Cabinet approves $127,000 to facilitate classification of hotels

By Awan Achiek

Cabinet approved 127,000 U.S dollars to facilitate the classification of hotels operating in the country in a bid to ensure they meet international standards.

The money was approved after the Minister of Wild Life Conservation and Tourism, Rizig Zachariah Hassan, presented memo on hotels accommodation, hospitality, catering, classification and standardization before the cabinet.

“This was a very important presentation because now here in South Sudan, we have not classified the hotels. Everybody comes and he builds his hotels and he calls it whatever,” Michael Makuei Lueth, the Minister of Information, Communication Technology and Postal Services told journalists after weekly cabinet meeting in Juba.

Makuei noted that classification of hotels will enable customers to pay in accordance with the standard of the hotel.

He disclosed that cabinet approved 127,000 dollars to facilitate the work of an ad-hoc committee to classify hotels across the country.