TOURVEST AND TOURVEST INBOUND OPERATORS (TIO)

Global Conferences Africa is owned by Tourvest, South Africa’s leading travel and touring company; a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, which is in turn owned by Imperial Holdings.

The other partners are Vuya! Investments, a Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Company. For more information on Tourvest and Tio please visit their websites at www.tourvest.co.za  and  www.tio.co.za

OUR EMPOWERMENT PARTNER

Vuya! Investments (Pty) Limited was founded in September 2002 as an investment holding company on a solid Black Empowerment basis, being 87% black owned, engendered and with a substantial spread across initiatives with a record of success in the development of communities. Its central aim since inception has been to be a self-sustaining women-led empowerment force focusing on strategic investments where Black Economic Empowerment is a business imperative whilst striving for income generation to build shareholder value, creating jobs and developing communities. Through its major development shareholder Izandla, the company has over time gained extensive experience in developing micro-projects and building capacity within communities.

Its driving force is an intensely committed management team under the dynamic leadership of chairperson Mercia Isaacs. Vuya! understands the central importance of adding value to investee companies. Among these at present are prestige names like Henkel, Global Conferences Africa, Proudfoot and Phoenix Surgical. In implementing an investment strategy that aims at growing its portfolio of unlisted assets while exploring opportunities arising from the government’s programme of public-private partnerships, Vuya! has achieved successes such as the Lentegeur public-private partnership in association with Drake and Scull in Mitchell’s Plain.