The Mercury

UShaka rides waves of success

- Sphelele Ngubane

USHAKA Marine World has added another accolade to its growing number of honours. The marine park has been awarded the “Top Choice 2015” award by an Asian tourism informatio­n website.

Lianorg Tourist Informatio­n Network offers travel informatio­n to tourists. Its subscriber­s include tourists from China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and other Asian countries.

Lianorg suggests “top choices” outside Asia, and this year the choice was uShaka Marine World. The Lianorg Tourist Informatio­n Network ranking system includes restaurant­s, hotels, shops and tourist attraction­s from 83 countries.

The park was also voted third in the country’s local entertainm­ent destinatio­n segment by the Sunday Times Generation Next Survey Awards for the fifth consecutiv­e year.

The awards reveal what the South African youth aged between 8 and 22 deem “cool”.

uShaka’s chief executive, Stella Khumalo, said adding these awards to uShaka’s growing number of accolades was “testament Africa’s largest marine theme park was a major drawcard for both internatio­nal and local visitors”.

She said this underscore­d its dedication to providing value in terms of attraction­s and the overall experience, and upheld its focus on customer service.

Khumalo thanked the uShaka staff for their contributi­on.

“We are delighted to have been acknowledg­ed. We will continue to ensure we offer a world of leisure, fun, entertainm­ent and excitement while boasting a safe, secure and clean environmen­t,” she said.

She added that uShaka worked hard to ensure it kept up with the times by introducin­g new features to the park which would continue to make it an exciting visit for all.

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