Hotels and Tourist Accommodation Act,
Chapter 285, Revised Edition 2003
 

THE BRIEFING
 
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
 
“Accommodation� means lodging or sleeping accommodation and any services and facilities ancillary thereto provided in any hotel or tourist accommodation for the guests thereof;
 
“Guestâ€? means any individual, who stays in a hotel or tourist accommodation  facility, whether foreigner or Belizean;
 
“Hotel� means any building containing:
a) not less than 10 bedrooms for the accommodation for reward of guests.
 
b) a group of units containing not less than 10 units, and such units may consist of buildings, cottages, cabanas, apartments or otherwise for the accommodation of guests for reward, situated within the same complex or precincts.
 
“Tourist Accommodation� means:
a) Any establishment, other than a hotel, consisting of one or more units, whether buildings, cottages, cabanas, cabins, bungalows, apartments, or otherwise, for the accommodation of guests for reward, situated within the same complex or precincts.
 
b) Includes, without derogating from paragraph (a) above, apartments, condominiums, guest houses, beach houses, time-share units, cruise ships, live-aboard vessels, camp-sites, religious, education and research facilities, community-based tourist establishments, and any other type or category of accommodation used by guests.