Category Archives: Wine Tourism Conference

Porto to Host 2011 Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference & Workshop

By winepleasures | Published: March 2, 2010
Wine Pleasures is pleased to announce that the 3rd annual edition of the Wine Pleasures International Wine Tourism Conference and Workshop will be held from 31st January – 3rd February 2011 in Porto, Portugal. This year’s Conference & Workshop saw over 200 wine tourism professionals from around the world descend on the little know Catalan village [...]
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Live Blogging Plenary session by Rainer Brusis (Innova Management)

By winepleasures | Published: February 3, 2010
Grape Escape Destinations in Spain. Grape Escape Destinations in Spain The aim of this conference is to present some of the main wine tourism destinations in Spain. The presentation will focus particularly on some of the leading wine tourism destinations in Spain and how wine tourism has evolved in recent years in the following wine regions: La [...]
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Live Blogging Plenary session by João Falcão (VINITUR)

By winepleasures | Published: February 3, 2010
Grape Escape Destinations in Portugal. Grape Escape Destinations in Portugal Portugal is a largely undiscovered treasure-trove for wine & food lovers: 35 winemaking regions and 11 wine routes, from North to South, the oldest demarcated and controlled winemaking region in the world, and the Douro Winemaking Region, home of Port Wine since 1756. It encompasses an admirable [...]
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Live Blogging Plenary session by John Callely (CEO Jameson Distillery Tours)

By winepleasures | Published: February 3, 2010
Jameson Distillery Tours! How our Visitor Center Has Grown Our Whiskey Sales. How our Visitor Centre has grown our Whiskey Sales. Are you open for visits? In 1984 Jameson opened its first visitor centre called “The Irish Whiskey Corner” in a former Jameson warehouse. Within a short number of years capacity reached saturation level at 46000 [...]
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Live Blogging: Interesting Web 2.0 tools and Community Manager Skills for a Tourism Board

By winepleasures | Published: February 3, 2010
Interesting Web 2.0 Tools and Community Manager Skills for Tourism. Speaker: Daniel García Peris (Subirats Tourism Office) Twitter, Facebook, Blog… There’s a new era in communication of tourist activities at the web. A Tourist Board must manage all these applications to create community with their visitors. Presence on the net and use of Web 2.0 makes it [...]
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Live Blogging Whiskey Tasting with John Callely, Jameson Distillery Tours

By winepleasures | Published: February 2, 2010
Whiskey Tasting With Jameson Distillery Tours! Whiskey tasting evening with John Callely of Jameson Distillery Tours, Dublin, Ireland. This will consist of Jameson (standard) Irish Whiskey, Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch and Jack Daniels Bourbon. John will talk the group through the smell and taste differences between the categories and outline briefly the distilling process.
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Live Blogging Wines from Bulgaria

By winepleasures | Published: February 2, 2010
Bulgarian Wine Tasting. Join us with questions and comments! Bulgarian wine tasting evening with Juan Manuel Gonzalvo (Sommelier) and Nedko Nedev (Vinos de Bulgaria). Bulgaria is producing about 70% red wines, 25% white wines and 5% fortified and sparkling wine. Over 80% of the wine production is exported nowadays to over 70 countries spread worldwide. Bulgarian wines are winning medals and [...]
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Live Blogging: Get Media Savvy with Joy Neighbors

By winepleasures | Published: February 2, 2010
Get Media Savvy and Get Known! Speaker Joy Neighbours.
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Live Blogging: Round Table – What is a Blog and Why Should a Winery Have One?

By winepleasures | Published: February 2, 2010
Round table, what is a blog and why should a winery have one? Give us your thoughts!! Moderator: Albert Moreno (FeedbackMP) Panel: Barbara Siemianiuk (Caves Montau de Sadurní), Ana Belén Hernández Soto (Vintae Luxury Wine Specialists), Marcel Sabaté i Coca (Cavas Castellroig)
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Live Blogging: Wine Tourism in Hungary Marianna Pósfai (Wine Time Hungary)

By winepleasures | Published: February 2, 2010
Wine Tourism in Hungry! Speaker: Marianna Posfai. TUNE IN ! Have you ever heard about Kadarka, Juhfark or Királyleányka? These tongue-twisting names referring to grapes which are exclusively grown in Hungary. Wine production is reviving in Hungary and more and more quality, family wineries welcome wine lovers from all over the world. Wine Time Hungary offers [...]
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