{"id":50487,"date":"2013-11-03T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=50487"},"modified":"2013-11-03T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T13:53:56","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-23-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-23-november\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 2\/3 November"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0 Mark Shuttleworth may be the large Moyo investo<\/strong><\/span><\/a>r who has forced the restaurant group to be placed under business review.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The 17th Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa<\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> with 10000 delegates,\u00a0will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 7 – 10 December.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Warwick Wines has added its Twitter handle @WarwickWine to its corks, in anticipation of the New York Stock Exchange listing of Twitter. (received via media release from Hazell PR and Wine Consultants)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Nick Compton, editor of design magazine Wallpaper<\/strong>, \u00a0is running a Twitter competition, requesting photographs of the best of South African art and design, to tie in with World Travel Market (WTM)<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>this week.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The Kimberley Diamond Cup<\/strong><\/span><\/a> world skateboarding championships have just been held in Kimberley.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Cape Town<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>has been named Africa’s Leading Meetings and Conference Destination, and its The Westin Cape Town the continent’s Leading Conference Hotel. \u00a0SAA won Africa’s Leading Airline, and O.R. Thambo leading airport in Africa.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Wines of South AFrica (WOSA) is hosting a Braai Tour :\u00a0Los Angeles<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>today, with AA Badenhorst and MAN some of the wines available to taste. South African\/Californian food will be served with the BBQ.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Richard Kelly rescues ‘precious vinous orphans’<\/em>, being South African wines, and repackages them with The Liberator wine label<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Cape Town has lost out on a number of matches when the Indian cricket team visits from the end of November. \u00a0A total of 15 matches has been cut down to five, and none will be played at Newlands<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, due to a dispute between the visiting team and Cricket South Africa, it is reported. \u00a0This has serious tourism implications, Wesgro CEO Nils Flaatten said.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 SA Tourism has put its global marketing communications<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>out to tender, divided into sections: \u00a0formulating a global marketing business strategy for 2015-2020; the buying and placement of media; execution; and providing an on-line solution or platform. \u00a0The services required are\u00a0above-the-line advertising, below-the-line advertising, PR, digital, mobile, content, and social media.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Sommelier Kayetan Meissner of Bosman’s at the Grande Roche has won the Bollinger Exceptional Wine Service Award 2013. \u00a0The two runners up are\u00a0\u00a0Barry Scholfield, Assistant Sommelier at Rust en Vrede, and Xolani Mancotywa, previously Sommelier at the Saxon Boutique Hotel in Johannesburg and now Sommelier at Capital Club Dubai. \u00a0Judges were Ginette de Fleuriot of Vinimark The Wine Company, Neil Grant of Burrata and Chairman of the Sommelier Association of South Africa, Consultant and Sommelier Higgo Jacobs, and Consultant Kent Scheermeyer. (received via media release from Hazell PR and Wine Consultants)<\/p>\n

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

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