DIRECTORATE: TOURISM DESTINATION DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION SERVICES
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:
Ms CK Mogale (Deputy Director: Tourism Transformation)
Email: MogaleCK@tourism.gov.za
Mr RJ Mabuela(Deputy Directors: Tourism Destination Development)
Email: : MabuelaRJ@ledet.gov.za
Mr TN Luvhengo (Deputy Directors: Tourism Destination Development)
Email: : LuvhengoTN@ledet.gov.za