Women's Month

Meet the gutsy entrepreneur changing tourism ‘to a face that looks like me’

Gugu Sithole, founder of Glamping Adventures, is striving to make SA travel accessible to all and empowering rural women too

07 August 2022 - 00:00

"Where I come from, travelling is associated with wealth and privilege," says Gugu Sithole. The courageous entrepreneur founded Glamping Adventures a few years ago, a successful business that combines her passion for travel with social responsibility. "My love of travelling and adventure was born from a curious mind. There are 60-million people in SA and only 3.5-million of them can afford to travel the country. That is an injustice."..

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