This Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is a result of joint efforts between REPOA and the Hotel Association of Tanzania (HAT). The RIA quantifies the cost that tourism business operators, in particularly the accommodation businesses, incur when complying with the existing employment regulatory regime. The RIA primarily responds to the following questions: How much compliance costs do the employment regulatory regime impose on the tourism-related accommodation businesses in Tanzania?
There are two important value additions from this study, First, the study attempts to fill an important gap in the literature, that is, absence of hotel industry level data on the costs of meeting different regulatory regimes. Such data will enrich the ongoing policy debates on business environment with quantitative information away from anecdotal data that has over the years characterise such dialogues. Quantitative data relative to qualitative and subjective data are more likely to draw the attention of stakeholders which in turn advances the likelihood of reaching consensus on areas to be reformed. This study therefore adds to the other literature such as Jensen (2008) and Shekidele (1999) that have quantified compliance costs in non-hotel related industries.
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