Journal of Tourism and Services - Vysoká škola obchodní v Praze

a certificate that the self-employed is legally established in another
member state. For this purpose
a record from the Trade Register is used. The documents concerning
the qualification are also required. The submitted documents must be
usually translated into the language of the host country, sometimes
a certified translation is required too. Everything is completed by a copy
of a document about the citizenship of EU a member state, i.e. a passport
or identity card.
If this activity is not regulated in the country of origin, but it is regulated
in the host country the notification must be accompanied by the
documents confirming at least two years performing the activity in the
country of origin during the past ten years. The application form together
with the relevant documents will be sent by the entrepreneur to the
recognition authority in the host country. The notification is valid for one
year, the event additional provision of services after the expiration of this
period it is necessary to send the notification once again to the competent
authority. In this case a notification without the accompanying
documents (if in the meantime there was no fundamental change in the
required conditions) is sufficient. If the notification does not comply with
the legal conditions, the recognition authority is obliged to notify this to
the notifier. In the case that the notifier provides services in the host
country under these conditions in the regulated activity, it is an
unauthorized professional activity which is penalized. Within the
European Union the tourist guide activity (tourist guides) is regulated in
the following countries: the Estonia, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia,
Slovenia and Spain.
5. Conclusion
The list of the above mentioned countries shows that in most tourism
developed European countries a tourist guide activity is mostly regulated
trade. Also from the historical perspective the Czechoslovakia, resp. the
Czech Republic was the country with a regulated trade. Beside this even
in the former socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1980´s of the last century
the Ministry of Trade and Tourism paid great attention to the training and
professional competences of tourist guides. The fact that in the Czech
Republic foreign tourist guides can perform guiding activity without
notification, and without the prove of elementary knowledge in the field of
tourist guide activity, lead both to the fact that these foreign guides
present incorrect information about the Czech Republic, and thus damage
not only image of the Czech Republic, but they also take jobs of Czech
tourist guides and reduce the quality of tourist guide services. Therefore,
the pressure to change the overall situation in this field and professional
competences of tourist guides is justified. The second area, which would
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