Xabiso Mzwakali
City of Cape Town
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Phumzile Makhosana
Consultant
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“Attending this tourism awareness workshop has definitely given me insight into creating a new prospective in life. It was very informative and productive and I now realise how much we have to offer and to experience”, said Muneebah Cornelius after attending the City of Cape Town’s Tourism Awareness Workshop for Emerging Enterprises.
Hangberg and Imizamo Yethu residents attended the workshop on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 June.
Timothy Jacobs
HBBOF
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Mr. Timothy Jacobs, acting chairperson of the Hout Bay Business Opportunities Forum, explained that the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism fund these workshops and the Tourism Enterprise Programme manages the development. It is for new tourism entrepreneurs, offering skills and information to increase the success rate in tourism businesses.
The aim is to make a good decision about whether to start your own business, or not; see whether there are any tourism opportunities that can suit you in your local area and begin to develop a good business idea.
T. Jacobs continues, “It co-incises with the City’s Hangberg in-situ upgrading, the migration process from an informal settlement to formal housing. Broad-based black economic empowerment and job creation of our historical disadvantaged fishing community is a priority for this development and should allow for the automatic zoning of B&B’s, restaurants, coffee-shops and retail trade for emerging Hangberg entrepreneurs”.
What some participants had to say:
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Roeshdien Oktober |
“The workshop was a good thing for Hout Bay people” |
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Micaler Edson |
“Very interesting but a bit short” |
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Yasmin Latoe |
“Enjoyed it very much” |
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Lilian Jonkers |
“Now I have a better view of tourism” |
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Hailey De Wee |
“Very empowering of Government” |
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Joseph Louw |
“Excellent and educational” |
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