Who we are
Visit Citrusdal is run by Telos Web Dev (Pty) Ltd, a South African web studio that builds and hosts websites for small businesses. We are not the official tourism bureau, the tourism association or the municipality, and we are not connected to citrusdaltourism.co.za. The disclaimer sets that out in full.
Where our facts come from
From the business itself, its own website, or a public body such as CapeNature or the municipality, never from a copied directory. When we could not confirm a detail, the page says "not confirmed yet" rather than presenting a guess as fact.
A few rules we hold to:
- Opening hours come only from a business's own website or store finder (for a clinic or police station, the government's own page), with the date we checked printed underneath.
- Road distances are routed on OpenStreetMap data, so every page quotes the same figure: 176 km from Cape Town.
- Hiking times are the ones the landowner or CapeNature publishes. We do not grade trails, and a distance nobody publishes stays blank.
- Prices appear only where the business has published them, with the season they apply to.
What "Confirmed by the owner" means
The badge says who the details came from and when: the business checked its page and told us it is right, in the month shown. It is not a rating or a recommendation. A page without one means only that we have not heard from that business lately.
Who pays for what
Nobody pays to be listed, and nobody pays for a better position. We take no bookings and no commission. When you contact a business, that is between you and them.
The one paid spot on the site is Featured on the noticeboard, and it always says "Featured" wherever it appears.
Photographs
Every photograph is credited on the photo credits page. Businesses' own photographs appear only with their permission. Some pages still use stock photography while we gather pictures of the valley itself, and the credits page lists those too. We never use an AI-generated picture to show a real place, person or business.
What we count
We count page views and taps through to businesses with our own counter. It sets no cookie, stores no IP address and gives you no identifier. The privacy notice explains exactly what is kept.
Linking to your page
If your business is listed here, a link from your own website to your page helps people find both of us. Use the address of your page, and any wording you like, for example:
<a href="https://visitcitrusdal.com/listing/your-business/">Find us on Visit Citrusdal</a>Not sure of your page's address? Ask us and we will send it.
Something wrong, or missing?
If you run a business here, you can correct your listing, add a business or ask us to remove one, at no charge. For anything else, get in touch.