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South Africa’s tourism statistics: Statistics South Africa (Stats-SA) briefing; Third Term Committee Programme; Committee Budget Vote Report and Draft Tourism Indaba Report
19 Jun 2015
The Committee considered its Draft Third Term Programme 2015. It was agreed that necessary changes reflecting the inputs made by Members would be incorporated into the Programme that would be adopted at another time. The Committee also considered its Budget Vote Report and also deferred its adoption. Committee Minutes dated ...
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Initiatives undertaken to improve tourism growth and development: Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) briefing
12 Jun 2015
PMG did not attend this meeting. The meeting was held outside of Parliament.
Tourism
Committee Report on Department of Tourism Budget Vote No.33
29 Apr 2015
The Chairperson said the Committee had to look at the Draft Committee Report on Budget Vote No.33 and adopt the report for the next financial year. She was pleased with how the Committee and the Department of Tourism had worked well with each other; that the Committee was amongst the ...
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National Department of Tourism: Workshop on Act No. 3 of 2014
17 Apr 2015
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) hosted the Committee to a workshop on the Tourism Act No.3 of 2014. It was important to paint a picture of the tourism environment for the Committee. The challenge was that the tourism sector could have different pieces of legislation and policies that may ...
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National Department of Tourism Strategic and Annual Performance Plans 2015/16
27 Mar 2015
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan 2015/16 - 2019/20. In attendance was Deputy Minister Tokozile Xasa. She extended the apologies of the Minister of Tourism, Mr Derek Hanekom, who was unable to attend the meeting. Prior to the actual ...
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South African Tourism on its Strategic Plan 2015-2020
20 Mar 2015
A delegation from South African Tourism (SAT) presented a briefing to the Committee on its vision, mandate and governance, as well as its strategic objectives and performance measurements up until 2020. SAT hopes to raise the number of annual tourist arrivals in the country from 9.6 million in 2013/14 to ...
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Tourism Incentive Programme (TIP) to support SMMEs: briefing by National Department of Tourism
13 Mar 2015
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its Tourism Incentive Programme (TIP). Both Minister Derek Hanekom and Deputy Minister Tokozile Xasa made opening statements.
Minister Hanekom said in 2014 when the NDT briefed the Committee on the TIP Members were concerned that not enough progress had been ...
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Tourism Enterprise Partnership on support to Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises; Committee Oversight Report
27 Feb 2015
The Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP) briefed the Committee on the support it provided to Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs). The TEP was a non-profit company functioning on public private partnerships. Notable achievements were enterprise and supplier development programmes as well as having a well established practice of cost sharing ...
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Implications of 2015 State of the Nation Address for Tourism: briefings by Committee Content Adviser and Researcher
20 Feb 2015
The Committee Researcher, Ms Joyce Ntuli and Committee Content Adviser, Dr Sibusiso Khuzwayo provided an analysis of the State of the Nation Address 2015 on implications that it had for the tourism industry.
An overview of tourism figures showed that current unemployment figures had dropped from 25.1% to 24.3%. It ...
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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 ...