We have a destination master plan and precinct development focused mainly in the townships. We have projects that are running currently in Khayelitsha, Galeshewe, Mdantsane, Vilakazi Street etc. And then we have a rural tourism strategy that focuses on rural tourism development where we are using the products that are there, because most of the products are in the rural areas. But the challenge is that located in those rural areas there is no beneficiations for the locals and that is where the problem is. We are then coming up with various programmes of which one of them is the tourism incubation and business support.
We currently have five incubation projects that are running and they are located in the rural areas. We have partnered with Sanparks in five National Parks, where we are doing tourism maintenance of facilities in the parks. That tourism maintenance in the parks is done by Small, Medium & Micro Enterprise Businesses, SMMEs, from the surrounding and also involving training of young people to be able to take on that responsibility.
As I have indicated, we have got all the five parks that we have identified and agreed up on like Kruger National Park, Marakele National Park, Addo Elephant National Park ... in Kruger National Park is Manyeleti around Bushbuckridge where this is taking place. Then we have got Pilanesberg which is in the Northern West where this incubation is taking place. Mopani district is part of our plan. So those are some of our projects that are currently running.
All our programme for training are focusing on youth and mainly are located within the tourism products. The sizeable numbers of our tourism products are in the rural areas. Because of that we want to use that opportunity to accommodate them so that we are able to train them in order for them to become part of the projects and the programme that we are dealing with. Thank you.
Setswana: