Tourism sector

Tourism board management on Mithaq

Tourism boards, hotel associations, destination committees.

What a tourism board is accountable for

A destination board spends public or levy money to benefit private operators, and is judged on an outcome it only partly controls. Its governance risk sits in procurement and in the fairness of who gets promoted.

What recurs on the agenda

01Marketing and campaign spend approval, with the member-benefit test applied to each
02Event calendar commitments and the multi-year obligations they create
03Grading, classification or licensing decisions affecting individual operators
04Levy collection, exemptions granted, and the register of who was exempted and why
05Destination performance reported against a baseline, not against ambition

Exemptions are where destination boards lose credibility. A register that names every exemption and its reason is cheap; reconstructing one after a question is not.

Powered by the Mithaq core

Tourism tenants run on Mithaq's 42 universal governance modules: meetings, decisions, audit trail, members, documents, contracts, budget, accounts and the rest. Sector-specific modules appear here when we onboard the first customer in the sector; we do not advertise a module before it ships.

Types of tourism board

Tourism is broad. These are the kinds of board we onboard, and what each one loads.

Tourism board

مجلس السياحة

Destination tourism authority or board.

42 modules visible. No extra type-specific modules; this runs the Mithaq core plus the sector set as-is.

Hotel association

جمعية فنادق

Hotels or hospitality industry association.

43 modules visible, 1 specific to this type: Occupancy benchmarks

Run your tourism board on Mithaq

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