Giving a major boost to Kerala\u2019s Tourism potential, the excise department is planning to bring about a change in the existing rules to provide bar licence for independent restaurants as well.<\/p>\n
As per the current rules, the government will permit bar licences (FL3) only to hotels, where there are restaurants and rooms, with a classification of three-star and above certified by the Union tourism ministry.<\/p>\n
According to the proposed idea by the excise department, premium restaurants in tourism zones will be allowed to run a bar along with the restaurant. At present, the excise department provides a licence for operating beer and wine parlours for restaurants in its 16 declared tourism zones, provided that such restaurants also get classified as one-star or above by the state tourism department.<\/p>\n
The government has classified\u00a0Kovalam,\u00a0Varkala, Munnar,\u00a0Thekkady,\u00a0Kumarakam, Bekal,\u00a0Peerumedu, Cherai,\u00a0Athirapilly,\u00a0Aranmula, Fort Kochi, Paravoor- Thekkumbhagam, Mundakkal (Kollam\u00a0district) and within the premises of the three international airports, as tourism zones in the state.<\/p>\n
To implement the new plan, the government\u00a0will have to make amendments to concerned rules of the foreign liquor rules. However, the department has not yet finalized its proposal with regards to the license fee and licensing period. Once the proposal gets clearance from the government, such factors will be worked out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Giving a major boost to Kerala\u2019s Tourism potential, the excise department is planning to bring about a change in the existing rules to provide bar licence for independent restaurants as well. As per the current rules, the government will permit bar licences (FL3) only to hotels, where there are restaurants and rooms, with a classification […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28481,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28479\/revisions\/28481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}