The application form shall be completed in print along with the signature of the land owner or of the authorized signatory, as well as the documents mentioned overleaf, including:

• A copy of the owner's passports of the land, the owner of the license and national identity card.
• A new research certificate (valid for no more than three months)
• A copy of the plot map.
• Complete drawings of 1: 100, a copy of the drawings on a CD. These shall be new as a date shall be set on the same day of the delivery of the transaction.
• Feasibility study of the project.
• A letter of pledge from a consultative office undertaking that the enclosed drawings comply with the classification conditions and criteria issued on 26/5/2008.
• A letter of approval from an approved and licensed hotel management company to run the hotel establishment.
• A no objection certificate from the owner of the building if it was leased.
• If the application was to convert an inhabited building, there shall be enclosed with the transaction a list of the names of tenants indicating dates of leasing contracts( beginning and end of the lease contract for each tenant), approved by the owner.
• In case of investing the land, a no objection letter from the owner may be attached indicating his approval of the investment of the same as a hotel establishment. The following documents required from the investor shall be enclosed therewith:
• A valid passport copy
• Civil register summary
• An investment contract between the landlord and the licensee.( if the investor was a company, the articles of association thereof , attested by the Notary Public, shall be enclosed)

For more information please send your inquiries to the e-mail: Ask-licensing@adta.ae