Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Perfect China is sending 700 of its salespersons to Cape Town next month. The collaboration between Perfect China, and Leopard’s Leap/La Motte was born from a friendship between the two companies’ leaders and their complementary focus on social responsibility.
* Australia, the USA, and South Africa export more than half of their wines in bulk, and bottle them in the countries in which they are sold.
* Close to 800000 Botswana residents visit South Africa annually, a market which SA Tourism, is targeting.
* The Overstrand Municipality is spending more than R6000000 in its 2013/2014 financial year in support of a number of events, its major support going to the Kalfie Fees which was held over the Women’s Day long weekend, the Hermanus Whale Festival in September, and the Big Blues Music Festival in March. Ten other festivals in Stanford, Gansbaai, Pringle Bay, and Hangklip form part of the Municipality’s support of events. (via Overstrand Bulletin).
* The UK is pushing the European Union to allow the minimum alcohol level of wine to be reduced from 8,5 to 4,5%, due to the country’s growing problem of alcoholism and alcohol-related diseases. This has not been thought of by our Western Cape province, which curtailed opening hours of retail sales (but appears to be lengthening them again), and the national government, which wants to ban the marketing of all alcohol.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage
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