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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 20 August

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*   Knysna Fine Arts will be curating art exhibitions at Grande Provence as of 1 September. (via e-mail from Grande Provence)

*   The Südafrika Weinshow will be held at the SA Embassy in Berlin on 7 and 8 September, with 40 wine estates and 10 wine importers offering 500 wines to taste.

*   Tourists from the USA, UK, and Russia take the cake in being the most undesirable tourism source countries, an international survey has found.

*   Bouchard Finlayson Galpin Peak Pinot Noir 2011 will be served in Lufthansa’s Continue reading →

WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 27/28 July

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*  A beautiful and informative coffee table book about chocolate has been written by Di Burger, called ‘Chocolate’s African Odyssey‘,  reports WineStyle.

*   Eleven finalists of The Wines of South Africa (WOSA) Sommelier Cup, from a diversity of countries including China and Russia, have been shortlisted.

*   The Spur Corporation, which owns Spur Steak Ranches, Panarottis Pizza Pasta, and John Dory’s Fish & Grill, has grown sales by 16% in the past twelves months ending June, its advertising (by Haas) driving feet into their restaurants.

*   Chinese tourists are ‘smitten by the charms of Africa’.  Direct SAA flights between Johannesburg and Beijing as well as visa processing centres in Beijing and Shanghai have pushed China as a tourism source market for our country into fourth position! Continue reading →