The Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP) is a non-profit company with focus on public and private partnerships. It is one of the longest standing and most successful enterprise development partners for small tourism businesses in South Africa. The mandate for TEP is to facilitate the growth, development and sustainability of tourism SMMEs and thereby contributing to the transformation of the industry. The organisation offers interventions that provide hands-on, step by step support and guidance to tourism SMMEs. The service offerings for TEP include client graduation categories such as access to information; business support; skills development; and market access. Clients are classified into five categories ranging from Category 1 clients who are mainly information clients to category 5 clients who are implementing special projects.