Question NW292 to the Minister of Tourism

(i)Working for Tourism

(ii)The Expanded Public Works Programme and related infrastructure projects

For the 2024-25 financial year, the Working for Tourism Expanded Public Works Programme has a target of 5,820 Work Opportunities.

The infrastructure and maintenance projects will contribute to 331 Work Opportunities.

(iii)The Tourism Incentive Programme

The support mechanisms under the Tourism Incentive Programme aim to achieve various objectives, which include:

• promoting operational efficiencies by reducing pressure on the electricity and water resources of the country and ensuring an uninterrupted visitor experience for tourists;
• increasing growth, transformation and stimulating more inclusive participation in the tourism sector in line with the targets of the Tourism B-BBEE Sector Codes;
• improving access to markets and
• facilitating capital investment to stimulate enterprise growth and improve competitiveness.

While the enabling support will stimulate enterprise growth and expansion, jobs are created by the Private Sector that receives the incentive grant from the Department of Tourism.

An accurate measurement of jobs created can be reported at the end of the 2024-25 financial year.

(iv)Other specified marketing efforts

The following marketing platforms created jobs:

Africa’s Travel Indaba (ATI) 2023 economic impact was as follows:

• Contribution to GDP: R1.2 billion
• Contribution to employment: 2 295 jobs

Meetings Africa 2023 economic impact was as follows:

• Contribution to GDP: R388 599 039
• Contribution to employment: 753 jobs

Basic Quality Verification (BQV) programme

The Basic Qualification Verification (BQV) Programme, led by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa, focuses on supporting homestays and other emerging tourism products in VTSDs. It is a structured development programme that enables tourism accommodation products that do not meet the core grading requirements to access trade and provide access to funding opportunities within the sector.

• The programme was launched in 2021 with the Eastern Cape as the pilot province and trained 15 unemployed graduates. In the reporting year, the project rolled out to KwaZulu-Natal with 29 graduates trained as assessors.
• For FY 2024/25 BQV rollout in Gauteng, 15 unemployed graduates will be recruited as evaluators for the duration of the programme.

Domestic Summer Campaign 2023

• The Summer Campaign had a significant economic impact, creating 914 jobs, supporting 85 businesses and involving 81 SMMEs.

(i) Department of Tourism

None of the programmes under the TIP generates any revenue for the Department of Tourism.

None of the Department's programmes generate revenue for the Department of Tourism.

(ii) SA Tourism

SA Tourism generates revenue through Grading Fees, Africa Travel Indaba and Meetings Africa.

SA Tourism generated revenue in the 2023/24 financial year, which is listed in the table below.