The focus for NDT for the period 2014/15 to 2018/19 will be to: 1. Diversify and enhance the tourism offerings; 2. Facilitate tourism capacity building programmes for the sector; 3. Provide knowledge services to inform policy, planning and decision making; 4. Create employment opportunities by implementing tourism projects targeted at the unemployed; 5. Create an enabling legislative and regulatory environment for tourism development and growth; 6. Accelerate transformation of the tourism sector; 7. Develop new and maintain markets (countries / regions) to position South Africa as a preferred destination; 8. Enhance tourism regional integration; 9. Create understanding about the value of the tourism sector and its opportunities; 10. Ensure economic, efficient and effective use of departmental resources; and 11. Contribute to the economic transformation in South Africa.