Dwars River Escape Route Vision2020

CLICK HERE TO READ THE VISION2020

In late 2015, I was commissioned by Open Africa, a rural tourism route development organisation, to develop a tourism route in the Dwars River Valley. The Dwars River Valley is that stretch of winelands on the Helshoogte road between Stellenbosch and Franschoek, centred by the towns of Pniel, Kylemore and Lanquedoch. It must be one of the most magnificent valleys on earth.

Open Africa had started a route 10 years earlier in the valley, but for various reasons the route had fizzled out. So this time around was an attempt to give it another go with 10 years of new learning to draw on, and financing from the European Union over a 3 year period.

The work started in late August 2015, and at the time of writing this page, we been on the project for 10 months now. In May 2016, we - myself as route mentor, together with the 9 founding members, all businesses in the valley - started to solidify a vision for the valley, drawing on months of conversations and workshops, into a document known as the 2020 vision.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE VISION2020
As a way of bringing the vision to life, I chose to present it as a report from the future. The report is set in 2020, a year after the conclusion of the 3 year programme, reflecting on the achievements. So we are reflecting on the completed versions of the vision we are about to start manifesting.

On the 27th of May, I was invited by the Dwars River Tourism office in Pniel to be a speaker at their May networking session. I decided I would record this informal presentation as a tool to help us shape the steps we need to take now toward achieving the vision being reported on.






CLICK HERE TO READ THE VISION2020


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