The Development Impacts of Tourism Supply Chains: Increasing Impact on Poverty and Decreasing Our Ignorance - Responsible Tourism: Critical Issues for Conservation and Development - page 119

Supplier Total

Employ Equity

100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%

Total BEE/E

Eco Issues

Aff. Procure

H & S Compl.

Supplier Score

CSI HR Practice

BCEA Labour Compl.

Note: Abbreviations (from the top): employment equity, total Black Economic Empowerment; affirmative
procurement; human resources practice; labour compliance; Basic Conditions of Employment Act; corporate
social investment; health and safety compliance; ecological issues.

Figure 6.5 Final scores on sustainable development categories for
suppliers to Spier Leisure

Spider graphs were used to illustrate how suppliers scored on each of the nine
areas of socioeconomic and environmental performance. The final scores from
Spier Leisure (Figure 6.5) show the extent to which suppliers were focusing
almost exclusively on legal compliance in areas of human resources, employment
equity and labour law, with very little attention given to areas such as corporate
social investment, affirmative procurement or ecological issues. Thus suppliers
were adhering to law and policy, but where voluntary initiatives or other actions to
support transformation were reviewed, the lack of motivation and action was
evident.
These results for Spier Leisure suppliers were broadly similar to those in the
other Spier businesses, as shown in Table 6.5. Wine business suppliers scored
somewhat better on ecological issues, but even worse on employment equity,
black economic empowerment and affirmative procurement. This suggests an
even slower rate of transformation in the wine industry, perhaps exacerbated by
the delays and redrafting of the Wine BEE charter.
The lack of supplier attention to environmental issues, despite the increasing
'environmental literacy levels' was striking: 61 per cent of respondents either did
not complete or deleted the environmental section of the questionnaire; 78 per
cent were taking no environmental action. Performance on corporate social
investment was even worse, with 81 per cent taking no action.
Before the survey, Spier had no way of judging what the scores would be.
When they came in, they were disappointing but Spier accepted these as being
reflective of the state of the supply chain. It was clear that suppliers were perform-
ing well below Spier's own record, as evaluated using the same questionnaire and
scoring process. As shown in Table 6.5, Spier's own business units scored from 62
to 72 per cent. On the positive side, it showed there was plenty of scope for
encouraging improvements in the supply chain.