Podgorica - Montenegro Airlines transported more than 20 000 passengers from Europe during last two weekends.
Out of 20 000 passengers that arrived, more than a half are tourists. Their arrival significantly increased the occupancy rate of Montenegrin hotels. Montenegrin air company, which is especially deserving that the season commenced already in April, took care of their pleasant arrival.
The President of Montenegro Airlines, PhD Zoran Djurisic, expressed his satisfaction with the achieved results and he stressed that aircraft capacities were fully used, and due to that fact the hotel capacities had higher occupancy rate than in the same period last year.
The President of the Company used this opportunity to say: "Out of total number of 20 000 passengers, 1500 belong to the category of so called "casino players". That is a specific category of tourists which spends large amount of money staying in Montenegro. Also, a significant number of business passengers, i.e. business clientele which is interested in Montenegrin industry, arrived, mainly from Moscow. Total number of tourists arriving from Paris and Moscow was around 3 500 and 2800 respectively."
Montenegro Airlines, tourist industry and the Ministry of Tourism and Transport, aspire to prolong tourist season to 6 months, which was not the case in past years.
"Season lasted shortly, and it is evident that this year it started in April. As we may conclude based on booking, this trend from April will continue in May as well. That is what we all want, the season to last from April to October, in order to accomplish good optimization in company’s and tourist capacities", stated Djurisic.
During winter period, Montenegro Airlines faced numerous difficulties, such as: enormously high price of fuel, decline of purchasing power of citizens and of tendency to travel, market competition. Due to this the Company entered the serious process of restructuring. For the last several months numerous measures, that show positive effects, have been conducted.
The Company hopes that introduction of these measures will result in stable business operations. This process includes all employees and they all give their contribution to implementation of this project.
"Montenegro Airlines still has the main role in the development of tourist industry and all social segments which are related to Europe. It created the air bridge between Europe and Montenegro which will be maintained in quality and professional manner in the future as well", concluded the President of the Board of Directors of Montenegro Airlines, PhD Zoran Djurisic.
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