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Tourism budget: Committee Report; Committee Programme
9 May 2018
The Committee was presented with an overview of the Committee’s observations and recommendations as contained in the Draft Report on the budget allocation for Vote 33: Tourism. Members noted that the budget was insufficient and needed to be increased, SA needed a tourist friendly visa regime and immigration regulations as ...
Tourism
South African Tourism (SAT) Annual Performance Plan
25 Apr 2018
South African Tourism briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan. While domestic holiday trips have increased by 12% the total number of domestic trips has decreased. The growth of international tourists is below the global growth rates. The reason for this is due to perceptions of safety and security, ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Acting Chairperson Election
28 Feb 2018
The Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on the 2nd and 3rd quarter performance for the financial year 2017/18. The department had met 89% of its targets by the end of the 2nd quarter and 79% by the end of the 3rd, citing the failure of service providers as one ...
Tourism
Tourism Sector Skills Audit & Tourism Sector Human Resource Development Strategy: National Department of Tourism briefing
22 Nov 2017
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) briefed the Committee on the Tourism Sector Skills Audit and the Tourism Sector Human Resource Development (TSHRD) Strategy.
The overall purpose was to do a skills audit in the tourism sector and then to come up with ...
Tourism
Committee Oversight Reports; Committee Report on Department’s Quarter 1 2017/18 Performance
15 Nov 2017
The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Western Cape Province was adopted unamended. Issues that had emerged from the oversight visit were security of cities, grading and also the renaming of “Eden” to the “Garden Route”. The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Limpopo ...
Tourism
Western Cape Province state of tourism: WESGRO briefing
8 Nov 2017
Western Cape Investment and Trade Promotion Agency (WESGRO) briefed the Committee on the state of tourism in the Western Cape Province.
Part of what WESGRO did was to lead trade missions, facilitate investment into priority sectors and to grow leisure and business tourism. The Western Cape was the only province ...
Tourism
Signage on routes to World Heritage Sites and tourism sites: South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) briefing
3 Nov 2017
The Department of Transport and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited briefed the Committee on the provision of signage on routes to World Heritage Sites (WHS) and other sights of significance in SA.
They reported that all road signage had to be done in accordance with specific legislation that ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism Quarter 1 performance, with Deputy Minister
20 Oct 2017
The Deputy Minister said that the South African economy was not growing as it should. However tourism growth was good. Tourism had created 700 000 job and contributed 9% to SA’s Growth Domestic Product. The past year had been tourism’s seventh year of sustained growth. There was a 13% growth in ...
Tourism
South African Maritime Safety Authority + Robben Island Museum 2016/17 Annual Report; BRRR; Committee Report on Limpopo Oversight
13 Oct 2017
The Committee met to be briefed by the South African Maritime Safety Authority and the Robben Island Museum on their activities. It was also going to consider its of Draft Budgetary Review Recommendation Report.
The National Department of Tourism had been appropriated R2 billion where it had spent R1.9 billion ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor-General input
4 Oct 2017
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its 2016/17 annual report in the presence of the Office of the Auditor-General South Africa, which would also be giving input on its auditing process of the National Department of Tourism.
The Auditor–General during its auditing process had ...