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April 2005 Update of the PPT
pilots sites
This is the latest news about our what is happening at our
pilots sites in Southern Africa.
Spier Supplier Questionnaire
and Scorecard
In 2004, Spier undertook a survey of its existing supplier
relationships. Two files that were used for the survey are available on this
site for others to use or adapt as they need.
Click
Here for the Spier survey tools
UK Tour Operators
Opinions of Pro-Poor/ Transformational/ Responsible Tourism (February 2005)
In late 2004 the PPT Pilots programme undertook a short survey of some tour
operator attitudes on pro-poor/ responsible/transformational tourism. The
aim was to get UK tour operators’ opinions on how the development of
linkages and partnership at South African properties affect both themselves
and their clients, and to feed these responses back into its work in South
Africa.
Click here to read the full report
Business Implementation of Pro-Poor
Tourism: Case Study Briefs (January 2005)
These briefs were produced by the Pro Poor Tourism Pilots (Southern
Africa) Programme, as a way to share practical international examples of pro
poor actions with programme partners and others.There are eight briefs so
far in the Business Implementation of Pro-Poor Tourism Series. They cover
a diverse range of topics from branding to supply chains and tourism- agriculture
linkages.
Click here to view the full set of briefs
New project: Producing Tools
and Tips for the Tourism Industry on Local Buiness Linkages and Partnerships
(January 2005)
This project is to develop TOOLS AND TIPS for tourism companies on implementing
local linkages and partnerships, and enhancing local impact. The aim is to
assist those companies in South or Southern Africa that would like to do more,
but could benefit from practical advice and lessons from others on how. The
tools will be practical, provocative and frank.
Click here for further information
A different
way of doing business (January 2005)
This paper argues that the tourism sector needs to go much further in shifting
from philanthropic approaches to community benefit to pro-poor approaches
that entail doing business differently. It goes beyond generalisations about
what companies should do to look at some of the nitty gritty of how they can
implement changed practice and illustrates that there is much that ‘mainstream’
commercial tourism can do to embrace pro-poor approaches.
South
African Corporates Piloting Pro Poor Linkages: Procurement, Partnerships and
Products - A Presentation (November 2004)
This presentation by Caroline Ashley, Gareth Haysom and Zeph Nyathi was given
to the World Travel Market Meeting in London. It pulls together what has been
learnt so far from the PPT Pilots and the way forward from here. It was one
of four presentations given on the day.
Click
here to view the presentation
Click here to
view the other presentations
PPT Pilots submission on tourism BEE scorecard (November
2004).
The proposed Tourism BEE scorecard aims to encourage broader black
economic empowerment in the sector. But the PPT team is concerned that in
practice, some of the indicators will discourage, rather than encourage, the
smallest enterprises and poorest operators.
Updates
on PPT Pilots (October 2004)
In this third and final year, much is happening at Pilot sites. The first
new local enterprises and suppliers are up and running, with previously unemployed
people in new jobs, and more are in the pipeline. Partners are working on
increasing their procurement of goods and services from local SMMEs, developing
new community-based product for their guests, and strengthening their partnerships
with neighbouring communities.
Cheryl Carolus (CEO of South African Tourism) affirms
commitment to Fair Trade in Tourism and Pro-Poor Tourism Pilots in Southern
Africa (May 2003)
Speaking last night at an appreciation event for the partners and donors of
Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA) and Pro-Poor Tourism Pilots in
Southern Africa (PPT-Pilots), Cheryl Carolus, CEO of South African Tourism
highlighted the importance of a concerted effort to ensure the development
of a socially responsible tourism industry in South Africa.
Click here to read the
full story
Six mainstream tourism industry partners signed up to collaborate
in the programme
SunCity resort, Southern Sun hotels, Wilderness Safaris, Ker and Downey Tanzania,
Spier, and Tribe Africa Safaris have officially been confirmed as partners
to work with Mboza Tourism Projects and the Overseas Development Institute
on the Pro-Poor Tourism Pilots in Southern Africa programme. The aim of this
3 year programme is to develop and implement Pro-Poor Tourism strategies at
their sites that will impact on local poverty and make business sense to the
operator.
Click here
to read the full story
Launch of the Programme on September 19th
(2002)
Cheryl Carolus, CEO of South African Tourism, launched the new Pro-Poor Tourism
in Southern Africa programme on 19th September 2002 to increase the impact
of tourism development on poverty reduction in Southern Africa.
Click here to read the press release
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