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Cape Legends Inter Hotel Challenge

Cape Legends Inter Hotel Challenge

Date: 2014-03-21
2013 saw the first inter hotel challenge with ten Cape hotels. 2014 has seen the growth in this initiative extending to Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal with a total of 21 hotels on board and in the process evolving into the CAPE LEGENDS INTER HOTEL CHALLENGE who with their superb wine estates are a force in this initiative, having the vision to take on this social responsibility by partnering with the eleven top participating hotels in the Cape, five in Johannesburg and five in Durban. Creating a window for the industry as awhole, an opportunity for hotels to become aunified force and powerful entity for tourism.
 
The hotel industry in South Africa,one of our strongest pillars of tourism, is playing an enormous and largely unsung role in the upliftment, training, mentoring and nurturing of thousands of young people that come into the industry. They arrive, often with little education and few skills, at the bottom of the ladder. These trainees, representative of our multi-faceted cultures each with their unique culinary heritage, provide the backbone of our hotel kitchens and beyond. From these small beginnings to successful careers!

Showcook's rolein the Cape Legends Inter Hotel Challenge is to provide the opportunity and inspiration for the most talented, creative trainees. Giving them goals and the possibility of achieving success, not only in South Africa, but internationally to become ambassadors for our hospitality industry.

Over the years,through their development and tenacity, these trainees have gone on to become excellent chefs at our unrivalled safari lodges and restaurants, made a name for themselves as authors, starred on television and made an impact through social networks, thus honouring their mentors in the broadest sense and acknowledging the selfless, unstinted assistance they received.

This applies equallyto the role of the wine stewards who are put through a rigorous training programme. It is gratifying to see the amazing development, sheer determination and concentration they bring to this role as they strive to achieve the goal of becoming a fully-fledged sommelier.

Cape Legends' aim is highlighting the culture of mentorship, promoting skills development and over time promote from within.