The Department of Tourisms Green Tourism Incentive Programme (GTIP) established in 2017 to partially cover retrofitting tourism facilities with energy and water efficiency equipment has approved 216 applications with a total grant value of over R140 million (7.1m).
Provincial distribution of the GTIP approvals shows domination by the Eastern Cape (53), Western Cape (48) and Gauteng (34) followed by Limpopo (22), KwaZulu-Natal (20), North West (15), Mpumalanga (12), Northern Cape (eight) and Free State (four).
Among her outreach activities, Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille has inspected solar PV installations at two Gauteng-based tourism establishments the Timosha and The View guesthouses that benefit from the GTIP.
Timosha, a three-star, 100% black woman-owned establishment qualified for grant funding of 90% of the implementation cost equivalent to R730000 (37 100) for proposed energy and water-saving interventions.
The installations were completed in February 2024 and a savings verification will be conducted to determine the impact over time.
