Tourism
Department of Tourism on Adjustment Budget; with Minister and Deputy Minister
9 Jul 2020
Video: Department of Tourism on Adjusted Budget & Revised Annual Performance Plan
The Department of Tourism, with the Minister and Deputy Minister, briefed the Committee on the revised budget. The Department said Covid19 has transformed the global landscape. All sectors have been impacted but none more than the travel and ...
Tourism
Tourism Business Council SA response to COVID-19 Risk Adjusted Strategy
9 Jun 2020
Audio: Tourism Business Council SA response to COVID-19 Risk Adjusted Strategy
The Tourism Business Council of SA (TBCSA) said the country cannot afford to destroy its tourism sector which contributes 8.6% of GDP. It wants government to lift restrictions on international travel earlier than planned and to present clear plans ...
Tourism
SAT Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Reputational risks to tourism industry posed by captive breeding: Expert briefing
17 Mar 2020
SA Tourism briefed the Committee on its Quarter 2 ...
Finance Standing Committee
2020 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals: response to public hearings
6 Mar 2020
2020 Budget Speech
Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals
2020 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals: public hearings
The National Treasury stated that discussions with stakeholders were centred on the fiscal consolidation versus stimulus debate, the wage bill and other baseline proposals, and tax proposals. The government had proposed a tough budget, ...
Tourism
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 ...
Tourism
Coronavirus & implications for tourism sector: Chinese Consul-General briefing; National Registrar of Tourist Guides on compliance with legislation & other programmes
25 Feb 2020
The Committee met jointly with the Portfolio Committee on Health to get a briefing from the Consul- General of the People’s Republic of China on the impact of the Coronavirus and its implications on the tourism sector.
The Consul-General provided lawmakers with a snapshot of the timelines from when the ...
Tourism
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 ...
Tourism
Department Quarter 2 performance 2019/20; Coordination across tourism stakeholders
4 Feb 2020
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its 2ND Quarter Performance Report 2019/20. The overall performance for Quarter 2 sat at 67.11 % with fifty one out of seventy six targets having been achieved. A total of twenty five targets had not been achieved of which ten were ...
Tourism
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 ...
Tourism
Rural Tourism Strategy Implementation Programmes: Department briefing
12 Nov 2019
The Committee was briefed by the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on the implementation of programmes as per the National Rural Tourism Strategy which had been developed in 2012. The NDT had identified a need to unlock tourism in rural areas. Some of the goals of the Strategy were to ...