{"id":99684,"date":"2016-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelstartblg.wpenginepowered.com\/travelstart-10-years-in\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:53:37","slug":"travelstart-10-years-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelstart.co.za\/blog\/travelstart-10-years-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelstart: 10 Years In&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Last month we celebrated our 10<sup>th<\/sup> birthday in South Africa, and what a celebration it was!<\/h1>\n<p>From a small but suitable spot at The Avalon in Gardens Cape Town, to the four floors of office space on Greenmarket Square that barely houses our current complement of 188 staff, we\u2019ve not only grown during our time in South Africa, we\u2019ve grown up.<\/p>\n<p>As we hit the double digits milestone on the back of an exciting investment by Amadeus Capital earlier this year, we decided that last month would be the biggest that Travelstart has ever seen, and we pulled out all the stops!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55027\" style=\"width: 687px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55027 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/primedia-and-travelstart.jpg\" alt=\"primedia and travelstart\" width=\"697\" height=\"780\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Birthday with love from KFM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cue the biggest sale week we\u2019ve ever had\u2026 Trips to Thailand for only R4999, domestic flights for only R99, we spared no expense to show our customers, fans and advocates just how much we appreciate their support over the last 10 years. Online marketing, offline marketing and of course word of mouth (the best kind of marketing) news of our incredible travel deals spread like wildfire and we spent our 10<sup>th<\/sup> birthday celebrating a record breaking campaign -and the fact that our website didn\u2019t crash once!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55033\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55033\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/travelstart-10th-birthday-deals.jpg\" alt=\"travelstart 10th birthday deals\" width=\"712\" height=\"390\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenth Birthday Party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For team Travelstart, we all conveniently forgot that spring was just around the corner and celebrated like 10 year olds too\u2026 Cake, bubbles and a live broadcast from Primedia and the KFM team, donuts to keep those sugar levels raised during the total anarchy that was our birthday campaign, a celebratory lunch, awesome Travelstart gear, cupcakes from management and even more cupcakes from Amadeus! With full bellies and happy hearts it\u2019s been one heck of a month that we\u2019re all still recovering from\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55028\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55028 \" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/travelstart-donuts.jpg\" alt=\"Travelstart birthday donuts\" width=\"707\" height=\"665\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travelstart Birthday Donuts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For those dreaming of travel, but without the budget to just go, we introduced an addictive competition game called Balloon Beach, where entrants could stand to win holidays, flights, Sony Xperia smartphones, Travelstart vouchers and more worth R100,000 by popping as many balloons as they could before hitting the roof. Revolutionary gaming? Perhaps not. But certainly a huge step up from the usual competition forms we\u2019ve used in the past, plus we got some great feedback and had a lot of fun in the process!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55039\" style=\"width: 688px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55039 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Virgin-airlines-email.jpg\" alt=\"Virgin airlines email\" width=\"698\" height=\"443\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon Beach Feedback from the Virgin Atlantic team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With just 3 more months left in our offices, a place that&#8217;s become\u00a0a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> home for many of us, we\u2019re preparing for a new chapter in the Travelstart story, one that includes room for exponential growth, unbridled creativity, lots of hard work and just as much fun. We\u2019re pre-teens now, which means we\u2019re all about the attitude, big ideas that we want to share with the world and although we have an inkling that we may never know it all, we know what we stand for, and that we\u2019re just getting started!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55030\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55030 \" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/birthday-cheers-1.jpg\" alt=\"Birthday Cheers to Travelstart\" width=\"707\" height=\"707\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheers to a new chapter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we celebrated our 10th birthday in South Africa, and what a celebration it was! 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