The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 55101.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
55101 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for the activity named above: a sub-class of class 5510, short term accommodation activities, within division 55, accommodation. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 55Group 551Class 5510Sub-class 55101
Hotels and Motels, inns, resorts providing short term lodging facilities; includes accommodation in house boats
Sub-class 55101 · Class 5510 · Group 551 · Division 55 · Section I, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
551015 digits: 55 + 1 + 0 + 1NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 55101. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 55 covers accommodation. It sits in section I, accommodation and food service activities.
Short term accommodation activities.
Short term accommodation activities. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Hotels and Motels, inns, resorts providing short term lodging facilities; includes accommodation in house boats. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
55101 is a sub-class of class 5510, short term accommodation activities. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - provision of homes and furnished or unfurnished flats or apartments for more permanent use, typically on a monthly or annual basis, see division
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 55101 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 55101.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
55101 is for the activity named at the top of this page. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 5510. Each has its own page with the official wording.
55102Class 5510 · another sub-class of the same class55109Class 5510 · another sub-class of the same classClass 5510 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 55101.
Questions
Hotels and Motels, inns, resorts providing short term lodging facilities; includes accommodation in house boats, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 5510, short term accommodation activities.
Class 5510, short term accommodation activities, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 55101, they are: 55102 (Provision of short term lodging facilities to members of a particular organisition such as govt. guest houses, company guest houses, circuit houses and similar establishments); 55109 (Provision of short stay accommodation n.e.c. (e.g. holiday homes, private guest houses etc.)).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 5510, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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