H.H. Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ajman, has issued Regulation No. (2) of 2025 establishing the “Ajman Division of Tourism, Tradition and Media” and appointing Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Humaid Al Nuaimi as its Chairman.
Below the brand new legislation, the division will change each the Ajman Division of Tourism Improvement and the Ajman Tradition and Media Division, assuming all their rights and obligations. The monetary allocations included within the 2025 authorities price range for the 2 former departments will probably be transferred to the brand new entity.
The legislation additionally stipulates that each one workers of the previous departments will probably be transferred to the newly created division with their present monetary entitlements preserved, with out prejudice to their acquired rights.
As well as, H.H. the Ruler of Ajman issued Emiri Decree No. (15) of 2025 appointing Mahmood Alhashmi as Director-Normal of the division.
The brand new division goals to develop an built-in legislative framework that regulates tourism, cultural, and media actions, retains tempo with world tendencies, and ensures compliance with skilled and moral requirements. It’s going to additionally work to boost Ajman’s standing in these sectors in step with the emirate’s strategic and developmental imaginative and prescient.
Key goals embrace constructing a aggressive and progressive ecosystem to broaden providers and merchandise, highlighting Ajman’s tourism, heritage, and historic landmarks, and strengthening the emirate’s presence on the cultural and media map domestically, regionally, and internationally.
The division additionally seeks to place Ajman as a world hub for tourism, tradition, and media by growing nationwide expertise, making ready them for management roles in these important sectors, and offering the infrastructure crucial to draw investments, enhance GDP, and promote cultural alternate, understanding, and coexistence.
Based on the legislation, the division’s headquarters will probably be within the metropolis of Ajman, with the potential for establishing further branches or workplaces inside or exterior the emirate upon the approval of the Chairman of the Government Council.
Its areas of duty embrace tourism growth via policymaking, occasion administration, licensing, facility classification, promotion of the emirate, and attracting tourism funding.
It’s going to additionally oversee cultural and creative growth, heritage preservation, administration of museums and historic websites, help for artistic skills, and safeguarding of cultural id.
Within the media sector, the division will regulate media exercise, situation licences, oversee content material, help media funding, and contribute to coverage growth. Normal obligations embrace drafting related laws, constructing partnerships, encouraging funding, and signing agreements aligned with its mandate.
The legislation additionally abolishes all earlier laws associated to the institution and regulation of the previous Ajman Division of Tourism Improvement and the Ajman Tradition and Media Division, whereas affirming that present laws will stay in drive till different provisions according to the brand new legislation are issued.
The legislation will take impact 90 days after its issuance and shall be revealed within the emirate’s Official Gazette.
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