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South African Tourism on its Strategic Plan 2015-2020
20 Mar 2015
A delegation from South African Tourism (SAT) presented a briefing to the Committee on its vision, mandate and governance, as well as its strategic objectives and performance measurements up until 2020. SAT hopes to raise the number of annual tourist arrivals in the country from 9.6 million in 2013/14 to ...
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Tourism Incentive Programme (TIP) to support SMMEs: briefing by National Department of Tourism
13 Mar 2015
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its Tourism Incentive Programme (TIP). Both Minister Derek Hanekom and Deputy Minister Tokozile Xasa made opening statements.
Minister Hanekom said in 2014 when the NDT briefed the Committee on the TIP Members were concerned that not enough progress had been ...
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Tourism development and job creation support: Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (Fedhasa) on its activities
6 Mar 2015
FEDHASA presented to the Committee on its activities in support of tourism development and job creation. It was a broad organisation with seventy five percent of the FEDHASA being made up of big hotel groups. Major pillars for the FEDHASA were legislation pertaining to labour laws, smoking regulations and immigration ...
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Tourism Enterprise Partnership on support to Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises; Committee Oversight Report
27 Feb 2015
The Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP) briefed the Committee on the support it provided to Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs). The TEP was a non-profit company functioning on public private partnerships. Notable achievements were enterprise and supplier development programmes as well as having a well established practice of cost sharing ...
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PC Tourism: Third Term Committee Programme; Northern Cape Oversight Report
14 Nov 2014
The Draft Northern Cape Report 2014 was adopted as amended.
The Committee engaged on discussion over its Third Term Committee Programme. Much of the discussion centred over the planned oversight visit to Pretoria on the 25-28 November 2014. The Committee intended to pay a visit to the offices of the ...
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National Department of Tourism & SA Tourism on their 2013/14 Annual Reports
24 Oct 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Annual Report 2013/14.
Minister Derek Hanekom pointed out that SA’s international tourist figures had increased by 4.7% and almost reached the 10 million mark in 2013 despite the slow economic recovery. The NDT was the custodian of the National Tourism ...
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Audit outcomes of Department of Tourism: AGSA briefing; FFC on its recommendations related to tourism; 3rd Term Committee Programme
17 Oct 2014
The Auditor General SA briefed the Committee on the 2013/14 audit outcomes of the National Department of Tourism (NDT). In 2013/14 the NDT had obtained a clean audit outcome with no findings on predetermined objectives and compliance. SA Tourism had received an unqualified audit outcome with findings on predetermined objectives ...
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Social Responsibility Implementation programme: Department of Tourism on briefing
12 Sep 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Social Responsibility Implementation programme. At the outset of the meeting members were provided with a broad overview. The Committee was informed that it was common practise for upfront payments to be made to project implementers on Expanded Public Works Programme ...
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Tourism Grading Council of South Africa on its grading system
28 Aug 2014
The Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) briefed the Committee on its grading system. The focus currently of the TGCSA was on the grading of accommodation but in the future it intended to move on to restaurants and other tourist attractions. The strategic objectives of the TGCSA were to ...
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Committee Report on Department of Tourism 2014 Strategic Plan
11 Jul 2014
The Committee considered its Draft Committee Report on the Strategic and Annual Performance Plans of the National Department of Tourism for 2014/15 to 2018/19.
The Committee Content Adviser provided an overview of the draft report, noting that he would highlight only the key issues which had emanated from discussions in ...
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National Department of Tourism, and SA Tourism, 2014 Strategic & Annual Performance Plans, in presence of Minister and Deputy Minister
4 Jul 2014
The Minister and Deputy Minister of Tourism attended and contributed to the briefing by the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans 2014/15 to 2018/19. In his introductory remarks, the Minister noted the alignment between the National Development Plan, particularly its emphasis on employment, and ...
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Election of Chairperson
25 Jun 2014
The Committee met briefly to elect a chairperson. Ms B Ngcobo (ANC) was elected unopposed. Members were informed that the Committee’s meetings would take place on Friday’s. The DA objected to this and asked for this to be shifted to Tuesday’s instead. The Chairperson explained that the day had been ...