Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Adderley Street will undergo construction work for the MyCiTi Bus this month, the City of Cape Town warns.
* Clever is the new campaign to collect and used soap from hotels, to give to underprivileged families. One hopes that the campaign will spread to South Africa too.
* Arniston Bay has launched its first two infused wines: Arniston Bay Graviola and Passion Fruit Infusion, and Arniston Bay Mint Aloe and Lemongrass Infusion. The new wines have a screwcap, are low in alchohol at 5,5%, and are lightly spritzed. Packaging is 100% recyclable. They cost around R44. (via media release from Hazell PR and Wine Consultants)
* Wine bloggers in the USA and Canada have a strong influence on wine buying in those countries, 300 bloggers were told at a wine blogging conference in Canada, in which WOSA (Wines of South Africa) was involved, and they are increasingly writing about South African wines.
* Twitter has been used to ‘research’ restaurants in New York City that are most associated with food poisoning, and found 120 such restaurants, correlating with poor hygiene as found by the city’s health inspectors!
* Who owns the Twitter account when the staff member leaves? Three case studies show that usually the account belongs to the employer. Cape Town Tourism has allowed its two former staff members and dominant Tweeters, Mariette du Toit-Helmbold (5621 followers) and Skye Grove (6893 followers), to leave the company with their Twitter accounts, even though they were opened during their employ at Cape Town Tourism, carried their job titles, and the link to the Cape Town Tourism website. Mrs Helmbold specifically should have handed over her account, as she has started her own tourism consultancy Destinate, which one could say is partly competitive to Cape Town Tourism.
* Catching crayfish should be banned for 10 years so that stocks can be replenished, says Judith Sole, the leader of the Green Party, reports The Times. Ms Sole and her party feel so strongly about this that they have taken Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson to court about what she believes is the most ‘critically endangered species‘. Despite losing the case, Ms Sole is appealing the ruling.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage
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