HICA 2013: Positive news for tourism
Change – and how we see our neighbours on the continent – were very much part of the second and final day of the Tourism Business Council’s Hotel Investment Conference Africa (HICA 2013). “My story about doing business on the…
Nurture vs. Nature: Greenways Hotel in Cape Town
African hospitality, German efficiency, and the grace of the Cape – man, if that isn’t a recipe for rare and exceptional, then what is? I spent three nights at Greenways last week, and it was terribly hard to drag myself…
Difficult decision for judges in international sommeliers contest
Who is the world’s top young sommelier? This is the question a panel of judges will have to answer when the 6th Concours International des Jeunes Sommeliers gets underway in Cape Town on the 21st of September. Twelve finalists – from…
Jeff Lopes to represent South Africa in 6th World Sommeliers Competition
Twenty-seven-year-old Jeff Lopes – an assistant restaurant manager at Johannesburg’s Saxon Boutique Hotel, Villas and Spa – plans to uphold South Africa’s reputation as an unbeatable wine-loving nation when he comes up against eleven of the world’s top young sommeliers…
6th World Sommeliers Competition comes To Cape Town
Twelve of the world’s finest young sommeliers will showcase their skills to a team of international judges when the 6th Concours International des Jeunes Sommeliers gets under way at Cape Town’s venerable Mountain Nelson Hotel on Friday, 21 September. The competitors –…
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