MONTENEGRO | SNEŽANA MILADINOVIĆ DROBNIČ 425 working on upgrading its tourism offer with the purpose to attain as favourable position in the international tourism market as possible. In addition to making constant investments into tourism and hospitality facilities as part of these efforts, changes are also introduced into the structure of tourism offer. There is a trend of multiplying and diversifying tourism services, but the offer still includes interesting, unique, and distinctive services which have potential to attract tourists. Visitors are lured by breathtaking natural locations whose beauty is reflected in contrast of colours and terrain, captivated by the closeness of soaring mountains and the coast, and irresistibly attracted by numerous canyons, rivers, Skadar lake and well-preserved biodiversity in these places. Numerous cultural and historical monuments, as well as religious and other buildings carrying the traces of exciting historical times arouse interest of tourists. Montenegro is a country nourishing distinctive gastronomy and wine production. The combination of all the listed is what recommends Montenegro as an attractive destination for tourists. II. BRIEF PRESENTATION OF THE BEGINNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM AND TOURISM LAW IN MONTENEGRO The legal history of Montenegro, deemed as interesting and distinctive in its many aspects, offers for a review legal regulations which could be classified, if looked from today’s perspective, as regulations applicable to tourism and hospitality activities. Here we speak about regulations which, obviously, preceed the contemporary national tourism law. The analyses of both the content of these regulations and the time in which they were developed resulted in a detailed report on emerging economic and legal ambience and also brought light to multiple connections between and mutual dependence of, on one hand, development of market and market relations, and obligations and commercial relations and, on the other hand, development of tourism and hospitality services. The same interconnection and dependence is applied to the rules regulating these areas. We can perceive four phases of development of tourism and hospitability activities and legal regulations. The beginning of the first phase is connected to the year 1888 and developing the General Property Code for Montenegro. This phase lasted up to the beginning of the First World War. The second phase encompassed the period between two world wars, while the third one stretched from the Second World War to 2006, which is a year when Montenegro restored
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