Directorate General of Tourism Development

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

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

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

Setting up standards for quality in all tourism services.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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