Tourism Activity Licensing

 

 

Tourism Accommodation:

 

Licensing requirements is based on the understanding of the needs and necessities of the user (tourist and investor) and all the affected industry, as an important input to ensure that quality is established in the early stages of all operations (operational elements such as, Regulatory, Human Resources and appropriate Working Environment),  in persistent partnership with the supervising agencies of public and the private sectors during each phase, to ensure availability of quality desired by the user and to ensure the integration of the business practices with required control for the smooth operations.

 

Tourism accommodation includes the following elements:

 

 

1-    Hotels:

 

·         Investor directory

·         Steps for obtaining license

·         Appendix

·         List of licensees

 

 

 

2-    Furnished Accommodation Units:

 

·         Investor directory       

·         Steps for obtaining license

·         Appendix

·         List of licensees

 

 

 

3-    Tourism Trips Organizers:

 

Tourism trip organizer is considered as a key element for developing and promoting tourism industry through designing, marketing and executing integrated tourism programs and activities, which will contribute to the incrementing of the domestic tourism momentum, besides giving the tourist an enjoyable and distinguished tourism experience.

 

·         List of licensees

·         Electronic access system

 

 

 

4-    Tourism and Travel Agencies:

 

These are entitled to sell, purchase and book travel tickets inside and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia across different modes of transport as well as marketing tourism trips programs to the tourists that are provided by tourism trip organizers.

 

·         Investor directory

·        Access to the system

·         List of licensees

 

 

 

5-    Tourist Guides:

 

Tourist guide is an ambassador inside and outside his country. He also has a distinguished and prominent role in creating a positive impression on the tourist who visits his country.  His role also includes towards developing and activating tourism in the Kingdom, taking into consideration that, it is an attractive activity as a paid job for spending holidays in the company of a variety of tourist groups.  

·         Appendix

·         List of licensees

·         Electronic access system

 

 

 

6-     “Timeshare” Program Looks to Future:

 

The high degree of optimism expressed by various economic and real estate communities in the tourist industry concerning the future of “Timeshare”, in the GCC countries in general and Saudi Arabia in particular, is justified and reasonable due to the increased government interest and awareness of the growing importance of the tourism industry for its role in stimulating local economies by supplementing  income from local as well as foreign tourism.  

 

·         Investor directory

·         Charges