Four coffees, tea and sparkling water in a private restaurant in Bjelasica, part of the Kolasin ski center, cost over 30 euros. A similar scenario was seen last year, when a storm of comments on social networks was triggered by a kačamak.
The prices come from the same restaurant and do not reflect the real price policy that exists in the city, explains Dragana Šćepanović, a longtime correspondent of Vijesti from Kolašin.
"A private person, that is, the owner of that restaurant, according to his discretion and his business logic, can determine the price of services in his restaurant, but it is far from the average prices in Kolašin. The problem is that Kolašin, as it seems to me, from the level of local administration, but even from the level of the competent department of the Ministry of Tourism, there is no strategy for responding to that negative campaign," Šćepanović said.
The infamous tradition continues that pepper prices in restaurants are among the main associations with Kolašin. Šćepanović notes that because of the image that is created in this way, others who live from tourism in Kolašin suffer.
"There are places for average citizens of Montenegro and the region, and this should be emphasized as a message when presenting the tourist offer of Kolašin as often as possible and constantly mentioned that in statements to the media, representatives of the tourism industry emphasize that the offer of one restaurant is not the offer of the whole of Kolašin ", she points out.
The tourism organization Kolašin and the Municipality itself did not advertise on this issue, although Šćepanović believes that an adequate reaction should have followed much earlier.
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