{"id":62108,"date":"2014-09-29T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=62108"},"modified":"2014-09-30T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T09:36:04","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-29-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-29-september\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 29 September"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0 ‘The Bachelor’ Australia is featuring Cape Town<\/em><\/span><\/a> <\/strong>(with Table Mountain), the Winelands, and Pilanesberg Game Reserve in the last two episodes of the dating series, in which bachelor Blake Garvey shows the final three dates the beauty of the Cape. \u00a0The series has been produced by Channel Ten in Australia, in conjunction with the Australia country office of SA Tourism. \u00a0The publicity shot appears to have been taken at Delaire Graff. \u00a0Three complete series of ‘Der Bachelor<\/em>‘ Germany have been shot in Camps Bay in the past three years.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Brazil and South Afric<\/strong><\/span><\/a>a<\/strong><\/span><\/a> last week, to enhance the tourism relationship between the two countries. \u00a0Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom visited Sao Paulo to attend the opening of the new SA Tourism office in that city, and to visit the ABAV Travel Tradeshow. \u00a0Brazil is the last of the BRICS countries with which South Africa has signed such a Memorandum of Understanding. \u00a0Last year tourism from South Africa grew by 8%, and from Brazil close to 6%.<\/p>\n

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* \u00a0 South African winemakers are getting younger, writes\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/b>‘s Will Lyons, agreeing with UK wine writer Tim Atkin. \u00a0For example Klein Constantia winemaker Matthew Day is only 29 years old, yet has worked in Bordeaux, the Barossa Valley, and in Napa. \u00a0Recently in London, Day told the writer that ‘there’s a new, revived energy in the South African wine industry at the moment<\/i>‘. \u00a0Day says that the old style of heavy oaking and adding sulphur are over, the emphasis being on freshness. \u00a0The headline to the article asks:\u00a0‘Is Stellenbosch the new Saint-\u00c8milion?<\/i>‘ and the subtitle boldly praises: ‘An influx of new talent is pushing to\u00a0make South African wines some of the very best in the world’<\/b><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The G7 Foreign Ministers issued a\u00a0joint statement in Berlin last week about the Ebola disease<\/b><\/a>, expressing their concern about the fast spread of the disease in West Africa, and deploring that there is no cure against the virus yet. \u00a0The disease was described as ‘common global threat to peace and security<\/i>‘. \u00a0Attempts to curb the virus from spreading further are supported, and a call was made for more financial support to combat the virus. \u00a0 Tourism to our country has been affected by the fear that the virus may be in our country too, just because we also live on the African continent!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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* \u00a0 Locals want lower-priced roaming when traveling overseas<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a study has shown. \u00a0Samsung, iPhone and BlackBerry are the top three smartphone types locals use when they travel. When traveling internationally, 25% buy a local SIM card, 21% only connect where wifi is available, 19% use only an SMS service, 7% switch off their phones, and 21% retain all their mobile services.<\/p>\n

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Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0<\/span>www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 Twitter:<\/span>@WhaleCottage \u00a0Facebook: \u00a0<\/strong>click here<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 ‘The Bachelor’ Australia is featuring Cape Town (with Table Mountain), the Winelands, and Pilanesberg Game Reserve in the last two episodes of the dating series, in which bachelor Blake Garvey shows the final three dates the beauty of the Cape. \u00a0The series has been produced by Channel […]<\/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":[3,124,587,266,20,528,31,22,516,21,19,293],"tags":[18076,27986,27990,19788,6838,27988,369,2145,12453,32370,32366,27989,32378,1736,24108,27996,30,27995,27994,6839,669,27992,20198,375,27987,25118,910,27993,16168,6233,25395,32388,32376,4,19655,5,16870,32373,10,27991,365,32382],"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