Agency for Deposit Insurance of Serbia (AOD) announced for the second time tender for the sale of hotel Investbanka at Kopaonik, at the initial price of six million Euros. It is alleged, this hotel with four stars in Staro Rudiste, part of the property in liquidation Investbanka , with a surface area of 2.239 square meters and sales along with the entire inventory and the right use 18 are ground.

           The hotel is located about 500 meters from the center of a tourist complex on Kopaonik, near ski lifts and in 33 suites has 140 beds. On the first failed tender, closed the 26th September this year, initial price for hotel Investvanka was 594 million dinars (about 7.7 million Euros).

 

Source: AOD

           In the call, for interested buyers, it is stated that the retransmission initial tender prices for property, "Genex" on Kopaonik will be 23 million Euros. On the first tender, published in December last year, initial price was 45 million Euros, but has not received any binding bids.
           On sale are offered hotels "Grand" and "Sunčani vrhovi" (Apartments "Konaci"), as well as 102 apartments and a restaurant "Zvrk", the Agency for Privatization announced.
           Condition for participation in a tender is to deliver the guarantees of six million Euros, and evidence that the interested buyer operates in the international market and has a trademark (brandy) in the resort hotel and that has at least 10 hotels with four stars. The deadline to send the offer to purchase the assets of a "Geneks was 22 October.

 

Source:  Agency for Privatization

          Public company "Skijalista Srbije" announce that in the preparation of the coming winter season invested around 600 million dinars.
          Acting General-Director of that company Nebojsa Skoric told Beta that the works underway for artificial snow at Kopaonik, should be finished in November this year. "In the first phase of the snowing paths Pančićev top and both tracks Karaman greben. The value of the equipment and work on the construction and assembly is around 2.1 million Euros, said Skoric, adding that the location Gobelja on Kopaonik bought new four seat lift.
          Skoric said that in the course of 2008 the antierosion perform works and works on the arrangement of ski trails on all the mountains. Speaking about the lift capacity of the four ski center - Kopaonik, Zlatibor, Stara planina and Divčibare, he said that now amounts is 35,000 skiers per hour, and that with the construction of new lifts and elevators, capacity will be increased for an additional two to three thousands of skiers per hour.
          "Expansion of capacity lifts and ski lifts will take place gradually - Stara planina as part of plans Developer Jabučkog plain, and on the Kopaonik mountain in other centers to gradually replace obsolete installation with new installations of greater capacity," explained Skoric.

 

Source: Beta

          Public company „Skijališta Srbije“ continues to work on the systematic arrangement and preparations for the coming ski season. The ski centers in the course of the performance anti erosion works that will run every year in the ordinary course investment maintenance of ski resorts. These works are executed in order to reorganize existing damages at the ski trails and a prevention of creating new damage that may arise because of effects due to natural factors.
          The work intensify in the ski center of the old mountain trails Konjarnik 1 and Suncana dolina, and similar work is performed on the Crni vrh at the Divčibari. Anti erosion protection is being performed at the ski center Kopaonik as well as in ski center "Tornik" on Zlatibor.

 

Source: JP "Skijalista Srbije"

          Serbia will this year, according to NBS indicators, have gainful tourism earnings than last year, because the foreign currency inflow in June was six times greater than last years in the same period. By the end of the year, TOS shall have more promotions of international trade fairs, and valuable jobs are expected during the visit to the world's leading turoperatora that Serbia would be happy to have in the offer, writes Jelena Gligorić.
          Secretary of State for Tourism Goran Petkovic does not hide his satisfaction that this year's development activities take place as planned, or that some projects will be finished by the end of the year. Specifically states mountain work on the revitalization of the center Kopaonik. At the tender was elected the best provider for work on the new lift Gobelja, where for the forthcoming season sets a new installation to open another part of the Kopaonik ski resort. These plans are running in parallel with developing master plans for the development of well-known winter center in Serbia. At the Kopaonik privatization process is in process. These days bits will be collected, and until the end of the month it will be known the names of the new owners of hotels and apartments, Geneks capacity on this mountain.

 

Source: Voice of Serbia

           Tour organizations Thomson and Crystal for this season will not offer wintering at Kopaonik. By all odds the past two seasons dealed with losses and for this season Kopaonik eject from their offers. In the future, there is a possibility that the Kopaonik will be back on the list of desirable destinations, but this will depend on a range of factors (the price of fuel, the price and ownership of hotels, the EU accession of Serbia ...).

           We can only hope that it was not a reason for stoping this season with investments in ski infrastructure (lift at Gobelji, the system for artificial snow...).