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Committee Programme
31 Jan 2018
The Committee considered and adopted its proposed Plan for the First Term of 2018. The Committee discussed the matter of changing its scheduled meeting date from Friday to Wednesday. The Committee stated that due to the amount of activity currently taking place in Parliament, it has decided to limit the ...
Tourism
Tourism Sector Skills Audit & Tourism Sector Human Resource Development Strategy: National Department of Tourism briefing
22 Nov 2017
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) briefed the Committee on the Tourism Sector Skills Audit and the Tourism Sector Human Resource Development (TSHRD) Strategy.
The overall purpose was to do a skills audit in the tourism sector and then to come up with ...
Tourism
Committee Oversight Reports; Committee Report on Department’s Quarter 1 2017/18 Performance
15 Nov 2017
The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Western Cape Province was adopted unamended. Issues that had emerged from the oversight visit were security of cities, grading and also the renaming of “Eden” to the “Garden Route”. The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Limpopo ...
Tourism
Western Cape Province state of tourism: WESGRO briefing
8 Nov 2017
Western Cape Investment and Trade Promotion Agency (WESGRO) briefed the Committee on the state of tourism in the Western Cape Province.
Part of what WESGRO did was to lead trade missions, facilitate investment into priority sectors and to grow leisure and business tourism. The Western Cape was the only province ...
Tourism
Signage on routes to World Heritage Sites and tourism sites: South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) briefing
3 Nov 2017
The Department of Transport and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited briefed the Committee on the provision of signage on routes to World Heritage Sites (WHS) and other sights of significance in SA.
They reported that all road signage had to be done in accordance with specific legislation that ...
Tourism
South African Tourism Quarter 1 performance
27 Oct 2017
SA Tourism briefed the Committee on its Quarter 1 Performance Report 2017/18
Programme 1: Corporate Support: on vacancies the annual target was 7%. Progress to date was that SA Tourism had a vacancy rate of 15.8% due to the deferral on the filling of positions pending the finalisation of the ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism Quarter 1 performance, with Deputy Minister
20 Oct 2017
The Deputy Minister said that the South African economy was not growing as it should. However tourism growth was good. Tourism had created 700 000 job and contributed 9% to SA’s Growth Domestic Product. The past year had been tourism’s seventh year of sustained growth. There was a 13% growth in ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor-General input
4 Oct 2017
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its 2016/17 annual report in the presence of the Office of the Auditor-General South Africa, which would also be giving input on its auditing process of the National Department of Tourism.
The Auditor–General during its auditing process had ...
Tourism
SA Tourism on its Annual Report 2016/17, with Minister & Deputy Minister
8 Sep 2017
SA Tourism briefed the Committee on its Annual Report for 2016/17. SA Tourism had received its sixteenth unqualified audit report for this reporting period. On the performance of SA Tourism for 2016/17 it only managed to achieve six of its fourteen key performance indicators. On the number of international tourist ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism Quarter 1 & 4 performance; Committee Programme
1 Sep 2017
The Department of Tourism met with the Committee in order to brief Members on Quarter One and Two of its performance for the 2017/18 financial year. The Department presented its performance in the different programmes including targets, areas of achievement, non-achievement and the reasons therefore - 89% of the targets ...