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SAT Quarter 2 & 3 performance; Reputational risks to tourism industry posed by captive breeding: Expert briefing
17 Mar 2020
SA Tourism briefed the Committee on its Quarter 2 ...
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Brand SA on mandate, activities and programmes in relation to tourism development; Second Term Committee Programme
10 Mar 2020
BrandSA briefed the Committee on its mandate, activities and programmes in relation to tourism development. Members were at the outset informed that the South African brand was bleeding due to issues of load-shedding, crime, the Coronavirus and Xenophobia etc. The briefing spoke to BrandSA’s purpose, how it did things, why ...
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Meeting with NHTL to discuss state of tourism in rural areas; Second Term Committee Programme
3 Mar 2020
The Committee engaged with the National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) on the state of tourism in rural areas especially in villages. The role of tourism in each village would be assessed. This was all part of the bigger picture of transformation. Transformation was not really taking place in the ...
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Coronavirus & implications for tourism sector: Chinese Consul-General briefing; National Registrar of Tourist Guides on compliance with legislation & other programmes
25 Feb 2020
The Committee met jointly with the Portfolio Committee on Health to get a briefing from the Consul- General of the People’s Republic of China on the impact of the Coronavirus and its implications on the tourism sector.
The Consul-General provided lawmakers with a snapshot of the timelines from when the ...
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Impact of SONA on Tourism sector; Term 1 Programme
18 Feb 2020
The Committee Content Advisor and the Committee Researcher briefed the Committee on the implications that the State of the Nation Address 2020 had on tourism.
As background the Committee was provided with a snapshot of tourism performance. In 2019 President Cyril Ramaphosa had announced a target of having 21m arrivals ...
Tourism
Department Quarter 2 performance 2019/20; Coordination across tourism stakeholders
4 Feb 2020
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its 2ND Quarter Performance Report 2019/20. The overall performance for Quarter 2 sat at 67.11 % with fifty one out of seventy six targets having been achieved. A total of twenty five targets had not been achieved of which ten were ...
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Launch of the Legislature Tourism Oversight Forum (LOTOFO): engagement with stakeholders
3 Dec 2019
The Committee introduced its Legislature Tourism Oversight Forum (LOTOFO) Concept Document to provincial legislatures, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and to the National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) and encouraged discussion around it.
The Committee had identified the need to strengthen relationships with traditional leaders, the local government ...
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South African National Convention Bureau on bids and geographic spread of business events
26 Nov 2019
The South Africa National Convention Bureau (SANCB) briefed the Committee on bids and geographic spread of business events across SA. The types of business events that the SANCB assisted in bidding for was for Meeting, Incentive, Convention/Conference and Exhibition (MICE). Members were informed that business events tied in with leisure ...
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Marketing Investment Framework: SAT briefing
19 Nov 2019
SA Tourism (SAT) briefed the Committee on its Marketing Investment Framework (MIF). The MIF was the framework that SAT used to guide its marketing investment choices as it was developed on the philosophy of bringing together targets, market selection and available resources to establish optimal marketing investments. Members were provided ...
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Rural Tourism Strategy Implementation Programmes: Department briefing
12 Nov 2019
The Committee was briefed by the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on the implementation of programmes as per the National Rural Tourism Strategy which had been developed in 2012. The NDT had identified a need to unlock tourism in rural areas. Some of the goals of the Strategy were to ...