In response to last week's newsletter titled "Is Food Tourism making a comeback?"
Food tourism has always been a part of the travel experience and it's not new.
Since 2015, I have been writing about local and authentic food experiences on Authentic Food Quest, a food and travel website I co-founded at www.authenticfoodquest.com
The goal has always been and continues to be about inspiring people to seek out local food and culinary activities on their travels. We share content about cooking classes, food and wine tours, recipes of emblematic dishes all aimed at helping people experience local culture through food.
Since the pandemic and also keeping with the rise in travel, we've seen an increased consumption in our content. And, when traveling and participating in various culinary activities around the world, we see more people and a higher interest in learning about local foods and drinks.
The key is not to make food tourism a "passing fad." The plat du jour that will be replac...
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Where can one search for internship opportunities?
Good question, interested to know too.
Hi Ntosh, this would be a good space and place to start creating a list and or way to have access to details about businesses within the Travel Massive Cape Town community to share whether they are taking interns etc.
I actually had a request from CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) for intern placements.
We also share this with the students that have tourism as a subject on senior school level in our panel discussions.
So I would like to request Cape Town & Western Cape members to send me details of whether they are doing intern placements and how we can collaborate on this. If you do not have my email address send me a DM on here.
I'm a 3rd year student, doing Tourism management at Cput. May I ask is there any company's you know that offers internships?
Found it yet? Looking for internships is such a struggle
Have not found one, it's stressful and definitely a struggle.
Google is your friend. Here is a list I found for South Africa bursaries-southafrica.co.za/travel-tourism-internships/