Johan Schrade of Gate 7 Tourism Solutions heads up this section.

We compile master plans which ensure that tourism marketing and tourism development are integrated in harmony with the environment and adhere to the principles of Agenda 21 for the travel and tourism industry.

We maintain an up to date, comprehensive data base of tourism statistics to monitor trends and measure the economic impact of visitor arrivals.

Johan Schrade of Gate 7 Tourism Solutions heads up this section.

We compile master plans which ensure that tourism marketing and tourism development are integrated in harmony with the environment and adhere to the principles of Agenda 21 for the travel and tourism industry.

We maintain an up to date, comprehensive data base of tourism statistics to monitor trends and measure the economic impact of visitor arrivals.

• We conduct an audit of tourism assets and infrastructure to identify areas of high, medium and low tourism potential.
• We advise on appropriate developments for sensitive ecosystems, implement a consultative process and prepare project proposals.
• When required, we design appropriate orginizational structures to drive strategic plans and recommend an operational budget.
• We facilitate interactional workshops.
• Conduct SWOT and gap analyses.
• Present customized activity building training programs to educate host communities.
• We conduct market research assignments.
• Develop tourism products, design sales literature, activity and route maps.
• Integrated tourism development & marketing plans.
• Develop tourism brand identities and corporate communication strategies.
• Electronic support data base marketing.
• Information distribution system & infrastructure planning.
• Tourist route and area development & marketing.
• Signage - pedestrian, roads, outdoor advertising.
• Tourism institutional structures development & support.
• Design, develop and manage tourism related seminars and conferences.

We offer a complete range of professional tourism consulting services to meet the needs of clients, facilitate collaborative economic development, and identify tourism investment projects within spatial development initiatives. Our vision is global and our team can operate anywhere in the world.

Tourism marketing
Gate 7, through its strategic alliance with Peter Myles of Tourism 2000 and the UPE Centre For Tourism Studies, provides a comprehensive range of tourism related marketing planning and implementation services including tourism development marketing, tourism product marketing, arts & crafts, tourism routes, SMME tourism enterprise development marketing, agri-tourism marketing and game reserve marketing.

The range includes concept development, strategic planning, budgeting, actions & implementations, distribution and agent linkages.