Influential travel publication Condé Nast Traveler has announced its 2015 Readers Choice Top 15 Food Cities in the World. For the first time Cape Town is at the top of the list! Continue reading →
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Cape Town drops 10 places in Top 25 TripAdvisor 2016 Travelers’ Choice World Destination!
Cape Town has dropped to the 20th position in the TripAdvisor 2016 Travelers’ Choice Top 25 World Destinations list, from 10th last year, despite the extremely favourable exchange rate offered to tourists by our city. No explanation for the massive ranking drop is provided. and may be due to the stringent Visa Regulations!
The TripAdvisor 2016 Travelers’ Choice Awards World Destinations list has just been published: Continue reading →
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 3 February
Tourism, Food, and Whale news headlines
* A short-lived marriage between the DA and Agang came to an end yesterday, Mamphela Ramphele withdrawing her collaboration with the DA in standing as their Presidential candidate! On Social Media the two parties’ collaboration was welcomed, and described as a breath of fresh air in South African politics. Since yesterday, both women leaders of the two parties have been slated, Helen Zille for her lack of judgement in collaborating with Ramphele, and Ramphele for not honouring her agreement with the DA.
* Cutting SAA routes (such as Buenos Aires, and London/Cape Town) is detrimental to the tourism industry at a time when the weak Rand is increasing interest amongst travellers in visiting our country.
* Nando’s is using Mobile Social Media for its ‘This time of year nobody should have to eat alone’ campaign for the first time, Mxit reaching 6,5 million users spending 95 minutes on the medium on average per day.
* The South African Brandy Foundation is hosting two Fine Brandy Fusion events this year, from 22 – 23 Continue reading →
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 29 January
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* The first ever African marketing office of SA Tourism was opened yesterday in Lagos in Nigeria, by our Minister of Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk. Not only will this be good for tourism for our country, but it also aims to create greater awareness and to attract more tourists to Africa globally.
* The Reserve Bank has increased the interest rate by 50 basis points, the first increase in five years, to curb inflation caused by the weak Rand.
* SAA made a loss of R991 million in the 2012/2013 financial year, an improvement on its previous loss of R1,25 billion in the previous financial year. It blames the loss on the ‘weakened rand‘, as 60% of its costs are dollar based. It announced today that had the Rand not weakened, SAA would have made a profit! Cost-cutting efforts have been cutting the Kigali (to Rwanda) and Buenos Aires routes. All long-distance routes are loss-making, admitted CEO Monwabisi Kalawe, but have to be retained for strategic reasons, such as Beijing.
* The USA has close to 8000 wineries, of which just less than half are in California, by far the dominant wine production state. South Africa has about one tenth of this number!
* The 9000 participants in the Travel Weekly’s Readers’ Choice Awards voted South Africa as the best Continue reading →