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Item 2020/21 State of Tourism Report(Nationa Department of Tourism, South Africa, 2022)The 2020/21 STR framework was developed and approved in June 2022, which outlined the key themes, sub-sections and indicators covered in this report. The framework provides the sources for the secondary data that has been used in the 2020/21 STR. This secondary data was sourced from different institutions such as the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), WTTC, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), ForwardKeys and Euromonitor. These data sources were used to report on the performance of key tourism industries globally. In addition, and specifically for the analysis of the South Africa tourism sector performance, secondary data was sourced from organisations such as South African Tourism (SA Tourism), Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) and the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) ...Item Department of Tourism Annual report 2020/2021(National Department of Tourism, South Africa, 2021)The tourism sector has in recent times become the new gold, having surpassed many sectors such as mining and manufacturing in terms of job creation and contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to an annual review by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) in 2019, our country’s tourism sector created 1.5 million jobs and contributed R425.8 billion to the GDP. This is a sector that also represents 8.6 % of all economic activity in the country, while our country is the largest tourism economy in Africa. South Africa’s tourism industry prides itself in its unique and vast offerings. The advantage of this industry is that it is versatile, and able to overlap across various industries. What makes the country’s tourism sector remain above the rest is its ability to offer bush, leisure, blue flag beaches and accommodation, amongst the others. While the sector has been doing its bit to grow the economy over the years, the emergence of Novel COVID-19 pandemic has had dire socio-economic effects on the sector. This led to the threat of job losses and strained livelihoods of tourism employees, and other stakeholders. As a result, various COVID-19 mitigations were implemented in a phased approach to counter the effect of COVID-19 on the sector. These were put in place and tabled to the government by the Department in collaboration with other sectors. On the other hand, SMME’s and big sub-sectors in the tourism industry adapted their business models and maintained a presence through innovative ways of operating. This reflected the great potential and opportunity for the tourism industry to operate in an unconventional way in the COVID-19 operating environment. The Department embarked on a process to review the current tourism policies and develop a new policy direction for the tourism sector. The Advisory Panel appointed in October 2020 commenced with its work in November 2020 with the review of the White Paper on the Development and Promotion of Tourism in South (1996). The Panel has held preliminary consultations with organised tourism, business formations, labour union, youth and transformation bodies within the tourism sector. The reviewed Tourism White Paper is expected to provide a framework for the next phase of tourism development in the country ...Item South African Tourism Annual Report 2021/2022(National Department of Tourism, South Africa, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the greatest health, economic and social crises of our time. It broughtunprecedented disruption, with a massive drop in travel, resulting from a global lockdown and widespread travel restrictions. Tourism was one of the most affected sectors, with businesses and livelihoods around the world severely impacted. This set unprecedented challenges for the global travel and tourism market. However,the introduction of vaccinations against COVID-19 proved to be good news for the travel industry. The approval of various vaccines and subsequent vaccination of 50% of the world’s population with at least one vaccination dose toward, resulted in a significant easing of travel restrictions, which contributed to the revitalisation of international travel. The lifting of travel bans following the introduction of vaccinations against COVID-19 led to a slight improvement in global and domestic travel during the period under review. However, South Africa’s position on the “red list” of many countries continued to impact on international arrivals. The organisation’s marketing activities therefore had to focus on cementing the message that the country is ready to welcome visitors once international borders are open again. As of 1 November 2021, only 52% of worldwide destinations were requesting negative COVID-19 tests at points of entry. This is an improvement on the 35% recorded at the same time in 2020. Despite this, the borders of 21% of countries were still completely closed, while 25% were partially closed. Only 2% of countries had lifted all COVID-19 travel restrictions. Although 39% of countries had eased restrictions for fully COVID-19-vaccinated individuals, another 9% had made a full COVID-19 vaccinationmandatory. This impacted on South African Tourism’s performance and its ability to meet its targets. General financial review: With total assets exceeding liabilities by R228 million and a net current asset position of R 175 million, SA Tourism has sufficient cash reserves in the bank to meet its obligations as they become due, the entity is a going concern. For the period ending 31 March 2022 the entity incurred total audited expenditure to the value of 1.3 billion of which 910 million was spent on marketing expenditure with the greater share going toward leisure tourism. Requests for roll over of funds; National Treasury approved the roll-over of approved capital expenditure and bid support commitments. These commitments were audited by the Auditor General of South Africa in the preceding financial year. Supply chain management: During the year under review, SA Tourism continued to strengthen its supply chain environment through the Bid Adjudication Committee, the Bid Evaluation Committees and the Bid Specification Committees. The work of the procurement committees was guided by the Board approved Annual Procurement Plan, which was monitored by the Bid AdjudicationCommittee, the ExCo and the SA Tourism Board.Item Tourism Annual Report 2022-23(National Department of Tourism, South Africa, 2023)During this period under review, we witnessed a strong and remarkable milestone of the tourism sector recovery that gradually imbued in us a sense of hope that the dream of a resilient tourism and travel sector capable of massively contributing to the economic growth and well-being of our people is in the offing. The Tourism Grading Support Programme (TGSP) was introduced in 2015/16 and offers discounts of 80% or 90% on grading assessment fees for accommodation and meeting venues that apply for star grading by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA). The application process is integrated into, and forms part of the online grading application process of the TGCSA. The Programme enables establishments to receive feedback on areas that require attention prior to full grading application, thereby minimising the numbers of those that do not make it, or increasing the uptake, especially for emerging small enterprises. In 2022/23, the TGSP which is implemented through the TGCSA, supported a total of 3 738 TGSP applications, representing a combined value of R15 874 587,50 in discounts on grading assessment fees. The Department is currently renegotiating its contract with the TGCSA for the continued implementation of the TGSP, which will assist in reducing the cost burden on small enterprises and encourage more enterprises to participate in the star grading system.