This was held at the Cape Sun this week and we had a
chance to listen to a presentation by Enver Duminy, Head of Cape Town Tourism, with his innovative strategy for tourism in our great city. We also met several
new tourism people on their stands and did a lot of networking. We hope to
visit some of these areas and places soon and write about them
A very friendly Anika de Goede of Hermanuspietersfontein
Winery told us all about the new winemaker and the wines and their cottages in
Stanford
An old friend, Martina Barth, who represents the
Vineyard Hotel and the Oude Werf Hotel in Stellenbosch, with Chantelle Philander and
Crystal Hendricks
Brian Berkman, organiser of the event, gets
proceedings going
GM of Cape Sun
Jacques Moolman making the announcement that Tsogo Sun have agreed to spend
R200 million on a complete refurbishment of the Cape Sun. It so needs it
Tony Romer-Lee, head of
PMR Hospitality reminisced about Liz McGrath, the recently deceased, well-respected
owner of The Collection hotel group for whom he worked for several years
A large audience
Cape Town Tourism CEO,
Enver Duminy telling us about his 10 point strategy for publicising our
beautiful city
We try to practice many of
these strategies when we write about the Cape and what it has to offer
The Cape Whale Coast -
destination marketing for the Overstrand: Hangklip, Kleinmond, Hermanus, Stanford
& Gansbaai. Joanne Kunz was charming and amusing, and gave us lots of
information about an area we know well and visit often. She told us of a beach
walk in the Gansbaai area with a marine expert and, as we plan to be there at
the end of April, we certainly will get more information on this. We absolutely
love beachcombing
We learnt about De Zeekoe
Guest Farm, Reserve and venue in Oudtshoorn from Adri, who had us in stitches -
a huge personality and very enjoyable. It is on our list of places to visit one
day soon
Nice to meet you!
Lynne with the girls from
Around About Car Hire
Newmark Hotels’ stand was
ably manned by Waleed Taliep and Angelique Engelbrecht. They have the V&A
hotel, The Victoria and the Dock House Private Hotel in the V&A Waterfront as
well as Motswari Private Game Reserve in Limpopo
The surfer girl from
Stoked School of Surf, Claudia Hopkins – should you wish to learn how to surf.
They take you to the beach with the best waves on the day of your lesson. And
they have weekend surf camps
Brian and the team saying
goodbye. It was a good evening. Some of the posher foreign venues were not very
forthcoming with information, or welcoming, but the "locals" certainly were full
of advice, information and friendliness. Others tables we visited that we can’t
wait to contact are the West Coast National Park and the Cape West Coast Way, who offered to plan a road trip. Also Oudtshoorn Tourism, when we do another
trip via Calitzdorp, Oudtshoorn and Knysna
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2015
