3^rd HOTEL & GASTROTEH held 24^th – 28^th February 2010 – the programme of the biannual international fair of hotel and restaurant equipment and catering is dedicated even more to exhibitors displaying hotel and catering equipment and the gastronomy programme of foodstuffs, as well as to the corporate public: hotel and restaurant managers, investors in the field of tourist trade, all entrepreneurs and people employed in the catering and tourism. According to projections of the national Association of small and family-run hotels, in the following period, the Croatian tourist offer should be enlarged by some 300 small and family-run hotels, the construction of which will be supported by around 1 billion EUR. Most of them will be four-star hotels. In accordance with the long-term plan, Croatia should have at least a thousand of such facilities. The previous 2^nd HOTEL & GASTROTEH held in 2007 gathered 143 exhibitors at 6,384 sq m of exhibiting space.