– We expect the season to be extremely good, even in part and better than last year, as our pre-season announcements are truly very good and that trend continues to the very peak season and the sub-season. We hope that all these announcements will be realized and we think we can hope for another great season, we are very optimistic – he said in a conversation for the Fen, the director of the hotel “Sun” Davor Krešić.
According to the announcements of the hoteliere, part of smaller hotels are opened on 15. March, and until 15. April All Neum hotels should “be in operation.”
Prices of accommodation in Neum hotels compared to last year remained the same or experienced a slight increase of three to five percent.
– no one excessively raised prices, although it is a lot of ungrateful story for us the reasons we signed contracts with large European tourist operators last year at this time, and in terms of inflation, and a half The issue of labor, and increasing the costs of all inputs, such as food, electricity and the like. We have already formed prices for next year, and we just can’t know what will happen in the next 12 months – Krešić emphasized.
Foreign guests
More than 85 percent of guests in Neum hotels are foreign guests. They mostly come from Germany, Slovenia, Poland, countries of Benelux and from Scandinavian countries.
Guests from the Far East began to slowly began in Neum, but their number of overnight stays did not reach the prependemic year.
– We expect us every year that it will return, but it goes a lot slowly. I must say that this winter was not enough of those guests from far asian markets, so I’m afraid we will have to wait a year to return those numbers we had 2018. and 2019. Years. There are those guests, the fact is, but it is far from those numbers before Korona. However, we have compensated these figures to standard Western European emit markets, so it can be said that we “compensated” the loss of those guests – Krešić points out.
Due to the increase in the price on the Adriatic, especially in neighboring countries, Neum has further become an interesting foreign tourists in recent years, which only bh. The city of the sea is taken for their base from where they visit other tourist destinations in the orkure.
– Neum has an extremely good geographical position. In our environment there are Dubrovnik, Korcula, Mostar, Medjugorje, the cave of windmills and numerous other attractive destinations. Neum has excellent accommodation facilities and excellent hotels, and due to lower accommodation prices have become interesting guests, especially in the face and post-season. In the very spit of the season, the motive of arrival is, of course, summer tourism – Krešić said.
Workforce problem
When talking about tourism in the inevitable topic in recent years is certainly a lack of labor.
– That’s the problem we encounter each year. He is handling each way as he knows how to melt. Someone manages to find workers in the domestic market, someone employs workers from Nepal, Philippines, India, someone from the surrounding countries such as Serbia and Macedonia. Called experiences from the years, we started looking for workers at the end of last tourist season so we can say that hotels are quite well “crushed” because we took this problem seriously – Krešić explained.
In neighboring Montenegro and Croatia, there are ameven more foreign workers from distant countries, while their number is still low in Neum.
– Maybe there will be 30-40 workers from those far countries in the Neum, which is very little given the total number of workers who are employed. The “spine” of the workforce consists of older workers, as these people do you a great deal and I always say that they are quite better than these young forces to come. We will meet with this problem through a year or two days when these people go to retirement and we must now begin to think about it. I am of the opinion that the state needs something to be done, because for the work permit to take out and get a visa for these workers is such a torture job to give a lot of hotel history simply giving up – Krešić warned.
He also commented on the decision of the FBiH Government on raising the minimum wage, pointing out that the decision did not affect the Neum hotels.
– With us at the Hotel “Sunce”, that decision did not literally affect the reason for us with salary with a lower than 1,400 – 1,500 marks – concluded the director of the sale of the hotel “Sun” Davor Krešić.
(Vijesti.ba/fena)
