In this weekend’s Daily Maverick 168 my eyes caught an article pertaining to restaurant and bar sales, and how they have performed since February 2020.
Interestingly Take-Away Fast Food sales barely increased, contrary to expectations. Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* SATSA CEO David Frost is concerned about the Department of Home Affairs misleading the tourism industry with incorrect arrival statistics from Statistics South Africa. The Department is using apple-and-pear data (2013 figures inclusive of transit passengers and 2014 figures excluding them), to try to prove that factors other than the new Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Sir David Graaff, owner of De Grendel wine estate and farm, passed away this past weekend.
* SAA claims to be the first airline to offer a credit card payment system in the sky, with its new locally-developed Satellite Authorisation System. The system also will offer an airline tracking service. It will be implemented on all its international flights over time.
* Statistics South Africa has promised to have 2014 tourism arrival statistics available by the end of March. It Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* International airline traffic in November 2014 grew by 3,6% on the year prior, the same level of growth as in October. Travel within Europe grew at a somewhat faster rate, especially to Asian countries.
* The International Monetary Fund has downscaled its forecast for the growth of our country’s economy this year to 2,1%, mainly due to strikes, weak demand, and electricity loadshedding. The growth projection for next year has been downscaled from 2,8 to 2,5%.
* Statistics South Africa has not issued tourism arrival figures since March 2014, awaiting data from the Continue reading →