The Portuguese Hotel, Restaurant and Similar Association (AHRESP) will have delegations in all districts by the end of 2025, the president of the board said today.
“We want to be where the companies are, throughout the national territory. The country has 18 districts and two autonomous regions. This is our limit. We reach 18 districts and two autonomous regions. From next year onwards, there will only be four districts left”, the president of the AHRESP board, Carlos Moura, told journalists today, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the new facilities of the Coimbra delegation.
Currently, the business association has 14 delegations, but, from the first half of 2024, it will have a total of 16 physical delegations, with two located in Braga and Madeira.
According to Carlos Moura, there are no delegations in the districts of Beja, Portalegre and Vila Real.
“It is not worth having a large headquarters in Lisbon, as we do, if we are not spread throughout the national territory”, he highlighted.
Coimbra today inaugurated new AHRESP facilities, in the city center, in the D. Pedro V Municipal Market building, a moment that was also marked with the integration of eight more new members.
According to the president of the AHRESP board, this space is very important, as people can ask questions, particularly regarding legislation.
The president of Coimbra City Council, José Manuel Silva, stressed that the municipality has been concerned about working with all institutions and associations to jointly enhance the development of the municipality.
The location of the new facilities in the Market contributes to fulfilling the City Council’s strategy of turning that location into a “multipurpose space”.
“AHRESP members will now go here and, naturally, they will have the assistance of the Chamber to resolve everything that is necessary and they will have all the market offer”, highlighted the mayor.
At the inauguration ceremony, the president of the AHRESP board took the opportunity to talk about the three strategic axes defined at the time of the elections – gastronomy, people and the presence of AHRESP in all districts of the national territory.
Carlos Moura also noted that Gastronomy Day, celebrated this year in Mafra, will be celebrated in Sertã in 2024.
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