NTAK – questions and suggestions

The presidency of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI) has sent their questions and suggestions to Ivett Bődi, deputy CEO of the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ). MVI’s view is that it would be very important to have more reliable and segmented data from the hospitality sector, but the guild also has ideas about implementing the NTAK system in practice. Postponing the system’s launch means a lot for the sector, but there are still problems to be resolved. MVI president László Kovács and vice president Rudolf Semsei have collected the guild’s suggestions.

As for the data transfer obligation of online software, if a restaurant is full of guests, it is nigh impossible to monitor it all the time whether the data transfer was successful. It would be best if the NTAK obligation referred not to calendar days, but the time periods when the restaurant is actually open. MVI reckons that today it is quite hard to categorise products, so a simpler and less ambiguous system should replace the present one. There are small hospitality units where there is only an online cash register, because they simply don’t use restaurant software. How will these places comply with the NTAK data providing rules? MVI’s presidency also suggested that an agreement should be signed with the Central Statistical Office (KSH), for making NTAK the single source of data for KSH. //