Chương 4 Nghị định 27/2001/NĐ-CP: Quản lý nhà nước về kinh doanh lữ hành, hướng dẫn và vận chuyển khách du lịch

Chapter IV

STATE MANAGEMENT OVER TOUR BUSINESS, TOURIST GUIDING AND TRANSPORTATION OF TOURISTS

Article 17.- The State management over tour business, tourist guiding and transportation of tourists

1. The General Department of Tourism shall exercise the State management over tour business and tourist guiding; propose to the Government policy mechanisms on tourism, promulgate, according to its competence, guiding documents and organize the implementation of legal documents on tour, tourist guiding, provide information on tourism; coordinate with the ministries and branches in guiding localities to exercise the State management over tourism, inspect and handle violations according to law provisions.

2. The General Department of Tourism shall publicly announce the conditions and procedures for the granting of international tour business licenses so that enterprises have grounds to draw up and implement tourist programs and make business registration.

3. The General Department of Tourism has the responsibility to inspect and supervise the granting of tourist guide’s cards and handle violations according to current law provisions, including the withdrawal of papers of authorization to grant tourist guide’s cards.

4. The General Department of Tourism shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Culture and Information to define conditions and training establishments competent to grant certificates of tourist guides fostering, certificates of tourism foreign languages prescribed in Clauses 3 and 4, Article 13 of this Decree.

5. The Ministry of Communications and Transport shall assume prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned branches and localities in guiding in detail the criteria and conditions on means and operators of means for the transportation of tourists.

6. The State management bodies in charge of tourism in the provinces and centrally-run cities shall exercise the management of tour business activities, practice of tourist guding, transportation of tourists in localities; guide and inspect the observance of business conditions in localities according to the provisions of law.