{"id":47111,"date":"2013-08-16T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=47111"},"modified":"2013-08-16T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:34:55","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-16-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-16-august\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 16 August"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhaleTales\"<\/a>Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Mango<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>is rolling out new lighter seats, giving 6 – 7,5 cm more legroom on its flights, and reducing carbon emissions!<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The Cederberg Bukettraube 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is highly praised, even though the writer cannot spell the name of the variety!<\/p>\n

* \u00a0Nigeria is the second fastest growing Champagne<\/strong><\/span><\/a> market in the world, and sells about 750000 bottles per year, more than sales in Russia and Mexico. \u00a0It is in the Top 20 of world champagne sales, and is the largest seller of the noble bubbly in Africa, followed by South Africa.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The City of Cape Town has embarked on a \u00a0R300000 project to improve street name signage<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, with street numbers per block specified, and has added 130 \u00a0motorcycle bays as well as 35 disabled parking bays, to help reduce the wastage of petrol in driving unnecessarily to find addresses.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Coca Cola is the country’s favourite brand, and received the accolade at the Sunday Times Top Brands Survey 2013<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0awards ceremony last night.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Germany has issued a travel advisory to its citizens reports its news channel ZDF<\/strong>, discouraging all travel in all of Egypt until mid-September. \u00a0Will this benefit tourism to South Africa?<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com \u00a0<\/a>Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 Mango is rolling out new lighter seats, giving 6 – 7,5 cm more legroom on its flights, and reducing carbon emissions! * \u00a0 The Cederberg Bukettraube 2012 is highly praised, even though the writer cannot spell the name of the variety! * \u00a0Nigeria is the second fastest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,266,22,21,19],"tags":[20356,184,32378,257,2455,20359,20361,30,560,14694,20358,4989,32388,20357,20360,5,32373,10,365,748],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t