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30 never looked this good
Travel News Namibia magazine celebrates 30 years of sharing Namibian stories with the world.
The smell of rain is in the air as I sit in my office in Windhoek and work through the Summer issue of Travel News Namibia. It’s been a wild ride of a year, the first in which we feel we have found steady footing and returned to a true sense of ‘normal’. The team has been out in the field at least once a month during 2023. Discovering interesting places, meeting new people and finding stories that matter.
It has been a year of many celebrations, the most significant of which is certainly the 30-year anniversary Venture Media's Travel News Namibia publication. At a joyful event at Droombos on 1 November, we celebrated 30 years of the magazine in style! A remarkable occasion made all the more special because we could share it with our friends and partners in the tourism industry. We would like to thank Hollard Namibia for their generous contribution to this special event, and Droombos for hosting us. We would also like to thank our tourism partners who participated in this special evening. Partners who have supported us and continue to support our goals of sharing Namibian stories across the world. Ongava, Ondili, Journeys, Namibia Wildlife Resorts, Africa on Wheels, FlyNamibia, Wilderness and CYMOT, along with all our other advertisers. Your support and the impact you have on tourism in Namibia is invaluable.
For the last three decades, Venture Publications, now Venture Media, has been at the forefront of sharing credible, upto-date, informative and inspiring Namibian travel and tourism stories and news with the world. What started as a thin leaflet that was posted to countries across the globe, is today the multimedia content and storytelling platform we all know and love.
Paul van Schalkwyk started Travel News Namibia as a platform for the tourism industry to share their brands and products with the world. Few other publications with a single-destination niche market have enjoyed the success and longevity which Travel News Namibia celebrates this year.
With Rièth van Schalkwyk at the helm for almost as long as Travel News has existed, this beautiful publication has shared Namibia’s story with the world. Rièth built a legacy, a powerful tool that can celebrate success, showcase beauty and advocate change. She has placed it in our care and we are honoured and humbled.
In the summer issue, the last of our 30th celebratory year, we explore a diverse selection of wonderfully and uniquely Namibian destinations. Le Roux goes on a hike in elephant country and Kirsty meets a host of interesting people in Swakopmund, our coastal gem. Hilda Basson Namundjebo takes us with her on a journey into the Fish River Canyon and Pompie entertains and delights with the world’s ugliest bird. Follow our team as they rediscover Khaudum and the Nyae Nyae with Charene’s epic tale of wild adventures into Namibia’s last true wilderness.
Along the way we hope you are informed, inspired and fall in love with Namibia. We will continue to dedicate the pages of Travel News Namibia to this purpose. Here's to another 30 years of inspiring conscious travel, one Namibian story at a time.
With love from Namibia.
