Introduction
The hotelier industry integrates many and varied legal aspects,
and thus, legal arrangements with regards to the management and
operation of a hotel are accompanied by a system of complex legal
agreements. The parties engaging in hotelier agreements are the
owners of the hotel (the owner of the land and the structure) and
another company which is supposed to operate the hotel. The desires
of each of the engaging parties, and naturally the type of hotel,
require different mechanisms of legal engagements.
There are three main types of engagements: management agreement,
lease agreement and hotelier franchise agreement. While the
engagements within the state of Israel (namely, when the owners and
the company engage in order to operate the hotel are local Israeli
bodies) are usually done by way of a management agreement or lease
agreement, engagements with an international party are usually done
via a franchise agreement. In the article herein we will
