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Board of Airline Representatives of South Africa on pertinent issues
27 Oct 2020
The Board of Airline Representatives of South Africa (BARSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on its activities and issues pertinent to tourism airlift prospects and challenges within SA in a virtual meeting.
BARSA said the aviation and tourism sector is greatly challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic and it resulted in massive ...
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CATHSSETA on training programmes in Tourism Sector; Committee Report on 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance
20 Oct 2020
The Culture, Art, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Sector Education Training Authority (CATHSSETA) presented a background paper to the Committee with an overview of its skills development and training programmes in the tourism and travel services sector. The discussion was on the mandate of developing a credible Sector Skills Plan (SSP) ...
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Department of Tourism 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance; with Minister and Deputy
6 Oct 2020
The Department of Tourism presented its quarter one performance report for the 2020/21 financial year in a virtual meeting. It looked at the challenges which COVID-19 had posed for the industry, and the measures that had been put in place to ensure the industry bounced back from the present situation. ...
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South African Tourism 2019/20 Quarter 4 performance
25 Aug 2020
South African Tourism reported that in the fourth quarter, it started to see the global results of how tourism slowed down. Globally, tourism was down 22% and this was during the first waves of the coronavirus in Asia, Europe and the United States. South Africa had experienced a decline of ...
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South African Women in Tourism on Women in Tourism programmes / activities
18 Aug 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Tourism, 18 August 2020
The Committee was briefed on the Women in Tourism (WiT) programme and the progress made in each of the provincial chapters. The meeting took place on a virtual platform. The presentations addressed the various events in the provinces for the WiT programme. ...
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Department of Tourism 2019/20 Quarter 3 & 4 performance
28 Jul 2020
Video: Department of Tourism 2019/20 Quarter 3 & 4 performance
On a virtual platform, the Committee was briefed on the quarter three and four reports of the Department of Tourism. In quarter three, overall performance achieved for the quarter is 71.62%. The percentage which is not achieved but there is ...
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Tourism Budget: Committee Report
2 Jun 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Tourism, 2 June 2020
Audio: Tourism Budget: Committee Report; Tourism 2019/20 Quarter 2 performance
The Committee considered a draft Report presented by the Committee Content Advisor. The Report was on the Portfolio Committee on Tourism, having considered Budget Vote number 38: Tourism, together ...
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Meeting with NHTL to discuss state of tourism in rural areas; Second Term Committee Programme
3 Mar 2020
The Committee engaged with the National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) on the state of tourism in rural areas especially in villages. The role of tourism in each village would be assessed. This was all part of the bigger picture of transformation. Transformation was not really taking place in the ...
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Impact of SONA on Tourism sector; Term 1 Programme
18 Feb 2020
The Committee Content Advisor and the Committee Researcher briefed the Committee on the implications that the State of the Nation Address 2020 had on tourism.
As background the Committee was provided with a snapshot of tourism performance. In 2019 President Cyril Ramaphosa had announced a target of having 21m arrivals ...
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South African National Convention Bureau on bids and geographic spread of business events
26 Nov 2019
The South Africa National Convention Bureau (SANCB) briefed the Committee on bids and geographic spread of business events across SA. The types of business events that the SANCB assisted in bidding for was for Meeting, Incentive, Convention/Conference and Exhibition (MICE). Members were informed that business events tied in with leisure ...