{"id":50051,"date":"2013-10-23T19:44:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T17:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=50051"},"modified":"2013-10-23T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T17:44:34","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-23-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-23-october\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 23 October"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0 South African born Heston Blumenthal has been named ‘Chef of the Decade<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>‘ by the Observer Food Month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 SA Tourism CEO Thulani Nzima has promised the tourism industry an Indaba 2014<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>that will be ‘an intensely business-focused’<\/em> one. \u00a0He has promised a revamp, which will be ‘relevant and future proof<\/em>‘!<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Beerhouse is organising an Oktobeer Fest on 31 October, from 17h00, at its Long Street premises. \u00a0(received via Facebook)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 SA Tourism and Emirates have signed a Memorandum of Understanding<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for the joint marketing of South Africa, to attract tourists from the Middle East, and also from other countries in the world.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The economies of the UK, Germany, and France<\/strong><\/span><\/a> are improving and the proportion of citizens of these countries who have taken at least one holiday a year is on the rise.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Hannes Storm, winemaker of \u00a0Hamilton Russell Vineyards, will talk about ‘Understanding Pinot Noir’,<\/em> at the Wine Forum at the Wine Village in Hermanus on 5 November. (received via e-mail)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 London’s hospitality industry is suffering the post-Event blues,<\/span> <\/strong><\/a>as did South Africa, Athens and Sydney, with a bookings vacuum and decline after major events such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Research conducted in the USA about traveler reviews<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>shows that 9% fewer reviews were written compared to a year ago, that reviewers were slightly kinder although fewer 5-star ratings were given, that more owner-representatives responded to reviews, and that pricing is not a major source of complaint.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a> \u00a0Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 South African born Heston Blumenthal has been named ‘Chef of the Decade‘ by the Observer Food Month. * \u00a0 SA Tourism CEO Thulani Nzima has promised the tourism industry an Indaba 2014 that will be ‘an intensely business-focused’ one. \u00a0He has promised a revamp, which will be […]<\/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":[7,20517,3,124,1918,266,75,20,22,21,19],"tags":[20518,12573,32378,301,2381,30,3387,560,2721,21823,32377,994,32375,21821,669,20198,8616,21822,5364,429,910,32388,15319,5,21825,561,562,32373,10,365,21824,14212,531],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\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\n\t\t