The new Standard hotel in french: a law passed by summer
Saturday 10 January 2009
The Law on the modernization of the hotel in french should be adopted by next summer. But asking hotels ranking 5 stars can carry the necessary steps since 1 January 2009.
The classification will be voluntary, revised every 5 years, and its cost will be borne by the professionals.
The diagnosis is unanimous: french hotel needs a serious blow to nine in terms of comfort and service. Hence the government action plan to review the hotel classification, 22 years after his birth. "France is building a hotel rating worthy of the first nation in the world tourism" has reminded Hervé Novelli, Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts, SMEs, tourism and services by signing the decree approving the new classification scale hotel, the first stone in this program to modernize the French tourist.
The new law on the modernization of the park hotel in french will be presented by the Council of Ministers in late January. The parliament should vote in the first half of 2009. The hotels have 36 months to be ranked after the publication of the law, during which old and new coexist classification. 5th star is created. A specific site will focus on the "palaces" and seeks to define a 5 * premium.
"This new schedule represents a move upmarket. It provides a guaranteed quality of service regulated, with the passage of a grid of 30 criteria, to another which has more than double ", the Secretary of State for Tourism. The mandatory criteria are supplemented by additional criteria of "a la carte".
The government plan is planning to assist institutions that generate sufficient margins for upgrading the Caisse des Depots et Oséo are solicited.
See speech by Hervé Novelli, Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts, SMEs, Tourism and Services
Source: The Express, the website of the Secretariat of State for Trade, Crafts, SMEs, tourism.