Tourism, Food, Wine news headlines

*   Wellington is hosting a food and wine festival on 14 September, it has cleverly called Fork & Cork.

*   The Western Cape is hoping to attract 100000 cycle tourists by 2023, reports Southern Africa Tourism Update, and is working with the Dutch Embassy in conducting an economic impact study.

*   SA Tourism expects tourism growth of 8% from Germany in the next year, lower than the 13% growth achieved in the past year.  Interesting is that 70% of Germans still book their holidays via travel agents, even though they do extensive research about the holiday themselves in the internet.

*   The shares of listed UK travel companies are seeing a drop, due to the UK heatwave, reports TravelMole.

*   BA has developed ‘movie-flavoured popcorn‘ for a film festival to be held in London next week, including ‘shark bite’, ‘shaken and not stirred Martini’, and ‘suncream’ flavours, and may serve them on flights in future. Continue reading →