Hello!, Guten Tag, ¡hola, Bonjour

GreatGuide here, nice to meet you. With South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup next year, we thought we’d just pop into your inbox and quickly tell you a bit about ourselves.

GreatGuide South Africa (www.greatguide.co.za) is an all-in-one GPS navigator, audio tour guide, recommendation service and itinerary planner and will be at the World Travel Market in London

GreatGuide works as a normal GPS navigator, but it also has GreatAudio, an in-car tour guide, telling you stories, anecdotes and fascinating facts about whatever you're driving past, and GreatAdvice, a listing of the best restaurants, hottest local spots and most exciting activities to visit on your way. Best of all, GreatGuide has My Itinerary, your very own personalized, pre-planned itinerary, with all of your clients names and locations already preloaded and available at them at a touch of a button.

We’re sure, that as the travel trade, you’ll understand how valuable this service is. No more printing out reams and reams of paper itineraries, no more sending complicated directions to various locations. Simply pre-load the entire itinerary online before your guests arrive, and your work is done.ⁱ

GreatGuide is rented out to for just R99.00 per day with collection and drop off points at all of the major airports within South Africa. (Trade discounts available depending on volume)

Some of our existing users include Budget Car hire, Europcar, andBeyond, TUI,OAD Reizen, Kulula Travel, Springbok Atlas, New Frontiers and much more……..

We would love to meet with you in London so please mail me back to set up an appointment. (brian [at] greatguide [dot] co [dot] za )

Alternatively if you are not going to the WTM and would like further information, please contact us at info [at] greatguide [dot] co [dot] za

So what are you waiting for? Looking forward to hearing from you!

Warm Wishes

Brian Segal

BSc Engineering UCT

Director –GreatGuide (Pty) Ltd

brian [at] greatguide [dot] co [dot] za

www.greatguide.co.za

Tel: 021 713 2011 Mobile +27 83 253 0070

P.S. Here are what some of our travellers have to say:

“Words can’t even begin to describe my experience with your GPS. I am enjoying myself making use of it and even getting to know it better.” Jessica M (GM of Don Suites Sea Point)

“The gadget is awesome – learnt a lot about Cape Town as well as the Winelands (lots of laughs on some of these as well).  One of the aspects that I found fantastic is that it is not the same voice and keeps the trip interesting (not like an ordinary tour guide with the same boring tone).” Johan

“I must tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed the GreatGuide on my way home from work today and to work this morning. I enjoyed it so much, that I passed it on to Anders Ellqvist, a Swedish journalist I’m assisting during his stay in Cape Town.” Nicole Moody PR and Communications Manager Cape Town Tourism

“We did enjoy the my itinerary and looked for hotspots and that worked out wonderful. ………. The navigator worked out fine, makes life much easier” –Debbie -OAD

P.P.S. Here are what some of our marketing partners have to say:

“We are delighted that after 18 months of preparations, we finally have a tourist friendly GPS unit that is fully functional and ready to go.

One of the problems with a traditional GPS, is that many of the hotels and properties in South Africa do not have a physical street address – prime examples being game reserves or of the Battlefield lodges – and surprisingly, many of the Garden Route hotels that are not in town directly, such as Hunters, Kurland, Hog Hollow, Emily Moon etc. While we were keen to provide all our clients with a GPS unit, the fact that so many options en route could not be entered sufficiently meant that it was as good as useless.

This lead to a collaboration with The GreatGuide Company, who took a list of 750 of our top properties and loaded the GPS co ordinates into a GPS system and as a result have been able to provide us with very accurate directions to all properties on a pax’s itinerary.” New Frontiers

“While our driving directions are as accurate as possible, and are checked three times before being issued, they can be affected by changes such as new road names (Durban alone has undergone 130 road name changes in the recent years as previous Apartheid era names are replaced by newly democratic ones) and in rural areas especially, a scarcity of road signage, which does make this unit the most accurate self drive facility available.”

P.P.P.S – if you are wanting to go to a game farm or lodge – and you found that A traditional GPS could not navigate to you there – we can, please drop us a mail and we will tell you more.