While there will be crisis investment and tourism will lag behind
RELIANCE ON PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION, IT SUCCESS SUMMER SEASON, SAY THEY ARE GREAT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND ARE ASKED TO STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES WERE UNREALISTIC.
From the aspect of the crisis, it is normally run every possible campaign that will contribute to increasing the number of tourists and more revenue, even if it meant advertise private accommodation. Indeed it is logical and is not used for potcjenjivanje capacity of private accommodation, if estimated in this section has around 300,000 beds. We hope that the campaign will succeed because of the season with good success partly depends on the overall state of the economy.
Now, however, and everyone clearly the announcement of Montenegro as a high quality, exclusive and elite tourist destination, there is nothing, at least not in the near future. Some officials are now talking to so something could be achieved by 2020. year, even though the same officials several years ago in the same context, mention 2012th year.
Devastating is the fact that 87 percent of accommodation in Montenegro in the private sector, and only 13 percent of the hotel. For example, in competing destinations, Greece, Spain, Cyprus … dominates the hotel accommodation. In Croatia and Slovenia is not the case, but again much more favorable than in Montenegro in favor of hotel accommodation.
In addition to numerous other “minor” problems, the capital of Montenegrin tourism, which mostly predodre?uje level of quality of a destination, is the lack of hotels.
According to available data, in Montenegro currently has 300 hotels with approximately 45,000 beds. Of these, only three five star hotels with a total of fewer than a thousand beds – Villa Montenegro and Forca Mare, as well as small hotels, and Splendid. In the category of four stars, there is something more than twenty hotels, with a total of several thousand beds. In that group were Mistral, Ibero-old Belva, Bianca, Queen of Montenegro, Avala, Mediterranean …
The rest of the over 40,000 beds belong to the category of one to three stars.
Definitely the hotel industry in Montenegro is not nearly developed. Of course, that may be required and objective reasons, though, to free estimates, missed a great chance in the last few years, lasted until the economic boom, when the announcement was the construction of dozens of hotels and tourist complexes of high quality
There is now come to one of the biggest problems in the Montenegrin economy in general and to the lack of serious investors and investments. Investments are required each state to generate revenue on various grounds, to be opened new jobs, increased trade in goods and services, strengthen the financial system, increase spending, and attracted other new investment … Simply, investment affect economic growth, which leads to extreme to increase the standards of the population. Investments in time of crisis are considered as one of the most effective tools to mitigate the consequences. Investments in tourism are particularly grateful, because, despite all these benefits, significant because of the attraction of a larger number of guests in the country, which in turn has economic impact.
The effect of foreign investment, and maker it was through the sale of property, could be felt several years ago in Montenegro when the money was on all sides.
To began construction of tourist facilities during the boom, the fact is that many of them would not be completed until today, but some certainly were completed or the completion of their recently been a certain period. As one expert said the situation in this area – we would have at least something more than what we have now. ” This is a splendid and forth only serious greater direct investment in tourism, with a great chance to stay in the coming years.
I remember the announcement of construction Sheraton, Kempinskog, For sizonsa and other hotel brands, and skyscrapers with the marina, villas, golf … I remember the investors who bought or mjerkali various locations, such as Long Beach, Sko?i?evojke, Slovenska plaza, former military barracks and resorts …
None of these announcements, not only has not been achieved, but not started. In this, of course, on account of the construction of villas Zavala, a kind of investment Peter Munk in Tivat, signing contracts for Lustica which should start in perspective …
What’s the problem? Speaking of tourism, that is definitely among the investors in Montenegro announced big jobs, and those were neozbiljnih that they had no real capacity for some serious ventures. On the other hand, there were serious ones that were ready to build. Among them were those who had previously invested huge money in buying land in the purchase of older hotels, the preparation of projects, but somehow it all dashed.
The fact is that the crisis took toll, but the economic boom in the world took years before the crisis came, and the period which Montenegro was not used to attract and natjera foreigners to invest.
The attractiveness of Montenegro as an investment destination is certainly there, and there, although in this section has shortcomings. Foreign investors to put money into a country primarily motivated by the chance for profits, favorable tax politilka, stable political and security situation. In Montenegro, these conditions at a satisfactory level, and especially was the case 2007th and 2008. which are considered years of economic prosperity.
What is, however, a good part influenced investors to go or not to start with investments, is the bureaucracy. When it comes to potential investments in tourism, numerous cases of lack of spatial planning documents and studies on the sites that waiting. These documents are only prerequisite to enter the procedure of issuing building permits for hotels, which are then waiting months or years. There are cases where there was and is planning documents, but disappointed investors by planners as the paved, according to investors, economically unsustainable project. There are cases where, after years of waiting, now everything should be, but a crisis and no money to continue projects.
Do not talk about infrastructure problems – electricity, water, access roads … in which each investor had to invest, although it is considered work for the government or municipality.
In addition, unresolved property-legal relations is increasingly leading to a variety of protest and revolt locals or former owners of lots (Great beaches, Lustica, Montepranco …), which is why many investors withdraw from its intention. And solving these problems in the job description of the state.
Government and local governments actually have to, among other things, create environment for attracting investors. Chance that the team meant that it is enough to accommodate an investment group or delegation, the royal family … and offer them the location, and the rest will come by itself. Chance that we poljuljale certain statements that Montenegro will be the new Monaco, we haven investment, or the occasional arrival figures from the world jet-set, we thought that investors waiting to invest billions in Montenegro.
By all accounts, while our dreams do not become a reality, Montenegro will continue to wear the epithet of mass tourism destinations, which need not be bad, but the epithet destination where the extremely long and difficult path from the beginning of the planning and realization of investments, which is certainly wrong because the crisis and falling behind in tourism will be higher.
And at this point, regardless of any difficulties and obstructions, there is serious interest of foreign investors to invest their money in Montenegro, but first someone has to tell them and then prove that they are welcome.
Oh, the bureaucracy
Everything indicates that the largest part of the guilt borne by the state, as the Government, its ministries and local government. For the umpteenth time must be mentioned – the bureaucracy. Business barriers such as lack of planning documents or the existence of plans that provide economically untenable projects or projects that do not meet the requirements of serious investors, problems with issuing building permits, outstanding property-legal relations, as well as different types of obstruction at various levels, are the main problems that investors face in Montenegro. These are some of the main reasons why during the economic boom was started almost no serious investment, even if the announcements were dozens.
