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The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has issued its own set of regulations for hotels and any other hospitality business operating within its free zone.
As part of the move, the Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) will remain responsible for regulation, supervision and enforcement of rules, while ADGM will be in charge of issuing permits and licenses.
This includes licenses to do with serving alcohol.
At the time of writing, these new regulations apply within Al Reem Island, which doesn’t have any hotels, and Al Maryah Island, home to Rosewood and Four Seasons in the capital.
The regulations aim to ensure that all entities established in ADGM and licensed to practice any business or activity related to the provision of a tourist, recuperation or recreational service to the public, including, but not limited to, hotels, resorts, restaurants, hotel apartments, holiday homes, cinemas, theatres, museums, tourist tours organisers, tourist transport companies and agencies, tourism offices, different recreational and refreshment facilities abide by the onshore legislation’s requirements.
The necessary permit
In terms of alcoholic drinks, the regulations state: “No person may serve alcoholic beverages in the Abu Dhabi Global Market unless the Registrar has issued a permit allowing that person to do so.”
Commenting on the new tourism regulations, Hamad Sayah Al Mazrouei, CEO of ADGM Registration Authority said, ADGM has always been proactive in taking initiatives for enhancing mutual strategic cooperation with the Abu Dhabi governmental bodies that contribute to achieving the Abu Dhabi’s economic goals.
In alignment with such initiative, ADGM has signed an Agreement for Cooperation and Delegation with the DCT to benefit from their expertise and extensive knowledge in regulating and monitoring hotels and tourism establishments operating within ADGM’s jurisdiction.
The adoption of the Abu Dhabi onshore hotel and tourism legislation within ADGM legislation provides hotel and tourism operators with comfort and assurance that ADGM and Abu Dhabi, as a whole, are aligned in terms of regulating the hotel and tourism sector, he added.
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