Tour operators - organisation of packages, - facilitation of linked travel arrangement

trade

Organizing, offering and selling tours. A tour means the combination of services. In addition, you can also offer to sell and resell individual tourism services and organize, offer, sell and resell combinations of tourist services. Security of transportation, accommodation, meals, guide service, sales and reservation and ticketing, visa procurement, supply and sale of sporting activities and brokering other services associated with recreation, relaxation and service, meetings. Linked travel arrangement means at least two different types of travel services purchased for the purpose of the same trip or holiday which are not a tour and the provision of which is subject to separate contracts with individual tour operators provided that the travel agency (a) facilitates the customer's own choice and separate payment of each individual tourist service during a single visit or contact with its point of sale; or (b) facilitates in a targeted manner the purchase of at least one other tourism service from another tourism service provider provided that the contract with such provider is concluded within 24 hours after confirmation of the reservation of the first tourist service.

2005/36/EC

Minister of Industry and Trade

a) higher education in a study programme and study field focusing on tourism, or b) further vocational education in a field of education focusing on tourism, or c) secondary education with a school-leaving examination in a field of education focusing on tourism, or d) higher education, or e) further vocational education, or f) secondary education with a school-leaving examination, or g) a retraining certificate or other evidence of professional qualifications for the relevant work activities, issued by an establishment accredited in accordance with specific legislation, or by an establishment accredited by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, or by a ministry in whose purview the sector in which the trade is operated falls, or h) evidence of partial qualifications to act as a tour operator in accordance with Act No 179/2006 on the certification and recognition of the results of further education and amending certain laws (the Act on the Recognition of Further Education Results), or i) documents under Section 7(5)(b), (c), (f), (g), (h) or (i) of the Trade Licensing Act

as to d) 1 year’s professional experience, as to e) 3 years’ professional experience, as to f) 6 years’ professional experience, as to g) 6 years’ professional experience, as to h) 2 years’ professional experience

yes; Section 6 of Act No 455/1991 Coll., the Trade Licensing Act, as amended

no

No (a bankruptcy declaration in itself is not an impediment to the carrying-on of a trade). An impediment to the carrying-on of a trade arises in accordance with Section 8 (1) of Act No 455/1991 Coll., the Trade Licensing Act, as amended, if a bancruptcy of estate of a natural or legal person has been declared, only in the case of sale of the undertaking by means of a single contract in the context of the liquidation of assets in accordance with Act No 182/2006 Coll., on bankruptcy and the methods of handling bankruptcy (the Insolvency Act), as amended; or in the case of termination of the undertaking´s operations by a decision of a court. An impediment to the carrying-on of a trade also arises (for a period of 3 years since a decision enters into force) if an insolvency petition has been dismissed on the grounds that the debtor’s estate is insufficient to defray the costs of insolvency proceedings; or if bankruptcy procedure has been cancelled on the grounds that the debtor’s estate is entirely insufficient to satisfy creditors (Section 8 (2) of Act No 455/1991 Coll.).

Partly, it is only examined whether a natural person was pronounced a ban of the activity in the field or in the related field of the trade by administrative or judicial body.

no

compulsory contractual insurance (insolvency of a travel agency); obligatory annual contribution to the guarantee fund of travel agencies for the relevant calendar year.

Opinion of the state administration body which renders its opinion on the issue of the licence (Ministry of Regional Development).