Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* South Africa has three entries on The Daily Beast‘s 12 best travel places to visit in 2014: the Bascule Bar at the Cape Grace hotel; the Kwandwe Private Game Reserve; and wine tasting at Groot Constantia. The American website has 15 million unique visitors per month!
* Another hotel is to be built in the V&A Waterfront, described by the retail development as a ‘mid-market, internationally branded hotel‘, according to the SA Tourism website, which erroneously wrote in his headline: ‘New hotel slated (sic) for V&A‘! The V&A claims to receive 24 million visitors per year (without explaining how this number is measured), and to have contributed R200 billion to the country’s GDP in the past ten years! The retail and entertainment area already has six 5 star, two 4 star, and two 3 star hotels.
* Solar storms are expected, and could influence GPS settings, power grids, and airline and military communications.
* Qantas is the safest airline in the world, out of 448 monitored. The other safest airlines are Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Eva Air, Royal Jordanian, Singapore Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic.
* The Huffington Post features a wishlist to make airline travel more comfortable and enjoyable, which includes: a la carte tickets, paying for what one wants; electronic boarding passes; landing on time; be able to surf the web on board for free, and fast; refunding baggage fees when the bags get lost; show all seats available on a seat map; and responding to complaints.
* The Absolut Black Box is being launched around the country, to showcase art and change viewers’ reality about the work of four ‘transformative South African artists‘ Stu Shapiro, Angelo, Falko, and We Set Sail. The Black Box installations will move between 20 nightclubs around the country over the year. (received via media release from Capacity Public Relations)
* Redecorated Views Restaurant has opened at the Views Boutique Hotel & Spa in Wilderness on the Garden Route. (received via Nicky Arthur PR)
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage
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