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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town \u2013 The DA does not believe the Tourism Equity Fund will meet its intended targets of boosting South Africa\u2019s tattered tourism industry through improving the participation of black entrepreneurs in the sector.<\/p>\n

The R1.2 billion-strong Tourism Equity Fund was launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday.<\/p>\n

However, DA tourism spokesperson Manny de Freitas says while it is important that there are continued efforts to strengthen the participation of emerging entrepreneurs, it cannot happen at the expense of the tourism industry as a whole, especially not at a time when the industry is on its knees.<\/p>\n

According to the government, the aim of the fund is to improve participation of black South Africans in the tourism sector.<\/p>\n

De Freitas argues that incentives, such as training incentives to entrants in the sector and tax incentives as a relief to those hit hard during lockdown, would have much more of an impact.<\/p>\n

The DA intends to submit official questions about this fund, how it will disburse and monitor funds, and how tourism will benefit from it in real terms.<\/p>\n

\u2019\u2019As always, government\u2019s solutions for tourism remains one-dimensional \u2013 as if funding is the be-all and end-all to making tourism enterprises successful,\u201c De Freitas said.<\/p>\n

\u2019\u2019The irony seems to be missed by government in that it was their illogical lockdown regulations that decimated the sector and killed a million jobs.<\/p>\n

\u2019\u2019Another irony missed by Ramaphosa, who described the tourism sector as \u2019resilient\u2019 by nature, was that the resilience that he describes within tourism is despite government not because of it. In fact, government has caused huge destruction within the tourism sector.<\/p>\n

\u2019\u2019If government ensured that the basics were done, it would go much further than the limited amount available from this fund to a limited number of people.<\/p>\n

\u2019\u2019Our tourism sector would grow faster and would ensure a more inclusive and growing sector if the various spheres of government improved and maintained tourism infrastructure, tourism sites and related infrastructure, such as the construction of roads to inaccessible or hard-to-reach tourism sites and access to water and electricity to tourism attractions.<\/p>\n

\u2019\u2019By doing this, more people would be able to participate in the tourism sector without reliance on government funding, which, based on this government\u2019s performance, will be pilfered, lost by corruption and malmanagement or distributed to those within the inner circle of the ANC.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Africa. Cape Town \u2013 The DA does not believe the Tourism Equity Fund will meet its intended targets of boosting South Africa\u2019s tattered tourism industry through improving the participation of black entrepreneurs in the sector. The R1.2 billion-strong Tourism Equity Fund was launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday. 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