The article discusses legal aspects associated with the depositing by guests of their belongings and valuables for safe keeping in hotel and catering establishments. Contracts and legal liability on the part of hotel and restaurant owners, and specific laws that exist to enforce these and protect...

The international hotel industry has undergone major changes over the past 20 years which have caused changes in hotel marketing operations. The growth in hotel capacities, linked with increased competition, has resulted in the search for new markets, identity and product consistency. The article...

Croatian hotel companies are at a turning point in their development. After the formal privatization of firms is complete, their transformation to efficient and competitive economic subjects should be performed. The article tries to explain the importance of the concept of business planning in ...

Existing information systems used by the Croatian hotel industry, especially those segments dealing with accounting, will inevitably undergo numerous changes because of the new general accounting system being set up nationwide and because of the restructuring process. Market orientation requires a...

A new type of contract for hotel services, known as agency contracts for hotel services, has recently been established in Yugoslavia. It includes every contract by which a hotel operator undertakes an obligation towards the agency to provide for the guest (the agency's client) accommodation and...

Different pricing policies diversely affect enterprise profitability. Today, when the demand for tourism and catering services in Croatia has drastically decreased, the setting of the 'right' price (for each service being offered) has for most business enterprises in the tourism and catering...

Non-existence of floristical potential evidence, as well as permanent devastation of the existing green areas on the territory of Budva municipality in Yugoslavia, untested and unplanned projects bring in the necessity of determining floristical material, especially egzots (exotic species)....

Quantitative methods and models have found wide application in economic analysis of the structure and dynamics of a range of economic phenomena. The article considers the application of growth matrix in the comparative analysis of business efficiency of several hotels. The data analyzed refer to...

A simple quantitative methodological approach is developed for an analysis of tourist expenditure in the Opatija region of Yugoslavia. Specifically, it involves an analysis of data obtained from hotel operations, where the amount spent by a hotel guest for board and lodging per day on an annual...

This paper, which examines the spatial distribution of campsites in Croatia, finds that most are concentrated around the coast, in particular, along the western coast, Istria, although similar clusters can be found around Zadar and Sibenik and on the Makarska riviera. It is found that occupancy...