About the Company:
Travelling Mystery Guest was registered as a company in 2012 after owner and managing director, Renate Engelbrecht, identified a gap in the tourism and hospitality industry for customized quality assessments, workshops and training that are linked to frequent faults in the industry’s customer service standards.
Guests want their visits to destinations to be perfect. Still, many establishments struggle to meet customers’ expectations and often don’t live up to their brand promises.
Travelling Mystery Guest (Pty) Ltd offers tourism and hospitality destinations a variety of services to eliminate negative customer experiences:
“Travelling Mystery Guest is not there to identify flaws, but rather to consult and assist tourism establishments to walk the talk,” says Managing Director, Renate de Villiers. “After doing some research it was clear that the South African tourism industry, but also the global tourism and hospitality industry, is in need of customized destination evaluations, which take into account internal as well as external factors relating to the customer’s journey.”
The types of destinations to whom Travelling Mystery Guest (Pty) Ltd’s services could be advantageous, include bed and breakfasts, guesthouses, boutique and independent hotels, wine farms, self catering apartments, safari lodges, farm accommodation, restaurants, coffee shops, tea gardens and even spas.
With travelling and tourism being the motivation behind Travelling Mystery Guest, it is only natural that your success is our dream. Contact us today for more information


More about Owner and Managing Director, Renate Engelbrecht:
Renate has a four-year degree in Hospitality Management, as well as seven years’ experience in the Hospitality and Tourism industry. She started off as an assistant in guesthouses, working her way up to becoming the manager of a guesthouse at the foot of Table Mountain in Oranjezicht, Cape Town. With a passion for travel writing she has also worked with Travel Writer Carrie Hampton on numerous occasions, as well as the late and well-travelled owner of Sure Etnique Travel, Mr. Johann Beukes.
She has acted as part time lecturer, teaching Tourist Destinations, Travel Services, Travel Operation Procedures and Communications, where after she took up a position as PR and Marketing Campaign Manager with independent travel destinations as clients. She’s travelled to many parts of the country, as well as abroad and experienced numerous types of hospitality and tourism facilities, providing her with ample knowledge of quality service, or the lack thereof.
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