South African National Parks (SANParks) supported by First National Bank (FNB) recognised deserving Parks and staff members at their 9th annual Kudu Awards ceremony held at the CSIR Convention Centre in Pretoria earlier this month.
Addo Elephant National Park’s Main Camp won the Chief Executive’s Award for the Best Performing Camp in the 2012/2013 Financial Year. Some of their achievements during this time were an increase in visitors of 15.7% from 102 566 to 121 724, a bed occupancy of 69.3% – the highest of all national parks and a camping occupancy of 74.4% – also the highest of all national parks. A total of 26 907 game drives were sold, which was the highest activities sold per 100 overnight guests of all national parks. These are just a few of the camp’s accomplishments over the 2012/2013, proving that they were, indeed, worthy winners.
All had been winners in the organisation’s regional awards ceremony in June this year, and so qualified to be entered into the prestigious national awards.
SANParks CEO, Dr David Mabunda, said “The Chief Executive Awards is an important initiative that recognises internal stakeholders for efforts in making South African National Parks the custodian of choice for the national parks system”.