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  • UPCT goes Brazilian

    Posted on April 15, 2024

    UP Campus Tours students host members of the Brazilian Embassy

  • UP EXPERT OPNION: South African “Human Rights Day” and UPCT

    Posted on April 04, 2024

    As South Africa observed Human Rights Day recently, a group of in-training tourist guides from the UP Campus Tours visited the Centre for Human Rights as an important stop as part of their campus tour itinerary and learned more about its history and functions.

  • UPCT embraces outreach!

    Posted on March 27, 2024

    UP Tourism Honours Students show high school learners future educational opportunities and the UP Hatfield Campus

  • UPCT takes a behind-the-scenes tour of UP Museums

    Posted on March 25, 2024

    University of Pretoria Tourism Honours students take a tour of the University of Pretoria Museums as part of their training

  • South African “Human Rights Day” and University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT)

    Posted on March 21, 2024

    In 1958, South Africa saw 1.5 million convictions yearly under apartheid's pass laws, controlling black movement. 1960 brought anti-pass campaigns by ANC and PAC. On March 21, PAC planned protests, Sharpeville saw 69 dead. Since 1994, Sharpeville Massacre remembered as Human Rights Day. March 20,...

  • UPCT 2024 gets off to a stylish start

    Posted on March 13, 2024

    The UP Campus Tours Hons Student Team of 2024 receives their branded T-shirts from Enterprises UP.

  • UPCT celebrates 20 years with a reunion

    Posted on July 05, 2023

    The University of Pretoria Campus Tours 20-year reunion

  • International Webinar: ATLAS AFRICA in collaboration with UPCT 2021

    Posted on December 01, 2021

    The Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS), the global association established to develop transnational educational and research initiatives in tourism and leisure, hosted a webinar in collaboration with the 2021 University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) team on...

  • Historical and Heritage Studies celebrates Heritage Month

    Posted on September 09, 2021

    In September South Africans celebrate their cultural heritage with a public holiday. The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies is hosting initiatives and participating in events related to both natural and cultural heritage and tourism.

  • UPCT celebrates International Museum Day “virtually”

    Posted on May 31, 2021

    The University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) proudly presented International Museum Day (IMD) on 18 May 2021. Although Museum Day is a regular annual event on the University of Pretoria (UP) calendar, this was the first time the event was held on a virtual platform.

  • UPCT celebrates the “Year of the Masks” at virtual year-end function

    Posted on December 10, 2020

    On 4 December 2020 the Heritage and Cultural Tourism honours students held their annual year-end-function in celebration

  • ATLAS hosts UPCT international webinar

    Posted on December 10, 2020

    On 2 December 2020 the University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) team presented an international webinar hosted by the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS).

  • Virtual innovation: UPVCT-Interactive and EBIT Week

    Posted on August 17, 2020

    Six ladies walked into the University of Pretoria Campus Tours office at the start of the year with enthusiasm in their hearts.

  • UP Campus Tours goes digital with interactive, customised virtual tours

    Posted on June 25, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the tourism industry worldwide. Many are asking: how will the industry survive; what will it look like in the years to come; can I, or my child, still develop a career in tourism? The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Historical and Heritage...

  • UP Campus Tours celebrate Humanities 100 with a “Walk Back in Time”

    Posted on October 25, 2019

    The Heritage and Cultural Tourism honours students in Department of Historical and Heritage Studies who manage University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) hosted a “Walk Back in Time” on 17 October 2019.

  • UP Campus Tours celebrates 16 years

    Posted on April 23, 2019

    The University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) recently celebrated its 16th birthday. Initiated by Prof Karen Harris, UPCT has grown to become an excellent business simulation exercise for the Heritage and Cultural Tourism honour’s programme students from the Department of Historical and...

  • Japanese tourism students from Rikkyo University enjoy a UP campus tour

    Posted on March 15, 2019

    Tourism students from Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan were taken on a tour of the Hatfield Campus by two members of UP Campus Tours, Thando Mthimkulu and Danolien van den Berg

  • Heritage tour for Heritage Month!

    Posted on October 19, 2018

    In celebration of Heritage Month the UP Campus Tours team conducted a tour for guests from the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SARHA) and the National Heritage Council.

  • 2018 Departmental Awards Function

    Posted on July 17, 2018

    On 12 April 2018 the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies was proud to celebrate the achievements of its outstanding, top-achieving students.

  • Film tourism study makes news

    Posted on May 29, 2018

    Lecturers Charlene Herselman and Hannes Engelbrecht gave a presentation in Cape Town recently outlining the potential of film tourism for South Africa.

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