{"id":51592,"date":"2013-12-01T21:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=51592"},"modified":"2013-12-01T21:28:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T19:28:25","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-30-november1-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-30-november1-december\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 30 November\/1 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0Restaurant news dominated the list of most read\u00a0blogposts on our WhaleTales blog in November, the\u00a0Eat Out<\/strong>\u00a0Top 10 Restaurant Awards write-up being by far the most popular blogpost:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Eat Out Top 10 Restaurant Awards: best event ever, some highs, some shocks!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Mother Nature hits Mother City and the Winelands!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

3. \u00a0 South African hotelier slates TripAdvisor and its blackmail power!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

4. \u00a0 Mediclinic Vergelegen Sweet Service and Giorgio Nava Sour Service Awards!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

5. \u00a0 Restaurant Review: La Parada\u00a0Bar de Tapas Bree Street is Espanol puro!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 A new hospitality consulting company PMR Hospitality Partners has been created by industry stalwarts Tony Romer-Lee and Euan McGlashan. \u00a0Their newest venture is PMR Hospitality Partners. \u00a0The media release describes the company as a ‘\u00a0boutique African hospitality management company based in Cape Town, South Africa and Atlanta, USA, through its sister firm, Valor Hospitality Partners (www.valorhospitality.com)<\/em>‘. \u00a0Romer-Lee has worked for McGrath Hotels, and before that both partners worked at the Cape Grace, and Halcyon Hotels, which previously owned the Bay Hotel.<\/p>\n

The focus will be on quality customer service, driven by PMR’s on-time\/on-budget ethos. Services offered include\u00a0‘due diligence, design and development, operations, management, sales, marketing and PR, human resources and financial management, deal underwriting, revenue generation, cost and expense controls all culminating in profitability maximisation. Services also include site selection entitlements, conceptual design, construction and project management, procurement, technical services, pre-opening management, and total operations management<\/em>‘. (received via media release from Waterford Communications)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>* \u00a0\u00a0A new electronic cigarette smoking lounge<\/strong><\/a> has opened at Heathrow, the first of its kind.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The Ministers of Tourism of the SADC<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (Southern African Development Community), including from South Africa, are meeting in Mozambique to discuss matters of common interest.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0\u00a0The International Public Relations Association World Congress<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>will be held in Johannesburg from 27 – 29 September 2015. About 500 international delegates are expected.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Etihad Airlines of the United Arab Emirates<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>has won the World’s Leading Airline for the fifth year running, as well as World’s Leading First Class, and World’s Leading Airline Cabin Crew awards at the World Travel Awards.<\/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 * \u00a0Restaurant news dominated the list of most read\u00a0blogposts on our WhaleTales blog in November, the\u00a0Eat Out\u00a0Top 10 Restaurant Awards write-up being by far the most popular blogpost: 1. \u00a0Eat Out Top 10 Restaurant Awards: best event ever, some highs, some shocks! 2. \u00a0Mother Nature hits Mother City and […]<\/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":[7,3,124,266,20,22,21,19],"tags":[110,32378,18211,22661,22655,30,1437,22658,22660,22653,22657,22652,188,22654,3625,19975,22659,12563,5,1086,22656,18720,32373,10,1528,365,32382,1327],"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