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South African Tourism (SAT) on Quarter 4 performance
25 Aug 2017
SA Tourism briefed the Committee on its Quarter 4 Performance for 2016/17.
On the key performance indicator about the number of holiday trips achieved, the entity recorded 974 291 trips achieved versus a target of 1 152 521. The main deterrent for people not taking domestic holiday trips was affordability. On total revenue ...
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Marketing Investment Framework (MIF) and econometrics study with Oxford University: SA Tourism briefing
18 Aug 2017
SA Tourism briefed the Committee on its Marketing Investment Framework and the econometrics study with Oxford University
SA Tourism had created a marketing investment strategy informed by an investment framework to achieve its 5-in-5 national tourism target, which aimed to add five million high value tourist trips within five years ...
Tourism
Transformation in Tourism Sector: Tourism B-BBEE Charter Council briefing
9 Jun 2017
The Tourism Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Charter Council briefed the Committee on transformation in the tourism sector.
The Council worked jointly with the National Department of Tourism (NDT) to implement initiatives to gauge and drive transformation in the tourism sector. These included doing a new baseline study on the ...
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Internal Committee Business
1 Jun 2017
The Committee adopted outstanding Draft Committee Reports and Committee Minutes.
Tourism
South African Tourism on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister & Deputy Minister
12 May 2017
South African Tourism briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan. SA Tourism had the Five in Five Strategy which aimed to bring in 5m tourists within the next five years ie 4m international tourist arrivals and 1m domestic holiday trips. It informed SA Tourism’s Annual Performance Plan and its ...
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France-South Africa Friendship Group on bilateral relations, cooperation at parliamentary level and tourism meeting
11 May 2017
The Committee with met with the France-South Africa Friendship to discuss bilateral relations, cooperation at parliamentary level and tourism. It was noted that South Africa and France enjoyed a cordial and mutually beneficial relationship and that this engagement will help to strengthen ties between the two countries. Members of the ...
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National Department of Tourism on its Annual Performance plan, with Minister and Deputy Minister
5 May 2017
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) presented its strategic plan and annual performance plan (APP) for the years 2017/2020 and 2017/18, and described its challenges and plans. The Committee was very impressed that the whole delegation of the NDT was present, included both the Minister and Deputy Minister.
The NDT ...
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Auditor General on assurance assessment criteria for 2016/17
3 May 2017
The Office of the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the assurance assessment criteria for the 2016/17 financial year.
The first level of assurance was management assurance ie senior management, accounting officers and the executive authority. The second level of assurance was oversight assurance ie coordinating/monitoring institutions, internal ...
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South African Tourism on its Quarter 3 performance; Update on preparations of Free State Province
17 Mar 2017
The Committee at the outset was given the explanation that the SAT relied on statistics from StatsSA. The challenge was that StatsSA worked with calendar year statistics. There was thus a disjuncture in that SAT reporting had to be for financial years. SAT was working with StatsSA on the matter. ...
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National Department of Tourism on its Quarter 3 Performance
10 Mar 2017
The National Department of Tourism reported on its Quarter 3 Performance Report for 2016/17.
Programme 1: Administration
With the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) being the number of strategic documents developed and implemented in Quarter 3 the target had been met regarding having a second draft of the Strategic Plan and ...