ALL ABOUT US

OUR APPROACH

We at VIP & Executive Tours South Africa offer a unique service in the local tourist industry:

By sculpturing hand-made personalised itineraries.
By planning in closest consultation with our clients.
By addressing the individual needs and requirements of our clients.
By being guided by our clients personal preferences and hobbies.
By addressing both our clients business and private visitor needs.
By placing a premium on service, quality, excellent food and ambiance
By offering services in English, Afrikaans and German

For this to succeed, we try to establish a close pre-visit contact with you, in order to make 100% sure that we know exactly why you are visiting Southern Africa, how much time you have, what your available budget is and where the priorities have to be placed.

Because of our unique background, being passionately patriotic South Africans, yet very seasoned global travelers, we believe to be able to provide an insight to foreign visitors of what Southern Africa has to offer the world – to provide a balanced perspective of what is and what is most likely to come.

OUR CLIENTS

- The international business executive.
- Politicians and parliamentarians.
- The sophisticated, discerning and demanding global tourist.
- The incentive and conference market, especially add-on programs.
- The gourmets and wine afficionados.

- Those visitors wanting more than just visiting the beautiful sites, wishing to obtain an overview of socio-political and macro-economic scenarios, explained to them by seasoned diplomats with broad international experience.
- Those visitors interested in the arts, culture and history of our country, old-timer and vintage car enthusiasts.
- To sum-up: the V.I.P.’s, expecting only the very best we have to offer.

OUR HISTORY

VIP & Executive Tours is spear-headed by Erik Blumer , who has over 25 years international experience in Europe, Namibia and the United States. With such experience VIP Tours South Africa is able to provide a very broad and varied spectrum of expertise and knowledge.

- Fluent in German, English and Afrikaans.
- A global analyst by profession.
- 22 years in the Diplomatic Service of South Africa.
- Has a passion for old motor vehicles, antiques and classical music.

e-mail: blumer@viptours.info
cell: +27 83 265 7847

MORE ABOUT ERIK

"Hello, I am Erik Blumer, born in 1949 in Würzburg, Germany. My father was a minister of religion of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and was sent to South Africa where I attended primary school. My high school years I spent in Germany again, but matriculated in South Africa. I studied philosophy, psychology and political science at the University of Stellenbosch. And voila, my first posting as a South African diplomat was at the South African Embassy in Bonn, Germany. The first 37 years of my life I virtually commuted between Germany and South Africa.

Then came the most challenging three years in my career, as the Foreign Affairs representative in the Office of the South African Administrator General in Windhoek, implementing UN Resolution 435 for elections and independence of Namibia. After the elections in November 1989 I served as Consul at the South African Consulate General in Chicago, USA. Based on these two experiences, I am well qualified to show you Namibia, one of the largely unknown jewels of Africa, and to attend to our American clients.

After 22 years of service in the Department of Foreign Affairs I moved back to Cape Town, from where in the 50's I started to discover this beautiful country South Africa.

Because of my great passion in life for old motor vehicles, antiques and classical music, I hope to be able to package your very own signature tour for you to Southern Africa involving these and many of the other special interests you may have. ' Wo man singt, da lass Dich ruhig nieder. Böse Menschen singen keine Lieder '(Settle where your heart sings). I settled in Cape Town for this reason, the beauty of this city and surroundings makes my heart sing".

Erik Blumer