A big tent with a kitchen, a restaurant and a cocktail lounge will be put on the site of the main building of the Olympic Centre which burned down in a fire in January this year, the manager of Club Adriatic company, Ivica Prevolsek, said this past week.

Club Adriatic, a state-owned company which operates the Olympic Centre, in September started preparing the centre for the winter season.

Even though the fire did not destroy the centre's apartments, those accommodation facilities were connected to the boiler room where the fire broke out and work on repairing the boiler room is expected to be completed by December 5 when all facilities of the Bjelolasica Olympic Centre are expected to have heating again, Prevolsek said.

He said that the centre's small ski run would be opened and a small ski lift put into operation to replace the main ski lift, which had not been in use for two years and needed repair but would not be renovated this year due to lack of time and money.

Prevolsek said that a plan would soon be made to restructure and stabilise the Olympic Centre Bjelolasica, including a plan to provide for possible redundant labour. The centre now employs about 120 people.

Plans for next year include the start of construction work on a new, four-star hotel which will have close to 50 rooms, a multipurpose congress hall, a wellness centre, a swimming pool, gyms and other amenities, said Prevolsek.