TOURISM SUPPORT PROGRAMME PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON TOURISM

1. TOURISM SUPPORT PROGRAMME PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON TOURISM THE ENTERPRISE ORGANISATION 7TH SEPTEMBER 2010

2. MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION Ms Tumelo Nkoane Acting Deputy Director General The Enterprise Organisation Ms Mandisa Silo Acting Director Tourism Industrial Development Division

3. CONTENTS • Introduction • Tourism Support Strategy • Tourism Support Programme Overview • Programme Description • Eligibility Criteria • Evaluation Criteria • Qualifying Activities • Non-Qualifying Activities • Qualifying Assets Non-Qualifying Assets Expansions Key Conditionalities for Payment Application Process Summary of Programme Performance Geographic Spread

4. INTRODUCTION TOURISM INVESTMENTS THE ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT PROGRAMME (EIP) TOURISM SUPPORT PROGRAMME (TSP) MANUFACTURING INVESTMENTS MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT PROGRAMME (MIP)

5. Tourism Support Programme Strategy Understand the market Choose the attractive segments Market the Destination Facilitate the removal of obstacles Facilitate the product platform Monitor and learn from tourist experience The Tourism Act’s mandate is ... Sustainable GDP Growth Sustainable job creation Redistribution and transformation Increase in tourist volume Increase in tourist spend Increase length of stay . . . through six key objectives . . . Improve geographic spread Improve seasonality patterns Promote transformation . . . by acting in a focused way to . . .

6. Tourism Support Programme Overview AIM • To stimulate job creation outside the traditional tourism destination clusters TARGETED OUTCOME • Increased BB-BEE participation • Increased Investment outside of the 3 metros of eThekwini, Cape Town and Joburg. Projects locating in marginalised areas within these are eligible to apply. PROGRAMME DURATION • Effective from July 2008 & available for 6 years until 2014

7. Programme Description OFFERING • Investment grant of up to 30% of qualifying investment costs in furniture, equipment, vehicles, land & buildings • Grant applicable is capped at a maximum of R30m, calculated in relation to the qualifying investment costs:

8. Programme Description • Investment projects ≤ R5m • grant equal to 30% of their qualifying investment costs, payable 3 year period. • Investment projects > R5m ≤ R30m • grant of between15% and 30% of their qualifying investment costs, calculated on a regressive scale, payable over a period of two (2) years. • Investment projects ≥ R30m • 15% grant payable over a period of two (2) years

9. Programme Description TARGET PROJECTS • Establishment of newor expansion of existing tourism facilities • Investment by projects capped at R200 million • Local and foreign owned projects • Applicant must be a registered entity in RSA (Companies, CCs, Co-ops, Community Trusts) • Projects that have not taken their investment assets into commercial operation

10. TSP Eligibility Criteria • Minimum job requirement

11. TSP Eligibility Criteria • Wages in line with hospitality sector wages as determined by Department of Labour • Achieve level (4) BB-BEE contributor status • Locate outside Metros of Cape Town, eThekwini & Johannesburg (marginalised areas in metros excluded) • Apply & receive approval before taking assets into commercial operation

12. Evaluation Criteria

13. Qualifying Activities • ACCOMODATION services dedicated to tourists (e.g. hotels, lodges, resort accommodation, guest houses, Bed &Breakfasts, backpacker facilities, self catering accommodation); • Passenger TRANSPORT services including road, rail, water dedicated to tourists and must be registered in South Africa(e.g., tourist transfer services, tourist trains, water, etc.); • TOUR OPERATORS • CULTURAL SERVICES dedicated to tourists (e.g. privately owned museums,); • RECREATION SERVICES dedicated to tourists (e.g. spa and wellness centres sport and recreation facilities that form part of other dedicated tourism products, etc.);

14. Non- Qualifying Activities • Fast food and take away restaurants, nightclubs, bars, gaming and gambling venues will not be considered • Franchised restaurants • Restaurants not attached to a tourism facility • Tourism investment as part of projects that include residential development, where the shareholder is one and the same as the residential developer, will not be considered – Policy to be reviewed

15. Non- Qualifying Activities • Conference facilities not attached to accommodation facilities • No investment in government-owned or partial government owned (e.g. PPP) projects will be considered. • No investment in arts and craft facilities will be considered as a separate development • No retail operations will be considered.

16. QUALIFYING ASSETS • Furniture, Fittings and Equipment • Owned land and buildings at cost. • The investment in land and buildings must constitute newly acquired land and buildings, whether as part of a new project or expansion, and must be owned by the applying entity. • The land costs must be directly associated with the purchase, renovation, or construction of a new tourism facility for the investment project under consideration, and must be located on land that has been zoned for commercial activity or multi-zoned . • The cost of the land may not exceed 20% of the investment cost in buildings/ land improvements for the purpose of the grant calculation

17. QUALIFYING ASSETS • Lease for land and buildings • Commercial Vehicles Only eligible if such vehicles are for tourist transfers from an accommodation facility, and/or have been specifically modified for particular tourism activities, e.g. tour operator vehicles and game drive vehicles. • Investment in vehicles by projects other than tour operators is capped at 20% of the qualifying investment.

18. NON-QUALIFYING ASSETS INVESTMENT COSTS • Assets acquired by way of an operational lease agreement • Passenger vehicles (i.e. non-commercial vehicles) and • Damaged assets or assets not utilised for the qualifying production process • Revaluated assets • VAT and finance charges on assets • Rates and taxes • Sports cars; • Commercial vehicles (e.g. trucks, tractors, bakkies, etc.); • Imported second-hand assets; and • Refurbished existing operations

19. Expansions • The project must increase capacity (rooms or seats etc) of current operations by 35% in year 1. • The entity must show an increase (over and above total qualifying historic costs) in qualifying investment of at least 35%; • The expansion must demonstrate an increase in projected revenue of 15% in the 1st year of operation and 25%increase in the 2nd year of operation above the revenue as reflected in the base year financial statements; and • The Entity must achieve both the minimum number of total jobs for the project and minimum net increase in new full-time employment opportunities from the base year as stipulated in the Table B below

20. KEY CONDITIONALITIES FOR GRANT PAYMENT • Achieve 70% of projected investment • Achieve 70% of projected turnover • Maintain 100% of stipulated employment levels • Pay wages in line with hospitality sector rates • Achieve and maintain BB-BEE level 4 contributor status

21. Application procedure

22. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE(Inception – July 2010) • TSP approved 220 projects with projected investment of R3,8 bil and 5,421 projected jobs. • Grant commitments for the TSP total R490m, with a projected incentive per job ratio of R90,389. • Of the approved TSP projects, 85%are new establishment projects and 15% are expansion projects and • 115 of all approved projects have started operation (end March 2010). • 93% of approved projects are BEE level 4 contributors with the rest being expected to achieve level 3 contributor status by the end of the first year of being in operation. • Approved 69% of adjudicated applications

23. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE(Inception – July 2010) Ave. Projected Investment R3.4m Ave. No. Projected Jobs – 8 Ave. Grant – R2.7m Ave. Projected Investment – R35m Ave. No. Projected Jobs - 46

24. Gauteng: MIP: 27 % TSP: 22 % North West: MIP: 4 % TSP: 11 % Limpopo: MIP: 5 % TSP: 12 % Mpumalanga: MIP: 3 % TSP: 9 % Northern Cape: MIP: 2 % TSP: 2 % Kwa Zulu Natal: MIP: 16 % TSP: 9 % Free State: MIP: 1 % TSP: 9 % Western Cape: MIP: 28 % TSP: 16 % Eastern Cape: MIP: 13 % TSP: 11 % GEOGRAPHIC SPREAD Provincial Spread

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