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The Tourism Ministry will begin implementing a new system to determine hotel star ratings based on feedback from hotel guests, as well as assessments from ministry employees and a Spanish hotel rating company, Chamber of Tourism Establishments board member Tamer Nabil said, according to Al Shorouk<\/a>. The new approach will also see the ministry distinguish between criteria used to assess hotels resort towns and those applied to hotels in major cities. We noted last year<\/a> that a hotel\u2019s government-assigned star rating will be a factor in determining how much this property will be paying in real estate taxes under a new tax calculation agreement reached between the finance and tourism ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tourism Ministry will begin implementing a new system to determine hotel star ratings based on feedback from hotel guests, as well as assessments from ministry employees and a Spanish hotel rating company, Chamber of Tourism Establishments board member Tamer Nabil said, according to Al Shorouk. 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