{"id":49191,"date":"2013-10-01T19:22:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=49191"},"modified":"2013-10-03T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T19:25:55","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-1-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-1-october\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 1 October"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0 A 13-series ‘5 Sterre met Reuben<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>‘ launched on kykNET<\/strong> today, with Chef Reuben Riffel cooking a three course meal, paired to a wine, and chatting to a product sponsor. \u00a0The program will air on Tuesdays at 17h30.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The last three MasterChef SA blogposts we wrote received record viewership in September, the blog achieving a record of almost 40000 unique pageviews), according to Google Analytics. The most read blogposts were the\u00a0prediction of a controversial MasterChef SA end<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Ozzy Osman’s controversial elimination<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and Kamini Pather’s controversial win<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. \u00a0The competition we ran to predict the MasterChef SA winner<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>also featured on the top blogpost list, as did our review of La Parada on Bree<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, the Winter Restaurant specials<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, the recent restaurant openings and closures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, the ‘Mickey Mouse’ training<\/strong><\/span><\/a> done by Disney before the 2010 World Cup (blogpost written more than three years ago!), and the review of the new KOI Bantry Bay Restaurant<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Reuben Riffel’s Reuben’s Abalone House opened in Paternoster today. (via media release from Manley Communications)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Trade mark issues make it very difficult to trade in China, as the country allows trade marks to be registered, even if they already exist and are registered elsewhere in the world, as this wine case study<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>shows.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Tourists tend to plan their next trip<\/strong><\/span><\/a> directly after returning from their holiday.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Google is using an algorithm called ‘Hummingbird<\/em>‘<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>to make searches more relevant, in that it takes more words in a query into account, instead of only focusing on key words.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Michael Jordaan, former CEO of First National Bank, is the new Chairman of Mxit<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, South Africa’s ‘most engaging’<\/em> social network, with 7,4 million active users.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Durbanville Hills is celebrating Halloween on 31 October with a difference, with a 5 km and 10 km ‘Chase the Sunset Trail Run<\/em>‘, preferably in Halloween outfits! \u00a0The trail route runs through the vineyards. (via media release from De Kock Communications)<\/p>\n

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

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 A 13-series ‘5 Sterre met Reuben‘ launched on kykNET today, with Chef Reuben Riffel cooking a three course meal, paired to a wine, and chatting to a product sponsor. \u00a0The program will air on Tuesdays at 17h30. * \u00a0 The last three MasterChef SA blogposts we wrote […]<\/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":[3,124,5794,587,266,20,22,21,19,11],"tags":[21355,9477,2152,32378,19280,82,4910,889,30,287,6759,21359,4312,21358,19367,21356,4861,18751,8154,32404,16111,4578,19469,1347,20693,5,21357,32373,10,365,6031,32368],"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