Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Premium South African wines are increasingly being exported to other African countries, Nigeria in particular, as well as to Ghana, Angola, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
* American travelers are likely to rate service satisfaction highest, and the Japanese tourists the lowest, with French, German, Italian, Spanish and British tourists falling in between these satisfaction rating spectrums. This finding comes from a multicountry service satisfaction study conducted amongst a sample of 200000 travelers.
* We have it all wrong – the most popular travel time for the UK and German market is August, tourists taking about 10 days off, and traveling to the Balearic islands, Turkey, or Greece in Europe, and Mexico on long haul trips, a TUI study of its bookings for 2013 has found.
* ACSA is planning to introduce a service whereby one can buy duty-free goods on departure at Cape Town International, OR Thambo and King Shaka International airports , and pick them up on arrival before going through Customs.
* A new ‘Whale Spotter’ app has been developed to help reduce the number of collisions between ships and whales off the California coast. The app will rely on whale sighting input by others.
* In a joint venture between Gauteng Tourism and the Tourism Business Council of South Africa an inaugural travel and tourism conference called ‘THE SUMMIT” will be held in Johannesburg on 14 and 15 October. The focus will be the improvement of our tourism industry’s competitiveness, so as to grow our tourism industry. Surprising is the short lead time for the Conference, being announced less than a month before it is hosted, and falling into the start of the summer season, when it could have been held in the very quiet winter. The theme of The Summit is ‘Value of the traveller’, and speakers include trends commentator and CEO of Fluxtrend Dion Chang; Chris Buckingham, Director of Go/To.P.L from Melbourne in Australia; Eric Xayiya, Gauteng MEC for Economic Development; and Thulani Nzima CEO of SA Tourism. (via e-mail from the Tourism Business Council of South Africa)
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage
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