The local administration and the Tourist Organization estimate that Ulcinj has around 100 beds for rent in private accommodation. At the end of the main season, they say that they started a serious fight with the owners of unregistered apartments.
"This year is the beginning of the fight against the gray economy. At the beginning of the season we had 18.500 registered beds, today that number has increased by two thousand beds. When it comes to the number of individuals providing services in the private sector, it has increased from 1.510 to 1.720 ", said Agron Ibrahimi, Secretary for the Economy in the Municipality of Ulcinj.
The Tourist Organization confirms that the number of beds in private accommodation is not realistic. There are seven thousand registered accommodation issuers in their system for registering guest stays.
The Secretariat for the Economy issued only 1.700 work permits, the other five thousand rent out beds illegally.
"In our system, we also have about 1.200 people or houses that are not engaged in renting out, but they have to register, because they are people from the outside and have real estate in our city. Then we arrive at a figure of over five and a half thousand buildings that are they deal with publishing", points out Zana Sarvan from TO Ulcinj.
At the moment, 53 thousand registered guests are staying in Ulcinj, of which 48 thousand are staying in private apartments. Therefore, 28 thousand people sleep in beds that are not registered anywhere, nor do they have permission to issue them, the authorities admit
"This shows that we are far from reality and that the gray economy still dominates or most of the buildings that are rented out are out of control," says Sarvan.
"In order to complete this whole procedure, we will need another year or two to reduce the gray economy in this area to zero," added Ibrahimi.
"No institution can do it alone, but together we can, because we have a database on the basis of which we can move forward," Sarvan points out.
There is also a significant number of facilities with over a hundred beds, which are registered as private accommodation with significantly less displayed accommodation capacity. The state must be involved in solving this problem and suppressing the gray economy, they say from Ulcinj
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