About KDR Sports and Adventure Travel Pty Ltd

KDR Sports and Adventure Travel Pty Ltd was established in Oct 2001 with a view to specialising in Inbound and Outbound sports supporter and team tours using the website www.sportstravel.co.za
Having to add packages on to the sports tours for both local teams going overseas and overseas teams coming here, led to us offering a traditional travel service for the outbound market and a tour operator section for clients coming to South Africa.

The office grew from small beginnings with offices first in Fourways, which then moved to Randburg, Johannesburg and then in 2004 an office in KwaZulu Natal was also opened.

KDR are members of SATSA (South African Tourism Services Association - member number 1182) and Sotoda (Soweto Tourism Association)

Tour Operator - Soweto
With the acquisition of www.soweto.co.za we tried to act as travel agents for existing tour companies. Unfortunately we found that there were too many companies offering you a drive through tour with a view of Soweto through a bus window and a quick lunch at one of the restaurants before you were rushed back to your hotel room
No tour companies offered a "complete" tour of Soweto.

There was also a lack of information on Soweto. There was no tourism authority (One has now been formed - (2004 - Sotoda)) and people didn't know how to get into contact with the right people in Soweto except through a string of tour companies and intermediaries - some less than reputable.

Denis (one of the partners in KDR), who had been involved with housing and "upliftment" projects in Soweto for many years, gathered together a few role players and we started gathering information. Then we put our own tours together with Denis as the tour guide.
The tours focused on getting people out of the vehicles and into the markets, the hostels, the squatter camps and into some real shebeen's (local bars)
We met Thamsanqa Ndimande (Thami) who also shared the view that a lot of tours were not experiential enough and started using him on some of our tours. He was soon permanently employed by us and now heads up all our tours and the marketing of the tours.
When we took people to a squatter camp we used Mshengeuville in the Mofolo area. We soon realised that apart from just paying them to let us take clients around their homes, there was far more we could do and a lot more that our clients wanted to do.
We have since sponsored a soccer team, bought a Zozo hut for the kids to play in, Sponsor a creche and have helped organise an "Edutainer" for the creche to have classes in, put together lots of clothes and food drives and taken the kids on outings to places they have never been before like nature reserves.

Tour Operator - Inbound
With having to "add on" tours for sports groups and supporters coming in from overseas, we were getting more and more referrals from the individuals. The logical next step was to start advertising itineraries to clients overseas using our network of websites.
Being and internet based tour operator , without having to rely on shop frontage or expensive brochure and magazine campaigns has also allowed us to keep our commissions low. We do not represent or promote any lodges on this website that will offer a lower rate by going direct.
We offer a professional tour operator service where we can advise on the best itinerancies that include local transfers, charter and scheduled flights, car hire and day tours. You pay one operator for everything (except your inbound flights) and we organise the rest for you.

KDR now has consultants in Jo'burg and Durban who can quote on anything from Battlefields tours in the Natal midlands to Golf tours along the Garden route and 2 week + countrywide tours.