January 01, 2007

Welcome to 2007

Welcome to 2007, we at Lathita Expeditions wish you all a great year filled with joy and prosperity. We will be launching a number of new projects and new destinations in the coming year and wish to invite everyone to join us in exploring and rediscovering the African Continent. Some of the new destinations include Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda and Reunion. We are currently not promoting our full range of products on our website, but early in 2007 this will change. We are in the process of updating the site and will start adding all our products to the site soon.

Products will include;
- Luxury Accommodation
- 4x4 Jeep Hire (New Product)
- 4x4 Jeep Tours (New Product)
- Luxury Tours
- Mobile Safaris
- Motorcycle Tours
- Active Adventures
- Gorilla and Chimpanzee Tours (New Product)
- Romantic and Exclusive Destinations
- “Mma Ramotswa” cultural tours (New Product)
After the famous Ladies Detective Series based in Botswana.

Together with the product listing and launching we have started a number of promotional blog’s where we are promoting destinations in Africa. This includes Private and Public Game Reserves, Indian Ocean Island destinations, Private and group packages and general information on all the different destinations we offer.

The Blog’s include;
http://lathita.blogspot.com/
We focus on Private and Public Game Reserves through this blog and list activities and general information on African countries alternately.
http://safari-in-africa.blogspot.com/
This blog focus on Safari products and includes products that we tailor made for clients and some scheduled packages.
http://gorilla-safaris.blogspot.com/
As the name states this blog will focus on Gorilla viewing and will include destinations in Uganda and Rwanda.
http://honeymoon-in-africa.blogspot.com/
This blog features exclusive and romantic African Destinations
http://africanaccommodation.blogspot.com/
Included in our product range we have approximately 600 places of accommodation in Africa and Indian Ocean Islands, which will be featured here.

Lathita Expeditions will do a number of marketing projects through 2007. The first appearance will be at the “Expo4Brides” in Pretoria, South Africa. We will primarily focus on Luxury Destinations for this Expo. Not too long after that in will be “Valentines” and more exotic destinations and we will include a number of short breakaway packages. After Valentines we will focus on Easter and will be promoting a number of family orientated products, specifically in the Eastern Cape Region of South Africa. Some of the other promotional activities you can look out for includes;
- Indaba 2007
- SCG Conference 2007
- Mma Ramotswa Cultural Experience
- Winter Kalahari Experience


Just a last word before I say goodbye. At the SCG Conference we will be running scheduled trips to great sites and activities around Port Elizabeth, which will include, Addo Elephant National Park, Addo Elephant Back Safaris, Baviaans Nature Reserve and Tsitsikamma Nature Reserve. On this note I would like wish you all a great year in 2007 and hope to see you on Safari with Lathita Expeditions.

Best Regards,

Johan Gerber.