Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Beer brewing tours are gaining interest, reports Southern African Tourism Update, focusing on craft beers as well as traditional beers. Beer festivals have helped create awareness for the roughly 80 micro-breweries in our country. Tours use stories to get the cultural and brewing message across. American, German, and Belgian tourists are keen beer tourists.
* Air traffic across Europe could be shut down tomorrow, if the planned air traffic controller strike in 28 countries goes ahead. Lufthansa staff have withdrawn from the strike.
* Mamphela Ramphele has accepted the DA’s offer to stand in the forthcoming elections as the Democratic Alliance (DA) Presidential candidate, her Agang SA party appearing to be disbanded. (via Facebook)
* Cape Town may be the flavour of the year media coverage wise, but did not make the Top 100 City Destinations list in 2011, in terms of arrivals, published by Euromonitor International. Johannesburg is ranked 60th. Nairobi is the only other African country on the list, at number 80. Most visited cities are Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Bangkok, Antalya (in Turkey), Shenzhen, New York, and Istanbul.
* The Spur Corporation grew sales by 11%, its Panarottis Pizza Pasta franchise doing particularly well with a 26% growth. The fish chain John Dory’s showed a decline in sales. International revenue increased by 16% compared to 11% local sales growth. Spur Corporation CEO Pierre van Tonder said: ‘The slower retail sales growth in the food and beverage sector in the second half of 2013 is a clear indication that consumers in our target market are feeling the impact of a depressed economy and increasing cost pressures, particularly in the lower end of the market’.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: WhaleCottage
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