Travel and Tourism Services Regulations [En]

Travel and tourism services activity may not be practiced without obtaining a license, after the expiry or cancellation of the license, or during its suspension period. Travel and tourism services shall be licensed pursuant to the following divisions: 1. (Accommodation Unit Reservation) Class, which is limited to providing services of marketing and managing reservations of the units of tourist accommodation facilities and private tourist accommodation facilities. 2. (Organizing Tours) Class, which is limited to providing the following services: a. Arranging accommodation services at the tourist accommodation facility; b. Arranging tourist guiding services; c. Arranging catering services in the tourist program; d. Arranging and implementing ground services for the tourist, such as receiving and seeing-off, transporting luggage, and the like; e. Arranging car rental services with or without a driver; f. Arranging insurance services for tourists; g. Arranging the services of reservations, visits to events, exhibitions, conferences, museums, natural reserves, markets, restaurants, and the like; h. Arranging and marketing educational or therapeutic services outside the Kingdom, as approved by the competent authorities; and i. Preparing, marketing, and implementing tourist programs of all types for those tourists inside the Kingdom. 3. (Travel and Tourism Agency) Class, which is limited to providing the following services: a. Selling travel tickets inside the Kingdom and abroad via different transportation means on behalf of the transportation companies, including sale of the services related thereto; b. Arranging accommodation services at the tourist accommodation facility; Chapter Two: License c. Arranging insurance services for tourists; d. Marketing the tourist program; e. Arranging the services of issuing visas to travel outside the Kingdom; and f. Arranging services for issuing international driving licenses and the like. 4. (General Travel and Tourism Services) Class, which is limited to providing the following services: a. All the services referred to in the Classes set out in Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3); b. Marketing tourist destinations; c. Arranging visa issuance services for visitors wishing to come to the Kingdom; d. Preparing, marketing, and implementing tourist programs of all kinds for visitors wishing to come to the Kingdom; e. Arranging, in coordination with transportation means, rented (land, sea, and air) transportation services in various sizes and seating capacity.