Tourism is a concurrent function. Although the Department conducted an audit which provided a baseline of municipal and provincially owned tourism assets, the decision to convert these underutilised resorts into budget resorts must be taken by the responsible owning entities. This audit report, produced in partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), was made available to all provinces for their project and budget planning purposes of their tourism assets. The Department remains committed to providing support to Provincial and Municipal projects from a planning and investment packaging perspective in cases where municipalities have decided to pursue the budget resort approach.
The member is kindly referred to the responses by myself and my predecessor the past two years on the issue of municipal and provincially owned tourism assets.
As per previous responses the Department of Tourism cannot pursue the Budget Resort Concept independently but only in agreement and partnership with the owners of the tourism asset e.g. municipalities and /or Provinces.
Question Number |
Type Question |
Questions Paper: Publication date and number |
Date of Reply |
Question asked by |
2396 |
Written -NA |
7/11/2014 –no 25 |
21/11/2014 |
Mr J Vos (DA) |
593 |
Written NA |
6/03/2015 – no 5 |
20/03/2015 |
Mr J Vos (DA) |
2036 |
Written NA |
29/05/2015 - no 17 |
19/06/2015 |
MR J Vos (DA) |
2093 |
Written NA |
29/05/2015 – no 17 |
19/06/2015 |
Mr J Vos (DA) |
33 (2148) |
Transferred from written to oral-NA |
1/11/2016 - no 34 14/10/2016 - no 30 |
1/11/2017 |
Mr J Vos (DA) |
192 |
Written NA |
17/02/2017 - no 2 |
8/03/2017 |
Mr BR Topham (DA) |
98 |
Oral NA |
30/05/2017- no 19 |
7/06/2017 |
Mr J Vos (DA) |
2238 |
Written NA |
7/08/2017 - no 25 |
22/08/2017 |
MR TM Mbabama (DA) |