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Social Responsibility Implementation report: National Department of Tourism briefing
11 Nov 2016
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its Social Responsibility Implementation programme.
On funding criteria, the Department was unable to meet the 2% employment target for people with disabilities on its infrastructure development projects.
After the National Department had been created; it was found that of the 310 ...
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Enterprise Development: National Department of Tourism briefing
4 Nov 2016
The National Department of Tourism provided some background to place things in context.
On enterprise development, the Department had discontinued its partnership with the Tourism Enterprise Partnership early in 2016. The Department had engaged in a competitive bidding process and had partnered with seven service providers. The Tourism Enterprise Partnership ...
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Travel and Tourism Industry concerns om Immigration Regulations: Tourism Business Council of SA briefing
28 Oct 2016
The purpose of the meeting was to highlight challenges that the Tourism Business Council and the industry was facing due to the immigration regulations, the consequences of the regulations for the industry, the benefits that the industry had for the South African economy and lastly recommendations towards resolving the identified ...
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Audit outcomes of Department of Tourism: AGSA briefing; National Tourism Sector Strategy 2020 targets: Financial Fiscal Commission briefing
19 Oct 2016
The Office of the Auditor General of SA briefed the Committee on the audit outcomes of the National Department of Tourism (NDT) for the financial year 2015/16. In the period under review, the Department had improved on its overall outcomes due to it achieving a financially unqualified audit outcome with ...
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South African Tourism on its 2015/16 Annual Report
14 Oct 2016
South African Tourism 2015/16 Annual Report [awaited email info@pmg.org.za]
Minister Hanekom provided some context to the briefing to be given by SA Tourism. Tourism was important to SA as a job creator. SA Tourism had a newly appointed Chief Executive Officer which had only held office for nine days to date. ...
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National Department of Tourism on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance
9 Sep 2016
The Committee was given insight into three issues that would not come out in the briefings. First on the area of international tourism the National Department of Tourism had a number of “soft” objectives that it pursued that did not necessarily feature in its plans submitted to Parliament. For example, ...
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South African Tourism on its 1st Quarter 2016/17 performance
2 Sep 2016
It was an excellent Quarter for SA Tourism. The number of trips had increased from 6.8m in Quarter1 of 2015 to 10m in Quarter 1 of 2016. Domestic tourism accounted for 7.3m trips in Quarter 1of 2016 compared to 4.6m trips in Quarter 1 of 2015.This was an increase of ...
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India-SA Memorandum of Understanding on Tourism; Committee Reports on KwaZulu-Natal oversight & Tourism Indaba
26 Aug 2016
The Committee considered and adopted outstanding minutes. An issue emanating from one of the adopted minutes was that public hearings should have taken place on the Tourism Sector Codes prior to publication of the Codes by the Minister. This did not happen. The Committee however agreed that the Tourism Broad–Based ...
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Tourism Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Codes: National Department of Tourism briefing
20 May 2016
The Committee elected Ms S Xego (ANC) as Acting Chairperson in the absence of the Chairperson Ms B Ncgobo (ANC).
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on the Amended Tourism Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Sector Code. The briefing commenced with an overview of the process on the development ...
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Tourist Guide Regulations; Committee 2016/17 Annual Performance Plan
13 May 2016
The Committee was briefed by the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on the draft Tourist Guide Regulations, and was informed that the NDT did not nationally manage the tourist guide qualification framework. However, it collaborated closely with the Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA) ...