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1. Subject to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph 1, this Convention applies to workers employed within:
a) hotels and similar establishments providing lodging;
b) restaurants and similar establishments providing food, beverages or both.
2. The definition of the categories referred to in subparagraphs a) and b) above shall be determined by each Member in the light of national conditions and after consulting the employers' and workers' organisations concerned. Each Member which ratifies the Convention may, after consulting the employers' and workers' organisations concerned, exclude from its application certain types of establishments which fall within the definition mentioned above, but where nevertheless special problems of a substantial nature arise.
3. a) Each Member which ratifies this Convention may, after consulting the employers' and workers' organisations concerned, extend its application to other related establishments providing tourism services which shall be specified in a declaration appended to its ratification.
b) Each Member which has ratified this Convention may, after consulting the employers' and workers' organisations concerned, further subsequently notify the Director-General of the International Labour Office, by a declaration, that it extends the application of the Convention to further categories of related establishments providing tourism services.
4. Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall list in the first report on the application of the Convention submitted under Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation any type of establishment which may have been excluded in pursuance of paragraph 2 above, giving the reasons for such exclusion, stating the respective positions of the employers' and workers' organisations concerned with regard to such exclusion, and shall state in subsequent reports the position of its law and practice in respect of the establishments excluded, and the extent to which effect has been given or is proposed to be given to the Convention in respect of such establishments.