09/10/2024
[Ongoing] -
🚀 National Tourism Career Expo,
📍 Polokwane
The Deputy Minister of Tourism said in her opening address yesterday: "As government, specifically the department our approach is to assist people to upskill and future-proof themselves in this changing work environment to make an impact in elevating poverty, unemployment and inequality. Allow me to re-emphasise what we stated in the Tourism Budget Speech regarding the Youth Skills Development
Programmes:
✅ Over 1900 youth benefited from the Youth Skills Development Programmes
✅ 276 SMMEs in Tourism were trained on occupational health and safety norms and standards for safe tourism operations
✅ In 2023, 50 Chefs were enrolled in a Recognition of Prior Learning process to obtain a professional qualification in the Western Cape and Kwa-Zulu-Natal provinces
✅ For this financial year, the Department has planned to train 450 unemployed youth in various skills development programmes from a committed budget of twelve million rand and 2300 Tourism Monitors with a budget of hundred and forty million rand through EPWP funding."