Coming soon. A new system to determine the prices of hotels and furnished apartments

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The General Authority for Tourism and Antiquities in the region intends to launch a new system in the coming month of Ramadan that defines the minimum and maximum standards for the prices of residential apartments and hotels, in order to organize the supply and demand market according to quality and performance standards, and Al-Hassan indicated that the financial fine that the authority will adopt in the new system on hotels and furnished apartments that do not comply with the specified prices will reach 100 thousand riyals and may double to 200 thousand riyals.

According to Engineer Abdulaziz Al-Hassan, Director of the General Authority for Tourism and Antiquities in the Riyadh region, the Riyadh branch receives between 700 complaints against tourism service providers, including furnished apartments, hotels, travel and tourism agencies and tour operators, calling for the cooperation of these parties with the Tourism and Antiquities Authority by applying quality and performance standards, considering that all tourist hotels are partners with the Authority, and the goal is to support tourism in the Riyadh region.

Al-Hassan added that the Authority's branch receives between 500 and 700 complaints every month against tourism service providers. <Al-Hassan added that the Tourism and Antiquities Authority encouraged and supported the idea presented by the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh to present a competition for the most beautiful picture of the city of Riyadh, which will benefit the Tourism Development Council in the Riyadh region to support tourism programs. Al Hassan pointed out that the idea of launching a photo contest for Riyadh is the first global experience managed by the Four Seasons Hotel Group, and that Riyadh specifically is the first city where this contest is held with the promise to repeat it in a number of other cities and countries if its first experience in Riyadh is successful.

Riyadh's tourism development council will benefit from supporting tourism programs.