Sam Bradley visited Lucerne and discovered a city of contrasts where history, adventure and culture collide.

You think you know New York from the movies. Jagged skyline, Central Park joggers. Helicopters cruising past the Empire State building.

Tammy Ballantyne walks the Great Ocean Walk in Australia, 104km of spectacular scenery all undertaken in five foot-weary days.

The Gondwana Game Reserve is a jewel in the crown of the southern Cape, writes Lindiz van Zilla.

In autumn and winter – the dry season – the river recedes and a vast beach-like plain extends in front of Lugenda Wilderness Camp.

Johannesburg is the 20th fastest growing city in the world in terms of international visitor growth rates between 2009 and 2013, according to the latest MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index.

South Africa's Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has been selected to lead a new United Nations World Tourism Organisation commission on tourism and development, looking at how to leverage official development assistance resources globally towards the sector's development.

Three Cape Town hotels have made it onto the "World's Best Service" list in the Africa and Middle East category in an international survey by the US edition of Travel and Leisure released in the magazine's June 2013 issue.

The South African Tourism Indaba should expand its platform by attracting even more exhibitors and buyers from the African continent and strengthening the continent's tourism industry, Tourism Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk said on Sunday.

South Africa has been voted the top dream destination by members of the world's largest travel and lifestyle social network, Where Are You Now? (WAYN), in the site's recent dream destination competition.