TURIHAB - Historic Housing Tourism Association
STATUTES

1.1 To give support to all the members registered in Directorate-General for Tourism, in the modalities of Historic Housing Tourism, Agro-Turism and Turismo Rural;
1.2 To develop public relations with other entities;
1.3 To promote educational visits, conferences, seminars, and other similar activities;
1.4 To develop promotion and marketing of the touristic product, indoors and outdoors;
1.5 To participate and to represent Historic Housing Tourism in official meetings, tourism fairs and other occurrences;
1.6 To create instruments of promotion, like brochures, maps, videos and slides;
1.7 To establish conditions, prices, services and quality standards;
1.8 To maintain and to keep operate a Booking Center.

General Assembly is composed by all 100 TURIHAB members.
General Assembly comprises one President, one Vice-President and one Secretary. Each House is one vote represented by the owner or by his delegate.
General Assembly has absolute power in the Association and her deliberations are supreme.
General Assembly meetings are regular and exceptional:

– Until the end of March, of each year, to appreciate, to discuss and to vote the Report and Accounts of the Direcção;
– Until the end of December, of each year, to appreciate, to discuss and to vote the Budget and Plan of Activities;
– Once in two years, to elect the Direcção, Fiscal Council and General Assembly representatives.
– By Direcção or Fiscal Council request;
– By request of a minimum of 20% of the total members.

– Electing and dismissing the administrative members that composed the Direcção, Fiscal Council and General Assembly;
– Appreciating and voting, annually, the Report Account and the Plan of Activities or the next year;
– Modifying the rules, approving and changing the Association Regulation;
– Deliberating upon questions concerning these statutes;
– Appreciating and determining the resolutions of the Direção;
– Deciding about the fusion or dissolution of the association;
– Until the end of December, of each year, to appreciate, to discuss and to vote the Budget and Plan of Activities;
– Deliberating about the amount of the admission fee, annual subscription and other contributions for the Association;
– Authorizing to raise a loan or to acquire real estate, under Direção proposal;
– Appreciating and deliberating about all subjects, presented by the members, by Direcção and by Fiscal Council;
– Appreciating and approving development projects;
– Approving the compositions and working of special committee.

Direção comprises one President, one Vice-President, one Treasurer, one Secretary and one Voter.

Managing and coordinating the activities of the Association in order to realize all their objectives;
Executing and making executed the internal rules and general Assembly deliberations;
Admitting and declining admission requests for being TURIHAB member;
Representing the Association or appointing someone to represent it;
Submitting to approval the subjects of the General Assembly sphere of action;
Providing the actualization and exactness of the Association accounting, as also as the registries of reservations, stays and contracts signed under the aegis of the Association;
Proposing to the General Assembly the admission fee, annual subscription and other tax, regular or casual, obligatory to the members;
Proposing to the General Assembly the constitution of special committee.

Fiscal Council meets, ordinarily, once per quarter, every time it’s President hold a meeting.
Fiscal Council competencies are:

• Inquiring, regularly, the Association accounting and applying for external auditor ship services in cases sentenced properly;
• Conferring, regularly, the amounts, cash account and bank deposit;
• Giving statements about questions proposed by the Direção;
• Presenting to General Assembly the report of its inspections and statements about the Report and Direção Accounts;
• Applying for a General Assembly meeting ever when it considers necessary;
• Assisting the Direção meetings, without the right to vote, when sentenced properly;
• Presenting to Direção suggestions with interest for the Association;
• To endeavor for the execution of the Association Statutes.

The admission fee, the annual subscriptions and the variable tax the members must pay;
From subsidies, donations and grants of any public or private entity;
Other non-specific profit, heritage and legacies, that can be attributed to the Association.

TURIHAB - Historic Housing Tourism AssociationSTATUTES