Licensing Unit

The Tourism Authority operates a Licensing Unit which receives applications processed by other operational units and refers them to the Licensing Committee.

The Licensing Committee consists of all members of the Board of the Tourism Authority. This sub-committee is chaired by the Chairperson of the Board of the Tourism Authority. Meetings of the Licensing Committee are normally organizes once a week to consider:

• Applications for a New, Renewal, Variation or Re-Issue of a Tourist Enterprise Licence
• Applications for a New , Renewal, Variation or Re-Issue of a Pleasure Craft Licence
• Suspension and revocation of Tourist Enterprise Licences/ Pleasure Craft Licences
• Cancellation of Tourist Enterprise Licences/ Pleasure Craft Licences
• Issue, Re-issue, suspension, revocation and Cancellation of authorisations to canvass (issued to pleasure craft operators)
• Policies, Guidelines and Conditions pertaining to Tourist Enterprise Licences/ Pleasure Craft Licences as well as authorisations to canvass

The Licensing Unit implements the decisions of the Licensing Committee. In this respect, the Unit ensures that:​

• Letters of intent are issued
• Letters of compliance are issued
• Print and issue licences for cases approved for the first time, renewal, reissue as well as issue duplicate licences
• Liaise with other institutions for speedy delivery of clearances

The Composition of the Licensing Committee (LC)is as follows: