Culture and Leisure

The licencee of a bar or restaurant can opt to delegate the actual operations to another person, provided that the licencee gives his/her consent and registers it.

A licence is required to rent property on long lease to foreigners.

Through this scheme tourism operators are granted assistance to conduct international promotion in the following niches: diving; sports and adventure tourism, religious tourism, and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Event).

Any collective accomodation development requires a licence from the Malta Tourism Authority. Collective accomodation is commonly defined as an accomodation establishment that provides lodging for the traveller in a room or some other unit, but the number of places it provides must be greater than a minimum for groups of persons exceeding a single family unit. Furthermore, all the places in the establishment must come under a common commercial type-management, even if it is non-profit making. Collective accommodation includes hotels, and other hotel-type accommodation establishments like apart-hotels, serviced apartments, hostels, guest houses, boutique hotels, tourist villages and other similar establishments as decreed by the Authority.

Tourism operators who transfer their business are also required to transfer their licence.