Vote: Tourism
Output Class - Policy Advice - Tourism
This output class involves the provision of advice on economic, environmental and social policy affecting tourism including implementation of programmes to advance the recommendations of the New Zealand Tourism Strategy 2010 (NZTS 2010) and the Government's wider objectives as they relate to the sector, including tourism aspects of major events. It includes the provision and management of tourism research and data to assist in sector decision-making. Further outputs include advice on the government's interests as owner of Tourism New Zealand, the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, and on the government's land and property holdings. The following outputs are included in this output class for 2004/2005.
Core Policy Advice
Reflecting the government's role as having primary responsibility for implementing the NZTS 2010 the Ministry will provide advice on priorities and will take responsibility to implement these, in partnership with other sector stakeholders as appropriate.
The Ministry will provide advice on policy issues of concern to the Government, the sector and communities including:
- the provision of infrastructure to sustain tourism growth;
- the development of Māori tourism;
- the interaction between tourists and the physical environment (in particular the conservation estate) and the cultural environment;
- increased awareness and capability of local governments to deal with tourism; and
- increasing the capability of the industry through work at the sector level (labour markets) firm level (SME capability development) and individual level (education and training).
Advice on Purchase, Grants and Ownership
This output provides advice on the purchase of services from Tourism New Zealand. Particular focus will be placed on ensuring that the structure and content of the purchase agreement allows for efficient and effective monitoring of Tourism New Zealand's activities and spending. Advice on the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute is also included in this output.
Research and Statistics
This output provides tourism research and statistics and policy advice on the research needs of the tourism sector. In particular, the Ministry will ensure that the Government's current tourism data set is increasingly accessible to and used by the private sector in its decision making, and that an applied research programme that is relevant to both public and private sector needs is developed.
Advice and Assistance on Major Events
Through continuing chairmanship of the Interagency Major Events Group the Ministry will contribute to the development and implementation of a major events strategy to ensure that whole of government goals for events are realised. The Ministry will ensure that expenditure on events channelled through Vote Tourism is properly monitored and accounted for.
Land and Property Management
This output class involves the management of tourism and other concessions at Wairakei and Rotorua to ensure that risks are appropriately managed, commercial returns are achieved on property holdings, and all legal and contractual obligations are met. Advice will be provided on ensuring that tourism concessionaires are protected throughout the process of resolving outstanding land occupation issues with Contact Energy.
Service Performance
Policy advice will be delivered as agreed with the Minister and as detailed in the Ministry of Economic Development Output Plan.
Generic quantity, quality and timeliness performance measures for all policy advice, Ministerial services and briefings supplied by the Ministry of Economic Development are detailed in Quality Standards for Policy Advice and Ministerial Servicing.
Costs: Output Class - Policy Advice - Tourism
| | 2004/2005
Forecast | 2003/2004
Supple-
mentary
Estimates | 2003/2004
Estimated
Actual |
| | $000 | $000 | $000 |
| Revenue Crown | 6,289 | 4,861 | 4,861 |
| Third Party Revenue | 101 | 101 | 101 |
| Expenses | 6,390 | 4,962 | 4,962 |
| Surplus/(Deficit) | - | - | - |
From 2004/2005 the Land and Property Management output class is to be subsumed into the Policy Advice output class. For comparative purposes the 2003/2004 amounts reflect the new output class structure established from 2004/2005. Revenue Crown and associated expenditure for Land and Property Management was $157,000 in 2003/2004.
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