for the poor, education and tourism. This will bring more people back to SA than cheap hotel rooms.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>William1972</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>BB says:</title>
			<link>http://capeinfo.com/capeinfo-news-feb10#comment-137</link>
			<description><![CDATA[With regards to the "vulture/nurturer" bit. My wife and I sayed 3 nights in a wondefull place in Paternoster in November last year. Their rate was R1200 per night. The place was so amazing we decided we were going to go back in June this year, but this time for 10 days. When we went into the website to book online, HORROR!!! -- They have "adjusted" their rate to R3200 per night! In winter! Surely there should be some kind of regulation system with the tourism grading council?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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