MINISTRY OF TOURISM

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Private Bag X424, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa. Tel. (+27 12) 444 6780, Fax (+27 12) 444 7027

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Ref: TM 2/1/1/10

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY:

QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY:

Question Number:3900

Date of Publication: 24 November 2017

NA IQP Number:46

Date of reply:14 December 2017

Mr J Vos (DA) to ask the Minister of Tourism

Whether, in line with the National Tourism Sector Strategy which makes provision for partnerships withmunicipalities to convertunderutilisedresorts into budget resorts, any such programs have beenimplemented; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details? NW4447E

Reply:

Tourism is a concurrent function. Although the Department conducted an audit which provided a baseline of municipal and provincially owned tourism assets, the decision to convert these underutilised resorts into budget resorts must be taken by the responsible owning entities. This audit report, produced in partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), was made available to all provinces for their project and budget planning purposes of their tourism assets. The Department remains committed to providing support to Provincial and Municipal projects from a planning and investment packaging perspective in cases where municipalities have decided to pursue the budget resort approach.

The member is kindly referred to the responses by myself and my predecessor the past two years on the issue of municipal and provincially owned tourism assets.

As per previous responses the Department of Tourism cannot pursue the Budget Resort Concept independently but only in agreement and partnership with the owners of the tourism asset e.g. municipalities and /or Provinces.

Question Number / Type
Question / Questions Paper:
Publication date and number / Date of Reply / Question asked by
2396 / Written -NA / 7/11/2014 –no 25 / 21/11/2014 / Mr J Vos (DA)
593 / Written
NA / 6/03/2015 – no 5 / 20/03/2015 / Mr J Vos (DA)
2036 / Written NA / 29/05/2015 - no 17 / 19/06/2015 / MR J Vos (DA)
2093 / Written
NA / 29/05/2015 – no 17 / 19/06/2015 / Mr J Vos (DA)
33
(2148) / Transferred from written to oral-NA / 1/11/2016 - no 34
14/10/2016 - no 30 / 1/11/2017 / Mr J Vos (DA)
192 / Written
NA / 17/02/2017 - no 2 / 8/03/2017 / Mr BR Topham (DA)
98 / Oral
NA / 30/05/2017- no 19 / 7/06/2017 / Mr J Vos (DA)
2238 / Written
NA / 7/08/2017 - no 25 / 22/08/2017 / MR TM Mbabama (DA)

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