According to records published by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, there are 453 hotels in Montenegro with 43.639 beds. Nearly 55% accounts for four-star and five-star hotels. This year, 38 high-end hotels have been opened, and there will be even more.
As representatives of the Ministry said, categorization procedure helps achieve one of Government’s goals – creating conditions for the improvement and raising quality level of catering capacities.
One of key measures defined by the Reforms in the Area of Tourism Agenda is the development of new and improvement of the existing accommodation facilities. The most important activity in that context is defining models for the enhancement of the construction of four and five-star hotels.
“There are currently 25 five-star hotels in Montenegro. 179 four-star hotels, whereas other hotels refer to one to three stars”, said the representatives of the Ministry.
Analysis of the current state of affairs of hotel structure takes into consideration the fact that the Strategy adopted at the end of 2008, when many-year long economic crisis started, has seriously affected the investment projects in Montenegro.
“However, despite such ambiance, we are very satisfied with the structure of our hotels now, as the number of high-end hotels exceeds the projections envisaged by the Strategy”, said the representatives of the Ministry.
Raising the offer quality in hotels and other catering facilities achieves strategic goal of development tourism in Montenegro- high quality, all -year long tourist offer.
“In that context, Government is focused on creating conditions for enhancing development of catering services, as the most important segment of tourist product”, said the representatives of the Ministry.
With the aim of raising competitiveness level and creating conditions for the extension of the season, Ministry has been implementing project of the establishment, improvement and control of quality level of hotel facilities as well as other accommodation facilities.
Commission of the Ministry of Tourism is in charge of the categorization of catering facilities.
“Commission for categorization of catering facilities conducts the categorization procedure and assigns the category depending on the organization, equipment and maintenance of the facility, type and quality of services and other categorization criteria”, explained the representatives of the Ministry.
