Tourism

Purpose: To support and facilitate tourism development and transformation programmes

The directorate is responsible for the following:

• Oversee the implementation of national and provincial tourism strategies
• Provide support on destination planning initiatives within Limpopo province.
• Facilitate the integration of tourism with other related sectors, e.g. transport, creative industries, environment, events, etc.
• Facilitate tourism investment opportunities

• Facilitate tourism destination development initiatives
• Monitor the tourism infrastructure and facilitate the maintenance thereof
• Ensure enhancement of tourism destination initiatives through signage
• Manage tourism industry signage applications to relevant road authorities such as RAL and SANRAL
• Support planning and implementation for prioritised projects related to tourism infrastructure, product, experience and route development
• Support the resource mobilisation for community based tourism development initiatives

• Promote implementation of responsible tourism practices
• Support the creation of conducive environment for tourism to flourish thus contribute to economic growth and job creation

• Facilitate enablers for tourism growth

• Ensure implementation of targeted tourism capacity building, awareness and transformation programmes
• Facilitate tourism generic service excellence standards and norms within the industry
• Facilitate and support economic empowerment through enterprise development
• Implement the tourism awareness programmes within the tourism industry
• Promote tourism safety awareness campaigns

For more information on key programmes and initiatives within Tourism Destination Development and Transformation services unit , please contact: