About KDR
KDR Sports and Adventure Travel Pty Ltd was established in Aug 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 tours both locally and overseas 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 starting originally from a spare room in Fourways, which then moved to a small office in Randburg, Johannesburg then to a bigger office next door then to using both.
In 2004 an office in KwaZulu Natal was also opened when Richard decided to move back to Sharks territory.

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

Inbound Travel:

Coming to Southern Africa and need an itinerary put together to suit you, then contact us with your details, needs, preferences and budget and we will put a tour togther that will knock your socks off.

Outbound travel:

Ask one of our consultants for details on our package holidays around the world. From "sailing" around England in a barge to spending a week in Greece we will have a holiday that will suit you and your budget.

Tour Operator - Soweto
With the aquisition 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 headed up all our leisure 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 in Mshenguville and another one at one of the hostels. With the help of Bright Kids Foundation and various others we have helped organise "Edutainers" for the creches 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 goups 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.

KDR now has consultants in Joburg 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 staying at everything from 5* luxury hotels and game lodges to mid range guesthouses.

KDR October 2011 to present

The three directors of KDR Sports and Adventure Travel Pty Ltd took a decision to split the company into 2 distinct business'. The office in Durban would retain the current business structure but the Joburg office would now concentrate on it's Sports tour, Soweto tour and Guesthouse business.

While the offices both retain the KDR Travel and Tours branding, management and ownership are kept completely seperate.

Durban Director
Richard Mullin