Tourist Enterprise Licence (TEL) categories are letters. Match the work to the letter before you fill a form.

  • A — Hotels, motels, guesthouses, B&Bs, self-catering, backpackers, cultural villages, campsites outside protected areas
  • B — Lodges, photographic/hunting camps, campsites inside protected or WMA areas
  • C — Mobile safari operators inside protected areas
  • D — Travel agencies and tour planning (excluding air/ocean ticketing)
  • E — Tourist road transfers outside protected areas
  • F — Motorboat tourism
  • G — Other activities (cycling, ballooning, bungee, etc.)
  • H — Mokoro
  • I — Foreign-based operators with limited activity in Botswana
  • J — Houseboats
  • K — Semi-permanent mobile tented camps (up to three months)
  • L — Travel agencies with air or ocean ticketing

Wrong category means the application stalls while you rework the stack. Dimension the activity first — then the company, then the licence. See special licence companies.