Changes in the application documentation and proceedings of inspection, suspension and revocation of license to exercise the activity of travel agency and touristic operator

Official Bulletin no.39, dated 7 March 2017

On 13.2.2017, the Minister of Economic Development, Tourism, Trade and Entrepreneurship issued directive no. 1192 through which it makes some changes to its previous directive “For the application documentation and proceedings of inspection, suspension and revocation of license to exercise the activity of travel agency and touristic operator”.

The first change was made to paragraph 2, where the letter “a” now includes as a requirement to obtain a license for travel agency operations an undergraduate diploma of the first cycle of studies in the field of tourism / economic sciences / geography / history / archeology and cultural heritage / foreign languages issued by universities in Albania or abroad or a master’s degree in economic sciences/ tourism or diploma issued by IATA in the field of tourism or diploma of secondary vocational school for tourism or any professional qualification degree in tourism, for the technical director or legal representative(administrator). Also, university diplomas issued by foreign universities must be recognized by the Ministry responsible for Education and documents issued abroad must be translated into Albanian and notarized.

The second change is the one carried out in paragraph 4, letter “a” under which for the issuance of the license for the activity of touristic operator is required an undergraduate diploma of at least the first cycle of studies in the fields of tourism / economic sciences / geography / history / archeology and cultural heritage languages, issued by universities in Albania or abroad or a master’s degree in economic sciences / tourism or diploma issued by IATA in the field of tourism, for the technical director and legal representative (administrator). In addition, university diplomas issued by foreign universities must be recognized by the Ministry responsible for education and diplomas issued by IATA in the field of tourism should be translated into Albanian and notarized.