DECISION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA ON ESTABLISHING THE CONTENT, THE PROCEDURE AND FORMS FOR SUBMISSION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE INFORMATION OF TOURISM SERVICE PROVIDERS REGISTERED IN THE ELECTRONIC REGISTRER ON PERSONS PROVIDING TOURISM SERVICES

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Government of the Republic of Armenia
Ընդունման ամսաթիվ
12.02.2026
Ստորագրող մարմին
Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
Ստորագրման ամսաթիվ
12.02.2026
Ուժի մեջ մտնելու ամսաթիվ
01.07.2026

OFFICIAL TRANSLATION

 

DECISION

 

OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

 

No 136-N of 12 February 2026

 

ON ESTABLISHING THE CONTENT, THE PROCEDURE AND FORMS FOR SUBMISSION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE INFORMATION OF TOURISM SERVICE PROVIDERS REGISTERED IN THE ELECTRONIC REGISTRER ON PERSONS PROVIDING TOURISM SERVICES

 

Based on part 2 of Article 7 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On tourism”, the Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby decides:

1. To establish:

(1) the content of information of tourism service providers registered in the electronic register on persons providing tourism services, pursuant to Annex No 1;

(2) the procedure and form for submission and maintenance of information of tourism service providers registered in the electronic register on persons providing tourism services, pursuant to Annex No 2.

2. This Decision shall enter into force on 1 July 2026.

3. The requirement prescribed by subpoint 3 of point 5 of Annex No 1 to this Decision shall enter into force following the entry into force of the secondary regulatory legal act provided for by part 6 of Article 15 of the Law “On tourism”.

 

Prime Minister

of the Republic of Armenia

N. Pashinyan

 

Yerevan

 

12 February 2026

CERTIFIED BY

ELECTRONIC

SIGNATURE


Annex No 1

to the Decision of the Government

of the Republic of Armenia

N 136-N of 12 February 2026

 

THE CONTENT OF INFORMATION OF TOURISM SERVICE PROVIDERS REGISTERED IN THE ELECTRONIC REGISTER ON PERSONS PROVIDING TOURISM SERVICES

 

1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

1. The following main concepts shall be used in this Annex:

(1) register — a database, referred to in the Law “On public information”, relating to persons providing tourism services, covered by the Law “On tourism”;

(2) person providing tourism services — persons providing tourism services specified in points 1-5 of part 1 of Article 10 of the Law “On tourism”;

(3) Law — the Law “On tourism”.

2. This Annex shall define the content of the information to be submitted by a person providing tourism services for the purpose of maintaining the register.

 

2. THE CONTENT OF INFORMATION OF PERSONS PROVIDING TOURISM SERVICES, SUBJECT TO PUBLICATION FROM THE REGISTER

 

3. The open information subject to publication from the register shall be as follows:

(1) day, month, year of record-registration of the notification;

(2) record-registration number of the notification;

(3) name of the legal person, name and surname of the individual entrepreneur, taxpayer identification number and registered address, and in case of a natural person not acting as an individual entrepreneur — name and surname;

(4) place for activities subject to notification (to be indicated, if, pursuant to the Law “On notification on the conduct of activities”, the activities subject to notification must be conducted only in the place indicated in the notification);

(5) type of offered services, pursuant to points 1-5 of part 1 of Article 10 of the Law;

(6) classifier of the types of economic activities;

(7) contact information (mobile phone number, e-mail address);

(8) day, month, year, and reference number of the decision on suspension, termination, or lifted suspension of the right to engage in activities subject to notification, the day, month, and year of lifting the suspension.

 

3. REQUISITES OF INFORMATION ON PERSONS PROVIDING TOURISM SERVICES

 

4. The information, to be notified through platform tools of Tourism Committee, relating to a person providing tourism services must contain at least the following requisites:

(1) in case of a legal person providing tourism services or an individual entrepreneur —

a. name of the legal person or name and surname of the individual entrepreneur;

b. reference number of the state registration certificate of the legal person or that of the record-registration certificate of the individual entrepreneur;

c. registered address;

d. taxpayer identification number;

e. place for activities, if, pursuant to the Law “On notification on the conduct of activities”, the activities subject to notification must be conducted only in the place indicated in the notification;

f. type of activities subject to notification, which the person submitting the notification intends to conduct;

g. contact information (mobile phone number, e-mail address);

(2) in case of a natural person providing tourism services —

a. name, surname, social services number;

b. address of record-registration or preferred address for receiving notifications;

c. place for the conduct of activities, if, pursuant to the Law “On notification on the conduct of activities”, the activities subject to notification must be conducted only in the place indicated in the notification;

d. reference number, date of issuance, and validity period of the passport, if the notifying person is a foreign national;

e. type of activities subject to notification, which the person submitting the notification intends to conduct;

f. contact information (mobile phone number, e-mail address);

(3) other data referred to in points 5 and 6 of this Annex.

5. For the purpose of making respective entry in the register and in compliance with the requirements prescribed by law, the persons providing tourism services shall, simultaneously with notifying on the activities conducted thereby as prescribed by the Law “On notification on the conduct of activities”, submit to the Tourism Committee, through the platform tools and in digital form (by attaching also documents only in case of impossibility of data access by interaction), additional comprehensive information relating thereto, which must contain the following data:

(1) information on the type of tourism services — information on the type of services rendered by a person providing tourism services from the list of tourism services established by law, including the names used within the scope of providing the services that are publicly known or introduced on social or other platforms, the full names of trademarks and their equivalents at least in Russian and English, the geographical destinations of offered tourism packages, tours, or other individual services, and in case of persons providing hotel services as prescribed by law — also information on the number of rooms and beds (including additional beds) available in each hotel facility operated by them;

(2) data on licence (permit) (if available) — information on permits, licences issued by the authorised bodies of foreign States for tourism services rendered by a person providing tourism services, as well as information on international certificates and compliance standards for persons providing hotel services, including the day, month, year, and the country of issuance (granting), and a reference to the Internet website of relevant authority or organisation where the authenticity of the provided information may be verified;

(3) information on the type of guarantee — in case of a tour operator rendering outbound tourism-related services, as well as outbound tour agents — under the procedure and conditions established by Article 15 of the Law, information certifying the availability of a guarantee obtained by the person providing tourism services in observance of the requirements of secondary acts adopted on the basis of the Law “On tourism”;

(4) a statement made to the effect that the person providing tourism services (the tour operator and tour agent) is informed of the rules prescribed by Annex No 3 to the Decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia No 76-N of 23 January 2025.

6. The Tourism Committee shall obtain the data, to be submitted in respect of the notifying person referred to in this Annex, from other competent state or local self-government bodies through the data exchange layer within the scope of interaction, without obtaining the additional consent of the person providing tourism services, which shall have effect throughout the entire period of conduct of activities, subject to notification, by the person providing tourism services:

(1) in case of a legal person providing tourism services or an individual entrepreneur —

a. name or name and surname of an individual entrepreneur, state registration number of a legal person or reference number of record-registration certificate of an individual entrepreneur, legal address (registered address), taxpayer identification number, economic classifier, legal and organisational form, date of state registration or record-registration, existence of liquidation, obtained from the Single State Registry of State Register of Legal Entities of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia;

b. number of employees of the person providing tourism services, employed under employment contracts concluded for an indefinite time period, apart from the executive body, obtained from the State Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia:

(2) in case of a natural person providing tourism services —

a. name, surname, address of permanent residence (accommodation) in the Republic of Armenia, day, month, and year of death, obtained from the State Register of Population of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia;

b. along with the information submitted to the Tourism Committee, the person providing tourism services shall, through the platform tools, provide, in digital form, information prescribed by part 2 of Article 15 of the Law in respect of compliance with the rules and requirements for the provision of tourism services by entities of tourism activities established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia;

(3) in case of engaging in the types of activities specified in subpoints 1-3 of point 6 of part 2 of Article 22 of the Law “On notification on the conduct of activities” — the possibility of selecting relevant address in order to confirm the place of activities of a person providing tourism services as an existing address, obtained from the Real Estate Information System of Armenia of the Cadastre Committee .

 

Chief of Staff

to the Prime Minister

of the Republic of Armenia

A. HARUTYUNYAN

 

12 February 2026

CERTIFIED BY

ELECTRONIC

SIGNATURE

 

Annex No 2

to the Decision of the Government

of the Republic of Armenia

N 136-N of 12 February 2026

THE PROCEDURE AND FORMS FOR SUBMISSION AND MAINTENANCE OF INFORMATION OF TOURISM SERVICES PROVIDERS REGISTERED IN THE ELECTRONIC REGISTRER ON PERSONS PROVIDING TOURISM SERVICES

 

1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

1. The following main concepts shall be used in this Annex:

(1) Law — Law “On tourism”;

(2) register — a database, referred to in the Law “On public information”, relating to persons providing tourism services, covered by the Law “On tourism”;

(3) person providing tourism services — persons providing tourism services prescribed by points 1-5 of part 1 of Article 10 of the Law;

(4) platform — a platform available at “notify.tourism.gov.am” Internet address, equipped with information technology tools, through which the person providing tourism services notifies on the conduct of activities.

2. This Annex shall define the legal relations pertaining to the procedure and forms for submission and maintenance of information, by a person providing tourism services, for the purpose of registration in the register.

3. The register shall be maintained by the Tourism Committee of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia (hereinafter referred to as “the Tourism Committee”) in observance of the requirements prescribed by law and this Annex.

4. The processes for record-registration of information prescribed by this Annex, including the maintenance of the register based on submitted information and the provision of information contained therein shall be exercised in digital form, except for the cases of absence of databases serving as sources of acquisition thereof, or impossibility of acquisition of the data through interaction.

5. Data from the register may be provided to other state bodies through interaction. State or local self-government bodies shall obtain access to the data of the register as prescribed by the Law “On public information”. The state bodies possessing legal ground for the access to the data of the register, however lacking any digital solution for data exchange through interaction, shall be provided with a user account in the register on the ground of role management and access control.

6. A person providing tourism services shall sign in the platform by means of identification through “Yes em” national identification platform. Foreign nationals providing tourism services in the Republic of Armenia, not entitled to be identified through “Yes em” national identification platform, may access the platform by entering their passport data used for conducting activities in the Republic of Armenia and follow the instructions of the platform.

 

2. THE PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION BY PERSONS PROVIDING TOURISM SERVICES

 

7. A person providing tourism services shall be obliged to submit the notification on the conduct of activities to the Tourism Committee through the platform tools, in observance of the operating procedure and rules of the platform, in the manner and within time limits prescribed by this Annex.

8. Each person engaged in the activities subject to notification may manage the information provided thereby through the platform account thereof.

9. The requirement of submitting a notification on the activities subject to notification in electronic form and through platform tools, shall be deemed as fulfilled, where the person fills in the required information by means of platform tools, and further the generated application is automatically confirmed through the same tools.

10. The data entered in the electronic register and subject to publication shall be confirmed and made available on the Internet.

11. The notification process shall be deemed as completed once the record-registration number of the notification is made available to the person engaged in activities subject to notification through the platform, at the time of confirming the generated application specified in point 10 of this Annex.

12. A person providing tourism services shall be obliged to submit, through the platform tools, to the Tourism Committee the information covered by points 4-5 of Annex No 1 approved by this Decision — which is being entered by the notifying person and modified after notification, except where such modifications result in a change of the person providing tourism services, or result in the suspension or termination of activities subject to notification by the person providing tourism services, and are recorded in the electronic register through the platform tools — on the third working day following the day of making relevant modification.

13. In the event of modifications of the information specified in points 4-6 of Annex No 1 approved by this Decision, which lead to a change of the person providing tourism services, the latter shall be obliged to submit a new notification in accordance with this Procedure, in the manner and within the time limits prescribed by the Law “On notification on the conduct of activities”, and the activities of the person providing tourism services, having submitted a notification prior to the modification, shall be terminated in parallel thereto.

14. A record shall be made, in the user account of the person providing tourism services who acts as the addressee of relevant modifications on the platform, with regard to the information entered by the notifying person referred to in points 4-5 of Annex No 1 approved by this Decision and modified after notification.

15. Persons providing tourism services may engage in activities subject to notification after submitting the notification through the platform tools and obtaining the record-registration number of the notification provided for in point 12 of this Annex. Moreover, prior to the entry into force of this Procedure, the activities of persons providing tourism services who have obtained state registration (record-registration) as prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia shall, except for the cases of provision of permissible tourism services by natural persons, be subject to suspension until the persons providing tourism services submit, through the platform tools, a notification on the activities conducted thereby and obtain the record-registration number of the notification provided for in point 12 of this Annex.

 

3. RULES FOR AND FORM OF MAINTAINING THE REGISTER BY THE TOURISM COMMITTEE, AND INFORMATION TO BE INCORPORATED THEREIN

 

16. The register shall contain records on a person providing tourism services as prescribed by Annex No 1 approved by this Decision, the law, and the Law “On notification on the conduct of activities”, which relate to the information submitted to the Tourism Committee and the modifications thereof.

17. The register shall be available online through a secure and user-friendly platform which is accessible in Armenian and English at “notify.tourism.gov.am” electronic address.

18. The information contained in the register must be introduced in a standardised format through the platform, enabling the users to easily compare and analyse it, with interactive features for advanced search and filtering options, having regard to the regulations specified in points 16 and 22 of this Annex.

19. The register shall enable to search and filter the information based on various criteria, taking as a basis the content of the information provided for in Annex No 1 approved by this Decision, including the state registration (record-registration) data of the person having submitted the notification, the taxpayer identification number, if available, the type of tourism service they provide under this Procedure, and the registered address of the person providing tourism services.

20. The register shall contain information on a person providing tourism services, referred to in points 4-6 of the Annex No 1 approved by this Decision.

21. The Tourism Committee may also store, in electronic form through the platform, relevant documents on the mentioned information which accompany the register, unless such information is available in digital form in any system.

22. While maintaining the register, the Tourism Committee shall enter into the register the day, month, year, and reference number of the decision on suspension, or termination, or lifted suspension of the right of a person providing tourism services to engage in activities subject to notification, as well as the day, month, and year of lifting the suspension.

23. Entries in the register shall be made by the Tourism Committee in observance of the requirements prescribed by this Annex.

24. The guarantees prescribed by law for ensuring data security and confidentiality shall be preserved in the process of maintaining the register, by ensuring the protection of information submitted by persons providing tourism services and consumers. If necessary, the Tourism Committee, or the person in charge of technical maintenance of the register, shall carry out data exchange encryption, access control, and regular security audits in order to safeguard the data against unauthorised access, violations, or misuse.

25. The platform shall include a subsection for user feedback and technical support, which enables consumers and persons providing tourism services to report on any shortcomings identified in the register.

26. Based on international treaties ratified by the Republic of Armenia, the right to engage in activities subject to notification may also be acquired by a person providing tourism services who is not a resident of the Republic of Armenia, provided that they meet the requirements to relevant activities subject to notification. In this case, the information specified in points 4-6 of Annex No 1 approved by this Decision, shall be submitted by entering it through the platform.

 

Chief of Staff

to the Prime Minister

of the Republic of Armenia

A. HARUTYUNYAN

 

12 February 2026

CERTIFIED BY

ELECTRONIC

SIGNATURE

 

Date of the official promulgation: 12 February 2026.

 

Translation published on a joint site 26 June 2026.