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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 26 May

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   Label design can make an important impact on the purchase of a bottle of wine, argues the Wall Street Journal, as can a comedy play on wine brand names for...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 27 May

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   SAA is now charging R570 for domestic flights and R 1140 for international flights per ticket for no-shows, reports Travel News Weekly. *   Four Gold Awards...

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Deafening silence from Tourism Ministry about disastrous effect of visa...

Despite the tourism industry being up in arms about the implementation of the Immigration Regulations pertaining to children travelers, which are effective from today, Minister of Tourism Derek Hanekom...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 1 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   Chef Luke Dale-Roberts of The Test Kitchen has traveled to London, to attend the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, which will be awarded tonight.  It is a...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 2 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   The price of petrol increases by 47 cents a liter at midnight today, mainly due to the increase in the price of crude oil. *   More than 1000 delegates...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 3 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reacted to the additional Immigration Regulations introduced on Monday, requesting our government ‘to...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 4 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   London has been named as the most visited tourist city by the MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index, estimated to receive 19 million tourists this year....

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 8 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   The EFF is calling for 40 Cape Town suburbs and Western Cape towns to be renamed, to remove references to our ‘colonial‘ past and to go back to the region’s...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 9 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   The DA Shadow Minister of Tourism James Vos will lodge a complaint against Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom to the Tourism Portfolio Committee, for not calling...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 10 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   The Department of Home Affairs has ‘rubbished‘ the claim of SATSA (SA Tourism Service Association) that it is seeing a decline in airline ticket sales to our...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 15 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   Passengers traveling by plane may be faced with hand luggage size reductions by up to 40%, it was announced last week. The new dimensions have not yet been...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 17 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   Johnny Clegg has been added to the Birthday List of Queen Elizabeth II, for an OBE (Order of the British Empire), reports Business Day. *   Jeff Gradwell has...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 19 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   Radford Dale Freedom Pinot Noir 2012 was paired with one of the courses at the dinner for the wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden last...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 22 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *  WOSA (Wines of South Africa) CEO Siobhan Thompson has described the wines of our country as using ‘fusion wine-making’, the ‘newest generation of wines‘ being...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 24 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   From 25 October FlySafair will offer flights between Cape Town, Durban, and East London, as well as between Johannesburg and the two cities. Costs start at...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 25 June

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   AirBnB is increasing in popularity, and becoming a greater threat to hotels, especially as it is accepting hotel room listings at its attractive 3% commission...

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Pepler Alarms Sweet Service and Robben Island Sour Service Awards!

The Sweet Service Award goes to Pepler Alarms and its owner Pieter Pepler.  I visited my guest house in Franschhoek on a Saturday afternoon just before my overseas trip, and was surprised that I did...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 1 July

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   The price of petrol went up by 44 cents a liter at midnight, the increase being blamed on the weakening Rand, and increased demand for petrol in Europe and...

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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 3 July

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines *   London’s first underground farm Growing Underground has been created in a disused bunker from World War II, below the Northern Line  at Clapham, reports The...

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New Cycle Route between Cape Town and Plettenberg Bay to be developed!

In order to stimulate Tourism in the Western Cape, a new Cycling Route between Cape Town and Plettenberg Bay is to be established over a five-year period, Western Cape Minister of Tourism Alan Winde...

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