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PC Tourism: Third Term Committee Programme; Northern Cape Oversight Report
14 Nov 2014
The Draft Northern Cape Report 2014 was adopted as amended.
The Committee engaged on discussion over its Third Term Committee Programme. Much of the discussion centred over the planned oversight visit to Pretoria on the 25-28 November 2014. The Committee intended to pay a visit to the offices of the ...
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Local Government support for tourism development in SA: briefing by Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
7 Nov 2014
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (DCOGTA) briefed the Committee on local government support of tourism development in SA. Areas of emphasis included the legislative and policy context, including the Constitution and the White Paper on Local Government, and the link between local government and economic development. The ...
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Tourism Budget Review and Recommendations Report
29 Oct 2014
The Committee considered its Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). In the interest of time the Committee Content Advisor briefly took the Committee through the Report, with greater emphasis being placed on deliberations by Members on the recommendations contained in the Report. Overall there seemed to be agreement amongst ...
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National Department of Tourism & SA Tourism on their 2013/14 Annual Reports
24 Oct 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Annual Report 2013/14.
Minister Derek Hanekom pointed out that SA’s international tourist figures had increased by 4.7% and almost reached the 10 million mark in 2013 despite the slow economic recovery. The NDT was the custodian of the National Tourism ...
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Audit outcomes of Department of Tourism: AGSA briefing; FFC on its recommendations related to tourism; 3rd Term Committee Programme
17 Oct 2014
The Auditor General SA briefed the Committee on the 2013/14 audit outcomes of the National Department of Tourism (NDT). In 2013/14 the NDT had obtained a clean audit outcome with no findings on predetermined objectives and compliance. SA Tourism had received an unqualified audit outcome with findings on predetermined objectives ...
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Social Responsibility Implementation programme: Department of Tourism on briefing
12 Sep 2014
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Social Responsibility Implementation programme. At the outset of the meeting members were provided with a broad overview. The Committee was informed that it was common practise for upfront payments to be made to project implementers on Expanded Public Works Programme ...
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Tourism Incentive Programme: Department of Tourism briefing
5 Sep 2014
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its Tourism Incentive Programme (TIP). In 2011 the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) had transferred a unit that had dealt with tourism incentives to the NDT. The unit had been involved in the DTI’s Tourism Support Programme (TSP). In ...
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Tourism Grading Council of South Africa on its grading system
28 Aug 2014
The Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) briefed the Committee on its grading system. The focus currently of the TGCSA was on the grading of accommodation but in the future it intended to move on to restaurants and other tourist attractions. The strategic objectives of the TGCSA were to ...
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National Tourism Sector Strategy: Department of Tourism briefing; Committee's Second Term Programme
22 Aug 2014
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its National Tourism Sector Strategy (NTSS). Cabinet had approved the NTSS on the 3 March 2011. The aim of the NTSS was to assist in making SA one of the top 20 tourism destinations in the world by 2020. Some ...
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South African Tourism key programmes; Committee programme
1 Aug 2014
South African Tourism (SAT) briefed the Committee on its work, its key programmes, and how it operated, noting also that SAT primarily tried to achieve government’s objectives as set out in the National Tourism Sector Strategy (NTSS). It was SAT’s task to market South Africa in such a way to ...