 Association
of hotels and restaurants was established in
April, 1967, and its original name was "Ugoturist",
but 1968 it changed its name to "Ugoprogres"
and operated under that name by the mid of
2002.
Since May 2002, the Association has been
operating as the Business Asssociation of
Hotels and Restaurants - "HORES".
The "HORES" - as
the representative association - takes part
in preparation and conclusion of the Special
Collective Agreement for the catering and
tourism activities, with the rerpresentative
trade unions, and keeps tracks of its
performance and effect on the operation.
At the
begining of 2003, the Association joined the
Employers Union, as a collective member,
whereby it became the authorized
representative in the operation of the
Social - Economic Committee of the Serbian
Government.
At the
begining of 2004, the Cooperation Agreement
between the Association of Industrialists
and Entrepreneurs of Serbia and Montenegro.
The Association has 200 members, opposed to
original 15. It has more than 180 hotels,
motels and other facilities in its
structure, which is more than 85% of the
total accommodation facilities and more than
2000 catering facilities.
Important
suppliers of the catering and tourist
industry are the part of the Association, as
well as the number of catering companiies
from Montenegro.
The Agreement
on the Mutual Associate Membership to the
Associaton of the Tour Operators (YUTA) and
Business Association of the Catering
Industry "HORES" as of 2002. All the members
of the Association of the Tour Operators
(about 350) of the "YUTA" are associate
members of our Association and vice versa,
which gives even more importance and new
quality to these associations, for the
purpose of accomplishment of the interests
of the industry.
The
Asssociation of Private Catering Businesses
of Belgrade has more than 300 members, and
is the part of the "HORES".
The main
activity of the Association is:
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Monitoring ana rewieving the
economic situation and ongoing problems
of the catering and tourist industry,
and taking initiatives with the
competent government bodies and
institutions,
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Proposing the measures for
improvement of the businiess activity
conditions and more adequate treatment
of this industry in the economic system,
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Informing the businesses of the
industry of the proposed measures,
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Informing and providing technical
support to the businesses of the
industry and interpretation of
regulations of importance for this
industry, mainly from privatization,
tax, foreign-exchange, foreign trade and
credit sector,
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Monitoring of the state-of-the-art
trends of the catering and tourist
industry, through the exchange of
technical staff, their education, and
cooperation with simalar institutions of
the developed toursit countries,
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Joining this industry with
technical, scientific and educational
institutions for the purpose of
improvement of knowledge, training and
education of the staff, for the purpose
of implementation of the techincal and
scientific work results, and incresing
the technical knowledge of the staff of
the industry,
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Imporvement of standards and
legislations in accordance with the
regulations on categorization, for the
purpose of improvement of the quality
level of the catering and tourist
services,
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Joining the catering and tourism,
with the activities complementary to
this industry,
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Organizing the mutual presentations
at the local and foreign tourst fairs.
The above
said activities of the Association are
accomplished through the association body -
Assembley, Board of Directors, operational
bodies and Technical Department.
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