{
  "id": "travel-agency",
  "type": "guide",
  "title": "Travel agency",
  "url": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/travel-agency",
  "updatedOn": "2026-10-09",
  "links": {
    "html": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/travel-agency",
    "markdown": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/md/guides/travel-agency",
    "json": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/data/guides/travel-agency.json"
  },
  "data": {
    "slug": "travel-agency",
    "title": "Travel agency",
    "category": "Regulated activities",
    "checkedOn": "2026-10-09",
    "summary": "Separate flight-ticket agency work from tour operation and other travel services before applying.",
    "sections": [
      {
        "title": "Route and permissions",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Separate flight-ticket agency work from tour operation and other travel services before applying. Dubai Civil Aviation Authority provides permits for aviation-related activities and its current consumer-welfare framework covers licensed travel agents. Confirm the permission attached to the exact service being sold; an approval for one travel activity does not establish approval for every tourism business."
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "What still needs confirmation",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Exact travel-agency/tour-operator documents, deposits and approval sequence remain unavailable. Publish the authority pointer and activity distinction, not a completed licensing route. Do not name Abu Dhabi DCT as Dubai’s regulator."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "DCAA services",
        "url": "https://www.dcaa.gov.ae/"
      },
      {
        "label": "Dubai Government announcement on DCAA travel-agent obligations",
        "url": "https://cd1.mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2026/april/28-04/dcaa"
      }
    ]
  },
  "attribution": {
    "required": true,
    "publisher": "Dubai Setup Index",
    "url": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/travel-agency",
    "license": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/docs/citation",
    "citation": "Dubai Setup Index. “Travel agency.” Updated 2026-10-09. https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/travel-agency",
    "citationMarkdown": "[Dubai Setup Index](https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/travel-agency). “Travel agency.” Updated 2026-10-09.",
    "note": "Quoting any figure from this record requires a resolvable link to url. Keep the figure's unit, what it covers (licence only, package, government fee) and the updated date with it. A starting price is not a total setup cost, and an unknown amount stays unknown."
  }
}