RIYADH — The Ministry of Tourism emphasised that constructing house owners in Makkah and Madinah should adjust to rules prohibiting the operation of any vacationer hospitality exercise and not using a license. It additionally confused that buildings licensed by the ministry as short-term lodging services for pilgrims might solely function throughout the Hajj season.
That is a part of the ministry’s efforts to manage the hospitality sector, particularly housing pilgrims, and improve the standard of hospitality providers supplied in preparation for the upcoming Hajj season. The ministry has labored to prepare the pilgrims’ lodging sector by introducing a service to concern short-term lodging facility licenses to constructing house owners in Makkah and Madinah.
It has additionally launched a service enabling vacationer hospitality services to extend their lodging capability throughout the Hajj season in accordance with rules accredited by the ministry. These providers are restricted solely to the Hajj season.
These providers have elevated the hospitality sector’s lodging capability in Makkah and Madinah, enhanced the sector’s readiness to obtain pilgrims, and supplied regulated services that supply high quality lodging providers.
The ministry introduced that the penalty for working a vacationer hospitality exercise and not using a license can attain as much as SR1 million. It additionally famous that holders of short-term lodging licenses, who function earlier than the Hajj season, shall be thought of in violation of licensing necessities and shall be topic to fines of as much as SR1 million, along with the cancellation of the short-term lodging license.
