The award of the 2022 FIFA World Cup has given a greater impetus to infrastructure development and has served to create a timeline for delivery. The numbers are staggering (particularly given the size and current population of Qatar): USD $35 billion for a new rail project, USD $20 billion for upgrading the road network, USD $11 billion on further upgrades to the Doha International Airport, USD $5 billion on a new deepwater sea port, new and refurbished sports stadia and 170 hotels comprising over 70,000 hotel rooms.

Of particular relevance to the operators of those new hotels, the hotel industry in general and other tourism sectors in Qatar is Law number 6 for the year 2012 (”Tourism Licensing Law”), which was put into place to regulate business activities in the tourism industry in Qatar to which the Tourism Licensing Law applies. Those business activities fall under two main categories as follows: