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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 330
TO
: Secretary of Tourism
Municipal and City Officials
Pursuant to the provisions of Presidential Decrees Nos. 189 and 381, and in order to protect legitimate investments in the tourist accommodation industry, particularly in hotels, pension houses, inn, etc., in response to the call of the government for the development of facilities for tourists, from the erosive effects of indirect and unauthorized competition coming from the operation of condominium buildings, condominium apartments, and other buildings and structures which were ostensibly established for office or residential purposes, but diverted, or still to be diverted, to the tourist accommodation industry, the Secretary of Tourism and all Municipal and City officials are hereby directed to see to it that the following rules and regulations are followed:
1.
No person or entity shall construct a condominium
building which is intended for tourist accommodation by design, by
express provision, or by absence of any prohibition against such use in
its Articles of Incorporation or Contracts to Sell, without prior
authority of the Philippine Tourism Authority pursuant to Presidential
Decree No. 381.
2. No owner,
developer, operator, lessee, sub-lessee,
or administrator of the above-described buildings or structures shall
lease or rent out the same to any foreign tourist or visitor unless he
shall have secured the requisite license from the Department of
Tourism, and for periods of not less than 30 days.
3. Owners,
developers, operators, lessees,
sub-lessees, or administrators of the above-said buildings and
structures shall not be entitled to register under Presidential Decree
No. 535 for the availment of incentives: PROVIDED, That in areas where
shortage of tourist accommodations exists as determined by the
Authority, this limitation shall not apply to said persons who want to
convert said buildings and structures for tourism purposes.
4. The records
of operation of the above-said
buildings or units, once used for tourist accommodations, shall always
be made available for inspection by the Philippine Tourism Authority or
the Department of Tourism to insure compliance with their rules and
regulations.
Any person violating or causing another to violate the above shall suffer the penalties provided for in Presidential Decree No. 189, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 259.
Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
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