Another well-known world hotel brand – Crowne Plaza – is coming to Montenegro, and today in Kolašin the Magnum Development company signed a contract with the prestigious hotel operator InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) for the construction of the Crowne Plaza Kolašin hotel.
According to Živorad Vasić, Director of Development for the Balkans at IHG, they are pleased that this hotel group is expanding its presence in Montenegro.
IHG has around one million rooms, and with Kolašin there will be 1,105,000 of them. As a group we have 18 brands, in Montenegro we have just started Iberostar, and these are the hotels Regent Porto Montenegro, Voco Podgorica, Intercontinental in Čanj, Holiday Inn is coming soon, and now this beautiful hotel under the Crowne Plaza brand.
Now I will reveal to you that in the next two years we plan to present four more hotels in Montenegro. This Government has done an excellent job when it comes to supporting investments and I would like to thank them for making us feel at home here – said Vasić.
Prime Minister Dritan Abazović said that the most important thing for future development in tourism is to have global brands and to be part of the overall global map of tourism.
That the market and guests, I hope very satisfied with their visit to Montenegro, recognize us very easily. People are now looking for unique places, clean air and clean rivers, they don’t want big crowds and they want luxury completely compatible with nature, and I think that at this moment you couldn’t have chosen a better place to open Crowne Plaza than Kolašin – he said.
According to him, the development of the north is extremely important for the Government of Montenegro. I personally think that there is more potential in the north than in the south. And I expect that in the future the development of tourism will go more towards the north than towards the south because people are looking for peace, clean nature and unique places.
The fact that your project is connected with health tourism is only more valuable because tourists change their habits and want to use their vacation to improve their health – said Prime Minister Abazović.
He said that all investors, especially credible ones from the West, are more than welcome in Montenegro, and he promised the signatories of today’s contract that he would do everything to ease the administrative procedures so that the hotel would be completed on time.
We are a country destined for tourism and almost dependent on it. This means that it is the duty of every citizen to do everything in his power to make every foreigner feel at home. I hope that our citizens and institutions will not lack hospitality, that we will make decisions faster, that we will not create any problems with any administrative obstacles and that in 2024 we will witness the opening of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Kolašin – said Abazović.
