Cabinet approves draft executive regulations on tourism

SANA'A, Sep.14 (Saba)- The
Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday the draft executive regulations of Law
No.22 for
2009 on tourism.
The draft executive regulations consists of 139 articles, divided into ten
chapters, including naming, definitions and tourism according to its available and
attractive
resources and purposes of tourist visits and their kinds.
It also includes tourist areas and sites and their classification and allocating
them for the tourism development according to their characteristics as well as
specifying
rules and measures of tourist facilities, environmental tourism, tourism jobs and
tourist activities.
On licensing fees, the value of these fees were kept as specified under the
Council's decree No.283 for 2001on the values and duties of local bases with the
addition of
the values of fees for facilities and jobs of new activities.
The ninth chapter included monitoring process and tourist inspections, while the
tenth chapter contained general provisions.
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