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Organisation
General Assembly
The General Assembly is HOTREC’s highest decision-making body and brings together the representatives of all member associations. It is notably responsible for:
The General Assembly generally takes decisions by consensus.
The General Assembly usually meets twice per year. The member associations take turns in hosting the General Assembly according to a rotating schedule.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is responsible for the management of the association. It consists of seven members, which have been elected by the General Assembly for a renewable period of two years. The Executive Committee is chaired by the President.
The Chief Executive Officer prepares and attends the Executive Committee’s meetings.
The Executive Committee members
Secretariat
The Secretariat, which is based in Brussels, is in charge of the day-to-day management of the association and its activities. The Secretariat works in close liaison with the President and the Executive Committee, as well as member associations. It is led by the Chief Executive Officer.
HOTREC staff members
Social Dialogue Steering Committee
The social dialogue Steering Committee runs HOTREC’s sectoral social dialogue with its trade-union partner EFFAT, based on the mandate conferred by the General Assembly. The social dialogue Steering Committee comprises five HOTREC representatives, including one Chairman, which are elected by the General Assembly for a renewable period of two years.
Members of the HOTREC Social Dialogue Steering Committee
To know more about HOTREC’s sectoral social dialogue with EFFAT, please follow this link.
Quality Board
The Quality Board was set up to deal with HOTREC's European Hospitality Quality (EHQ) scheme. The activities of the Board are led by a Chairperson, elected by the General Assembly. Member Associations may designate experts in quality issues to take part in the work of the Board.
Chairman of the HOTREC Quality Board
Sustainability Task Force
This recent task force has as its main objective to decide on the HOTREC long-term strategy and actions on several legislative and non-legislative issues related to sustainability, such as ecological labels, as well as to revise HOTREC positions in the area so far.
The Sustainability task force is not only looking into the political initiatives, but also into business experiences and exchange of best practices amongst HOTREC members, which will constitute the basis for any future HOTREC action in this field.
Copyright Working Group
This ad-hoc working group is there to deal with all copyright-related issues that are affecting the hospitality industry on a daily basis, as every establishment must pay large copyright and neighbouring right fees for the use of protected works. This group has been recently re-launched and meets according to the evolution of the policy issues of interest.