KRIZE PRÁVNÍ ÚPRAVY CESTOVNÍHO RUCHU
THE CRISIS OF LEGAL REGULATION OF TOURISM

Author(s): René Petráš
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Tourism, Commercial Law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Legal regulation of tourism; act No. 159/1999 Sb., governing some conditions for business activities in tourism; directive 90/314/EEC; directive 2302/2015/EU;
Summary/Abstract: Legal regulation of tourism has been for past few years coming through vast changes and this instability is often marked as one of the key problems of the field. Regarding the present changes of legal regulation, significant amendments due to the new directive on package tours should be highlighted. It is questionable whether the Czech Republic will be able to comply with time limit requested by the EU – thus passing it until the end of the year with legal force since July 2018. There are also present attempts to connect the fees related to tourism with the act on local fees. The changes also concern related constituent fields such as wine growing with respect to great amendment which came to force on 1 April 2017 or the historic preservation where is even new act created which is, according to critics, worse than the present one from 1987. Still, the discussions about act on support of tourism development, work on which has been lasting for several years now, have not fallen silent yet. Organisation of tourism has always been and up till now still is partly unclear which has negative impact on regional development. Oftentimes, everybody was rather waiting for the act (like in central part of Bohemia) or the measures taken on the regional level were inconsistent, when f. e. the management of destinations was created, then liquidated and now it is restored again.

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