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Advantages of UHPA Associated Membership
- Membership in UHPA gives you the right to use UHPA logo as a sign of reliability and quality relating your service users and increased possibility to establish business relations with reliable companies - active and associate members of UHPA.
- Your data and activities will be included in our two Internet portals: at www.putovanja.hr for Croatian travellers travelling in Croatia and abroad, in the Croatian language only, and at www.Croatia-travel.org, for foreign visitors to Croatia, for time being, in English language only. Both databases are linked to the Croatian National Board website. Links from our databases to your web pages will increase visits to your website too. Using home (front) pages of both databases you will be able to inform the public about your new services and products free of charge. You will win even greater recognition if you include banners
- You can use the password for entering UHPA member database on the Internet for latest and stored news, instructions and regulations essential for the operations of travel agencies in Croatia. Using this database you will get daily information and a possibility to answer new queries by individual tourists and agencies from your country about package holidays in Croatia, accommodation and other services in Croatia, and about other offers of our suppliers.
- The buyers are directed to your agency by providing a search of your offer to Croatia, by searching UHPA member directory on the Internet, including you in the UHPA agency manual and forwarding to you queries arriving in UHPA office.
By advertising in UHPA publications, or putting banners on front pages of UHPA´s databases on the Internet at member rates, you not only save on costs but also direct the messages at target potential partners and travellers. For your target marketing, at your request, UHPA office will send you search results of members´ activities. (addresses by e-mail for further processing). You can also use UHPA´s directories of Croatian and foreign tour operators and agencies. as well as professional literature.
- As a part of regular information and at your request , you will receive free advice about regulations in catering and tourism, as well as on the implementation of Croatian, European and world code of practice in the operation of agencies and hotels.
- UHPA follows problems in the work of individual members, integrates initiatives and proposals of all members and intervenes for them with relevant ministries, bodies, institutions, associations and companies. UHPA has appointed representatives in different councils, committees and bodies of the Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transportation and Development, Croatian National Tourist Board and tourist boards at lower levels, BSP of Croatia, in professional associations at world, European and international levels, as well as in important foreign national associations of tour operators and agencies. We will update you about changes in regulations important for the operation of travel agencies.
- You will be weekly, sometimes daily, updated about different incentive measures and news in the work of the Croatian Government, the Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transportation and Development, other relevant ministries , institutions and bodies, Croatian national and regional tourist boards, airline companies, hotel enterprises and other suppliers.
- You will be informed on news in the work of most important international professional associations and their members. UHPA represents Croatian agencies in UFTAA/FUAAV, ECTAA, ASTA, DRV, ORV, RDA and closely cooperates with all leading national associations of travel agencies worldwide.
- You will be invited to participate in UHPA annual General Assembly meeting, to the meetings of such sections, work groups and regional committees in which you are interested. In this way you will be able to engage UHPA for your interets too. Together with discussion and extending or confirming your knowledge from professional and business practice, you will get new business contacts, exchange experience and learn how other UHPA members operate.
- You will have access to UHPA´s "Black List" of agencies and service providers, and, at your request UHPA will help you in settling financial claims and disputes with agencies and suppliers.
- You and your staff will be able to attend UHPA´s seminars and lectures by Croatian and foreign tourist experts (very often free of charge).
- You will be included in UHPA´s annual agency manual, the only one distributed at all tourist fairs worldwide and in Croatia where Croatian National Tourist Board or UHPA´s delegates take part, at the meetings of the foreign Associations of tour operators and agencies, tourist and economic representative offices of the Republic of Croatia. The manual is a popular and reliable source of information to all suppliers, big companies, conference organizers and different institutions in Croatia and it is used as a reference of good standing of UHPA members presented in it. The right to advertise is reserved only for members and invited partners. With relation to clients, partners and suppliers, this will additionally qualify you as a specialist for travel to Croatia.
- Why pay more? At member prices you will be able to advertise in the agency handbook, put banners in the two Internet databases, get UHPA´s publications ( on regulations in tourism), while the analyses and materials issued for seminars held so far will be provided free of charge. All UHPA´s publications are in Croatian language, except for the book "Croatian Travel Agencies 1923- 2003" (in English and Croatian language), and UHPA' annual travel agent manual and membership list, printed in English only.
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