The ETEYA (Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year Award) Award winners will be announced this week at South Africa’s leading travel trade show Indaba in Durban
The Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP) has taken an even more active role in the ETEYA Awards from this year as part of its vision to be the premier small business development partner for tourism. As official co-sponsors, together with South African Tourism and South African Breweries, the organisation has provided free consulting services to the finalists, including product and skills development to assist the tourism enterprises to grow from strength to strength.
During March, TEP sponsored the nine provincial finalists to attend ITB in Germany. The aim of the trip was to provide international market access and exposure. TEP provided a two-day pre-ITB preparatory training session, supported them at the stand and debriefed them at the end of each day to improve the experience of a global tourism trade show.
TEP Chief Executive, Siva Pillay says: “ETEYA is one of those awards which really align with the role of TEP. Our business is about finding and nurturing small tourism businesses around the country and our focus is on ensuring a consistent, sustainable, quality product and service delivery from smaller tourism offerings. ETEYA rewards entrepreneurs who achieve just this.”
TEP has had the opportunity to work with all the 2009 finalists of the ETEYA Awards, providing mentorship and skills programmes suited to their particular needs.
