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Summer with a V
It’s rest and reward. It’s family reunited. It tastes of braais, spicy pineapples, freshly-brewed coffee sunrises... and it feels like long beach days and mountain views.
Are you ready to #LivelifewithVitality this summer? We’ve got your holiday fitness, fun and lots more… covered.
SWIM
You loved them so much last year that we’re bringing them back. Our Vitality beach towels, men’s swimming shorts and new kids’ swim shorts designed in partnership with summer-loving brand, Granadilla. All of which are available on Vitality Active Rewards.
LIVIN’
Look out for us and our new umbrellas at select beaches around the country. Plus, you can stay fit with online and in-person fitness activations all through December.
The best bit? You can do it all in our new Team Vitality gear.
FITNESS FUN
Travel docs – tick. Toiletries – tick. Luggage – tick. Don’t forget one last thing: your exercise goals. We’ve put together our favourite workouts to keep you active this holiday season.
We look forward to seeing your summer holiday selfies, so remember to tag us and use #SummerwithaV and #DiscoveryBankBestHoliday to stand a chance to win big.
Visit discovery.co.za to find out more ways to celebrate Summer with Vitality Travel.
WIN free Flights for a year
Now’s your chance to make it a year of Vitality Travel with Discovery Bank, who is giving away a year’s worth of flights. That’s two free flights a month for twelve months – to one lucky winner and their partner.
As a Discovery Bank client you get an automatic entry into the prize draw! And there are more ways to increase your chances of winning:
- Earn another entry into the draw for every R250 (per transaction) you spend on your physical or virtual Discovery Bank or debit card (in-store or online purchases).
- Get 10 additional entries when you book flights, holiday accommodation or car hire on the Vitality Travel platform.
Book Smart
Adopt this healthy habit on your summer holiday
You’ve probably read somewhere that successful business leaders are ferocious readers. How after a day looking at spreadsheets and answering emails they tend to the pile of books on the nightstand. Read on, because despite an overbooked schedule, leading execs make time to read so that they can keep up with the fast-moving and ever-changing world. But what are they reading?
“Read anything that isn’t on the internet… including this magazine.” Says Bruce Whitfield, award-winning financial journalist and host of the The Money Show. “If everything you know is informed by your smartphone, you’re missing a lot.”
The ANC Billionaires – Big Capital’s Gambit And The Rise Of The Few – Pieter du Toit
“This is a great book because we have forgotten where we come from. We think we know but we don’t know. And the present should not be informed by what we think we know in the past. People have forgotten what a massively powerful military machine South Africa was during apartheid and what the liberation movement was up against. It is absolutely critical to read these stories and understand the political compromises that had to be made, what happened in our economy as a result and how we got here today.”
Act of Oblivion– Robert Harris
“More than anything, this informs my understanding of the polarised and religious component of the US and settler culture which informs so much of today’s politics.
It is also entertaining, a cops and robbers chase through the 1600s.”
By his own confession, the CEO of Discovery Bank always has a stack of books on his desk. Along with Bruce’s Genuis, these titles made his year-end list for 2022.
