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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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Implications of 2015 State of the Nation Address for Tourism: briefings by Committee Content Adviser and Researcher
20 Feb 2015
The Committee Researcher, Ms Joyce Ntuli and Committee Content Adviser, Dr Sibusiso Khuzwayo provided an analysis of the State of the Nation Address 2015 on implications that it had for the tourism industry.
An overview of tourism figures showed that current unemployment figures had dropped from 25.1% to 24.3%. It ...
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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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Local Government support for tourism development in SA: briefing by Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
7 Nov 2014
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (DCOGTA) briefed the Committee on local government support of tourism development in SA. Areas of emphasis included the legislative and policy context, including the Constitution and the White Paper on Local Government, and the link between local government and economic development. The ...
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Tourism Budget Review and Recommendations Report
29 Oct 2014
The Committee considered its Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). In the interest of time the Committee Content Advisor briefly took the Committee through the Report, with greater emphasis being placed on deliberations by Members on the recommendations contained in the Report. Overall there seemed to be agreement amongst ...
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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 ...