The national Department of Tourism said on Tuesday it would implement a transformation policy in 2016 aimed at advancing women’s participation in the tourism industry.
Deputy Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa announced in Pretoria that the department’s executive development programme for women in the tourism sector would be launched in March next year.
“This follows the study conducted in 2011 by the Tourism B-BBEE Charter Council to assess the state of transformation in the tourism sector‚” said Xasa.
“Not surprisingly‚ the study found that there is a low percentage of women at board and executive management levels of large enterprises in the tourism sector.
“The low percentage was attributed mainly to the unavailability of women managers in the sector with the required qualifications‚ skills profile and experience for promotion to the executive management and board positions.”
Xasa was speaking at a Women in Tourism breakfast hosted by the department in collaboration with the City of Tshwane under the theme “Opening the Doors for Young Women in Tourism”.
“To address this challenge‚ the department will partner with a distinguished South African business school to provide an executive development programme for women in the tourism sector‚” she said.
“We will provide in-depth training at the core of running a successful business such as finance‚ strategy‚ leadership‚ marketing‚ organisational dynamics and globalisation‚ governance and ethics etc.
“The programme is envisaged to be accredited at National Qualification Framework level 8‚ and tuition fees will be covered by the department. Because the programme is meant to empower women‚ candidates will be drawn from all the nine provinces and local levels.”
The City of Tshwane announced that it would contribute to this initiative by launching a skills programme‚ starting 2016‚ that would see five women annually going to study hospitality at an institution in the Netherlands.
Development programme for women in tourism to be launched in 2016
The national Department of Tourism said on Tuesday it would implement a transformation policy in 2016 aimed at advancing women’s participation in the tourism industry.
Deputy Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa announced in Pretoria that the department’s executive development programme for women in the tourism sector would be launched in March next year.
“This follows the study conducted in 2011 by the Tourism B-BBEE Charter Council to assess the state of transformation in the tourism sector‚” said Xasa.
“Not surprisingly‚ the study found that there is a low percentage of women at board and executive management levels of large enterprises in the tourism sector.
“The low percentage was attributed mainly to the unavailability of women managers in the sector with the required qualifications‚ skills profile and experience for promotion to the executive management and board positions.”
Xasa was speaking at a Women in Tourism breakfast hosted by the department in collaboration with the City of Tshwane under the theme “Opening the Doors for Young Women in Tourism”.
“To address this challenge‚ the department will partner with a distinguished South African business school to provide an executive development programme for women in the tourism sector‚” she said.
“We will provide in-depth training at the core of running a successful business such as finance‚ strategy‚ leadership‚ marketing‚ organisational dynamics and globalisation‚ governance and ethics etc.
“The programme is envisaged to be accredited at National Qualification Framework level 8‚ and tuition fees will be covered by the department. Because the programme is meant to empower women‚ candidates will be drawn from all the nine provinces and local levels.”
The City of Tshwane announced that it would contribute to this initiative by launching a skills programme‚ starting 2016‚ that would see five women annually going to study hospitality at an institution in the Netherlands.
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