{"id":1553,"date":"2014-07-21T07:36:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T06:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2016-07-20T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:02:20","slug":"tourism-burundi-adjustment-to-the-eac-standard-norms-on-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/tourism-burundi-adjustment-to-the-eac-standard-norms-on-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism: Burundi adjustment to the EAC standard norms on process"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe classification operates under three types of categories such as sensitization of economic and hotels\u2019 operators, pre-classification and assessment and classification\u201d, explains Khamisi Hasangirabakize, Legal Advisor in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Posts and Tourism<\/strong>.-By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

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Khamisi Hasangirabakize: \u201cThis will create a competition between EAC hotels and other touristic institutions. EAC hotels and other touristic institutions will have the same price according the required norms.\u201d \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

He indicates that the Ministry in partnership with EAC Secretariat trained 14 Burundian \u201cAssessors\u201d but among them 11 are certified. \u201cThey were trained and tested by EAC secretariat\u201d, says Hasangirabakize. The assessors will work closely with experts from EAC. \u201cThe Ministry has also implemented a technical committee in charge of classifying touristic institutions\u201d, he adds.
\nConcerning the first step, all economic and hotels\u2019 operators are aware of the activity. \u201cWe have gathered provinces in four groups such as Bujumbura City Council, Ngozi, Gitega and Rutana areas during the sensitization campaign\u201d, points out the Legal Advisor.
\nNow, he continues, \u201cthe Ministry is proceeding to identify hotels and other touristic institutions being classified\u201d.<\/p>\n

Those which will do not fulfil EAC requirement norms, will not be strongly recommended<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hotels and other touristic institutions must fulfil about 5000 standard norms as it is recommended by the international standard. According to the Legal Advisor in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Posts and Tourism, those which are going to miss the opportunity to be assessed and classified among the EAC standard norms will not be strongly recommended to tourists. \u201cThis will be a huge failure for our touristic managers in the country,\u201d regrets Hasangirabakize. The assessment and classification are made in the context of facilitating tourists to put in place the same EAC services within the same categories of hotels and restaurants.
\n\u201cThis will create a competition between EAC hotels and other touristic institutions. EAC hotels and other touristic institutions will have the same price according to the required norms\u201d, says Hasangirabakize.<\/p>\n

Thus, he recalls that whoever wants to build a hotel or other touristic institution should consult the Ministry in Charge of Building and Construction which will indicate all requirement norms before starting any construction. \u201cFurthermore, I take this opportunity to remind those who build hotels to take into consideration parking places and qualified staff personnel because they are highly considered \u201d, he recalls. It is worth reminding that from 23rd November 2012 to 4th February 2013, candidates learned how to classify touristic institutions in compliance with the established EAC criteria. The training somehow focused on the process of classification of hotels, restaurants and other touristic locations, the introduction to the standardization and classification of touristic institutions; criteria of classifying types of hotels, guest houses, restaurants according to their locations.
\nThe main motivation of Burundi in that training is the Article 115 of the Treaty establishing EAC. This one describes in particular the classification of hotels and the harmonization of the agents\u2019 professional norms of touristic industries within the community.
\nThe list of 14 \u201cAssessors\u201d was made on the basis of the advertisement made by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Posts and Tourism. It was addressed to different ministries and the private sector. The candidates must own a Bachelor\u2019s Degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe classification operates under three types of categories such as sensitization of economic and hotels\u2019 operators, pre-classification and assessment and classification\u201d, explains Khamisi Hasangirabakize, Legal Advisor in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Posts and Tourism.-By Diane Uwimana He indicates that the Ministry in partnership with EAC Secretariat trained 14 Burundian \u201cAssessors\u201d but among them 11 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[310,576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}