Tourist Enterprise Licence

A Tourist Enterprise Licence is issued to an enterprise which is an establishment or activity run or carried on for the purpose of providing services or goods to tourists for reward, whether monetary or otherwise. Click here for the list of tourist enterprises which requires a Tourist Enterprise Licence .

• Application procedures for a Tourist Enterprise Licence
• Guidelines (Criteria) for the following enterprises (Click on links below to download):
  • Restaurant
  • Table d’hôte
  • Night Club
  • Private Club
  • Pub
  • Helmet Diving
  • Tour Operator

 

• Criteria for Investment by Non-Citizen for these categories of tourist enterprises(Click on links below to download) :
  • Tour Operator
  • Restaurant-Foreign participation is authorised in new and existing restaurant projects provided added value is bought in terms of investment, innovation, new cuisines, filling-in gaps in the tourism product portfolio and quality standards.
  • Diving Centres-Foreign shareholding is allowed up to 30%
  • Boat House-Foreign Investment in Boathouses is favourably entertained in cases where the promoter
  1. is holder of a permanent residence permit
  2. is the spouse of a Mauritian citizen in accordance with the “regime legal de communauté”           

• Checklist for applicaion for a Tourist Enterprise licence for the following activities (Click on links below to download)
  
  

  Restaurant	Table D’hôte	Nightclub
  Private Club	Pub	Dolphin and whale watching
  Eco-tourism activities (nature-based tourism activities or adventure-related tourism activities, or both)	Hawking in Tourist Sites	Operating helmet diving centre
  Karting	Operating aquarium displaying fish or marine animals for public viewing	Operating boat house
  Operating Cable Car	Operating golf course	Operating rental agency for bicycle
  Operating rental agency for bus, including minibus	Operating rental agency for kite surf	Operating rental agency for motorcycle
  Operating rental agency for quad	Operating rental agency for paraglide	Operating rental agency for windsurf
  Operating scuba diving centre	Operating Spa	Operating travel agency
  Providing non-motorised water sports such as pedaloes, canoes, kayaks and laser	Providing tour operator service	Working as tourist guide, including tourist guide employed by a tour operator

 

• Fees for the issue and renewal of a Tourist Enterprise Licence