Directorate General of Tourism Development

​Responsibilities


1- Designing, planning and implementing quality control for all tourism products.

2- Issuing licenses for all tourism services including hotels, tour operators, travel agents …etc.

3- Monitoring all provision of accommodation and other tourism services to ensure compliance with the Ministry's rules and regulations.

4- Setting up standards for quality in all tourism services.

5- Preparing studies related to the tourism activity classification and rating, and applying them to various tourism activities.

6- Working and coordinating with all hotels and other tourist accommodation providers, to raise quality standards to an international level.

7- Encouraging local and foreign investment through a set of investment incentives, providing technical support for it, studying the obstacles facing investors and finding appropriate solutions to them.

8- Providing services to investors to facilitate their mission, such as available investment opportunities and field visits to the proposed sites in coordination with the concerned entities.

9- Preparing technical specifications and terms of reference for consultancy work for government tourism projects, analyzing offers, and following up on their implementation

10- Identify, study, and evaluate the natural and cultural vocabulary and tourism components to be employed in the tourism product industry of all kinds

11- Inclusion of the concept of sustainability and true partnership with the local community and relevant entities.

12- Collecting suggestions, complaints and feedback from citizens, tourists, and all companies working in this field, in order to improve the quality of services.



Director General:  

Tel: 22088223

Email: ​IMawali@mht.gov.om



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