New bill on tourism prepared in Azerbaijan

  10 September 2015    Read: 1877
New bill on tourism prepared in Azerbaijan
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has prepared a new bill `On tourism` for improvement of legislative base in the sphere of tourism.
In line with the sources in the ministry, the new bill `On tourism` which reflected proposals and recommendations of the Twinning project experts of the World Tourism Organization and European Union, features the major institutional, regulatory and advanced experience for a more effective control of the tourism sphere.

In addition, the bill reflected the regulations on preparation of standards of corporate governance, and their definition as one of the main principle of state regulation in the sphere of tourism, creation and conduction of the state tourism register, new classification of the types of activity and services in tourism sphere, improvement of state regulation of tourism activity, classification of concluded deals in the sphere of tourism, preparation and implementation of the security concept, etc.

According to the ministry, application of this bill will promote further development of the tourism potential of Azerbaijan, raising effectiveness of business processes, regulation of tourism activity by the state and creation of broad opportunities on support of tourism industry.

The bill is currently at the stage of agreement between the due structures.

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