Dossier
Hospitality
Development
Platform
Background, structure and operation of the platform driving professionalisation and self-regulation in the coffeeshop sector.
Professio- nalisation
About this dossier
The Hospitality Development Platform (HOP) is the partnership in which the coffeeshop sector works on professionalisation, knowledge sharing and public accountability. The platform arose from the need for a self-regulation framework that goes beyond ad-hoc municipal arrangements.
This dossier describes what HOP is, how it was set up, which working groups and themes are active — from compliance to public health — and how it relates to BCD as the industry association.
It closes with the roadmap: where HOP is heading in a sector that is slowly moving from tolerance to regulation.