{"id":51692,"date":"2013-12-03T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=51692"},"modified":"2013-12-03T15:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:27:17","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-23-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-23-december\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 2\/3 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0The Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) is planning to extend the runway at Cape Town International<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, to allow larger aircraft and more planes to land.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 About one fifth of accommodation bookings in the USA will be last minute, same day ones<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>next year, made via smartphone or tablet.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 While European traveller numbers are showing a small 2% growth, the fact that they are taking more shorter and shorter distance holidays<\/strong><\/span><\/a> rather than long haul ones is worrying for tourism to South Africa.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 hotel.info has beaten<\/span><\/strong><\/a> TripAdvisor, British Airways, Expedia and booking.com in being named most popular travel and leisure website of the year.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Cybercellar has sold a 24% share of its business to Silvertree Capital,<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the internet wine ordering and delivery company representing 3800 wines.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 To counter an anticipated decline in tourists to Durban, the local municipality is embarking on an aggressive R10 million marketing plan<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>to attract more tourism business to the city, a major threat to Cape Town, for which little to no marketing is happening. \u00a0Events are one of Durban’s key tourism revenue sources.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Simonsig’s MCCs can now be paired with cakes, the idea of its winemaker Hannes Meyer. \u00a0He has paired the\u00a0Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel 2010 with carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting; \u00a0<\/span>Kaapse Vonkel Brut Ros\u00e9 \u00a0is paired with a blueberry and lemon Madeleine; while the C<\/span>uv\u00e9e Royale 2010\u00a0<\/span>is paired with lemon poppy seed cake crowned with lemon curd. R50 per person. (received via media release from GC Communications)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Four Mantis hotel portfolio properties were honoured at the World Travel Awards:<\/p>\n