Minister Kumbaro announced this Thursday the approval of the new law on tourism.
At the end of the meeting of the council of ministers, Kumbaro said that the 2015 law did not respond to the reality and the new dynamics that tourism suffered last year.
“Today, at the first meeting of the government for this year, we approved changes to an important law. Tourism has been and will be the headline, the data is that it will be until 2030, the 2015 law did not respond to the reality and new dynamics where we have to accept that the private sector has moved faster, better and at a more positive pace.
Even the government’s vision is much more advanced than the 2015 law where the reality in the tourism sector was not what we have today.
This necessitated the need for legal changes, either for the new realities in the tourism market in the private sector, the new demands coming from the consumer, to give more guarantees for better quality services.
It is also a mechanism for the formalization of the tourism market. Demand growth has been faster than supply.
We guarantee fair competition, honest relationship with taxes in the state. Also tourism institutions that are within the ministry, it was necessary that the real practice be reflected in the new law. On the other hand, we give some incentives in the new law for year-round sustainable development, with offers.
We introduce some provisions that give greater importance to statistics in tourism. This draft has been in the works for months, it has been discussed at many tables and it is moving in parallel with two other initiatives, such as the national strategy of tourism 2024-2030, which will be closed within the spring of this year”, said Kumbaro.
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