Thank you, hon Speaker. Hon Minister, the Tourism Enterprise Partnership has identified a number of the most common constraints faced by small enterprises, for example a lack of access to information, a lack of access to credibility and reputation, a lack of critical size - some being too small to warrant attention by tour operators - and a lack of access to finance being one of the most significant barriers to the growth of small enterprises and, therefore, a barrier to the transformation of the industry.
In your budget speech in June this year you promised to finalise a tourism growth strategy with the provinces and a toolkit to assist local government with tourism development. How relevant will such a toolkit be, hon Minister, to address constraints faced by small enterprises? I thank you.