According to Mongolian laws, tourist organizations in Mongolia are categorized into 2 groups: travel agencies and tour operators. Tour operator plans tour products, promotes and organizes the products and covers travel agency activities. Travel agency retails tour operator tour products and specialized in ticketing, hotel booking, event booking etc. There is no obligatory special permission to be obtained by tour operators or travel agencies, but the Ministry issues special permits according to the company’s experience, number of tourists, number of professional staffs and stable works.
Inbound tour operator special permission has ITO code while outbound tour operator’s is OTO, DTO indicates that the tour operator is for domestic tourists and INT indicated international tour organizing tour operator.
Travel agency has no classification at the moment.
Today, 452 tour operator operators of 33 different country investments are operating in Mongolia.
Inbound tour operators in Mongolia are excluded from VAT by the law.
Today, 452 tour operator operators of 33 different country investments are operating in Mongolia.
Inbound tour operators in Mongolia are excluded from VAT by the law.
