In Samarkand, the owners of family guest houses - participants of the pilot project were awarded certificates of assigning a category to a family guest house
On April 14 of this year, in Samarkand, in the building of the International University of Tourism "Silk Road", a ceremony was held to present certificates of awarding the family guest house category to the owners of family guest houses.
Categories (from one to three stars) were assigned to family guest houses based on the results of the classification, which took place as part of a pilot project on the classification of family guest houses.
Certificates to the owners of family guest houses were presented by representatives of Association of Private Tourism Agencies of Uzbekistan and the Deputy Head of the Main Department of Tourism and Cultural Heritage of the Samarkand region Rahmonov Jasur.
A draft classifier for family guest houses, as well as a badge of rating stars and a certificate were developed by the Association of Private Tourism Agencies of Uzbekistan as part of the USAID's Future Growth Initiative (FGI) project "Development of Community Based Tourism in Uzbekistan by improving the professional competence of rural residents. Phase 2".
Based on the results of the evaluation of family guest houses in the Samarkand region, in accordance with the draft classifier, out of 31 family guest houses, a category (from one to three stars) was assigned to 16 family guest houses (51.6% of the above accommodation facilities - participants in the pilot project).
There are: 1 family guest houses are assigned the category "three stars", 5 family guest houses have been awarded the category "two stars" and 10 family guest houses have been rated "one star".
The certificate of category assignment by the Association of Private Tourism Agencies of Uzbekistan is valid for three years from the date of issue.