Mr Hlanganani Siphelele Gumbi

Committee appearances

• Tourism Grading System in South Africa & Tabling of proposed Dashboard for tracking of Committee resolutions: TGCSA briefing 5 Nov 2019

  Ms H Gumbi (DA) asked what the extent of the influence of Community Tourism Organisations (CTOs) on grading was. He also asked about the advantages and disadvantages of hiring graders on a commission basis. On the cost of grading, a survey showed that 54% of people believed grading to be ...

• State of transformation in the Tourism Sector: Tourism B-BBEE Charter Council briefing; Finalisation of Howick Oversight Report 29 Oct 2019

  Mr H Gumbi (DA) observed that there seemed to be a sense of mismanagement of how regulations and empowerment policies had been set up. To assist SMMEs, he felt that the cost attached to grading should be scrapped. He noted that the Tourism Amendment Bill covered the issue of online ...

• National Tourism Sector Strategy: Department briefing; Tourism BRRR 22 Oct 2019

  Mr H Gumbi (DA), on facilitating ease of access to SA (slide 17), agreed that packages had to be put together to attract tourists to the country. He asked if tourists were given cell phone Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards when they arrived in SA. On Regulation of Interception of ...

• Tourism Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report; Howick Oversight Report 15 Oct 2019

  Mr H Gumbi (DA) asked that the issue of airlift strategy in the BRRR should be elaborated upon. Costs were a huge factor in travel. Costs and taxes should be reduced. The role of embassies abroad should also be elaborated upon in the BRRR.

• South African Tourism 2018/19 Annual Report, with Minister 9 Oct 2019

  Mr H Gumbi (DA) noted that if 80% of SAT’s budget was spent on destination marketing, and asked whether SAT marketed SA in its entirety. Were towns and cities marketed against other towns and cities in the rest of the world? Did SAT market public and private tourism assets ...

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Questions

• Questions asked to the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation 29 Oct 2019

  (1)With reference to the Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu areas in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, what total number of (a) government-sponsored houses have been built and (b) title deeds for houses have been given to residents in each of the above areas since 2014; (2) what total number of (a) houses were ...

• Questions asked to the Minister of Tourism 20 Sep 2019

  What (a) is the official purpose for the introduction of the Tourism Amendment Bill by her department, (b) number of registered tourism travel agencies exist in (i) the Republic and (ii) each province as at 1 September 2019 and (c) legislation governs and regulates the operation of tourism travel agencies ...

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Plenary appearances

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