Grenada Adopts Accommodations Licensing Standard

Grenada has adopted a mandatory standard for the licensing of all hotels, guest houses, apartments and other properties that offer services in the accommodation sector of the tourism industry.

Grenada Bureau of Standard director Simeon Collins said that the purpose of the standard is to ensure that visitor satisfaction in terms of safety of facility, food offered for sale and services provided are of a high standard.

The standard requires for all properties to be inspected annually by a team from the Bureau of Standard, the Board of Tourism, the hotel association and the Ministry of Tourism. Those who fail to meet the requirements can have their license revoke.

For the purpose of the inspection, the requirements in the standard have been divided into six areas which are general requirements, building safety, food safety and sanitation, fire safety, furnishing and finishing, and swimming pools and other recreational waters.

Properties failing the inspection will be given no more than six months to rectify problems while those with critical problems can be banned from conducting business until the problem is solve.