| (1) | The Minister may develop a national grading system for tourism with a view to maintaining or enhancing the standards and quality of tourism services, facilities and products. |
(2) The grading system must promote—
| (c) | excellence in the provision of tourism services, facilities and products. |
(3)
| (a) | The grading system contemplated in subsection (1) must provide for the establishment of one or more schemes in terms of which tourism services, facilities and products are graded or classified. |
| (i) | apply any basis of differentiation in respect of tourism services, facilities and products; |
| (ii) | classify tourism services, facilities and products into different classes on the ground of, amongst others, their nature, extent, variety, availability and quality; |
| (iii) | make provision for the acquisition, continuation and termination of membership of the scheme; and |
| (iv) | make provision for the use and display of the prescribed insignia, which may include a depiction of a star or number of stars indicating the grading awarded in terms of the scheme. |
