Tourism Law in Europe

6 information centres, walking and cycling trails, parks, and sports facilities, along with local marketing activities. The amount of fees is determined by each municipality separately with its municipal ordinances. The promotional fee is charged in addition to the tourist fee and amounts to 25 percent of the amount of the charged tourist fee. It is intended for the planning and implementation of marketing and the promotion of the comprehensive tourist offer of Slovenia, which is carried out by the Slovenian Tourist Board. 3. Sharing Economy Slovenian legislation lacks specific rules concerning short-term lodging rentals via online platforms such as Airbnb. Housing Act of 2003 14 regulates apartment rentals; however, its provisions are intended mainly for traditional long-term leases rather than short-term leases of the Airbnb type. Short-term leases are usually performed as an economic activity and may fall under the rules of on performing economic activities in apartment buildings. Apartment owner may only perform an economic activity that does not disturb the residents of a multi-unit building and does not burden excessively the common parts of the building (such as staircases, elevators, lobbies, playgrounds, parking lots etc.). It is disputed whether Airbnb-type short-term lease of an apartment to tourists can still be considered such a peaceful economic activity. In any case, the apartment owner must obtain approval of more than three quarters of the shares of all the apartment owners and the mandatory consent of the apartment owners right beside and under the apartment in question. The provision of short-term apartment lease may amount to landlord service as a type of hospitality service under the Hospitality Industry Act. Natural persons may perform such services occasionally (in total no more than five months in a calendar year), if they offer up to 15 beds, and are entered in the Business Register of Slovenia as a “landlord«. Where these limits are exceeded, the landlordmust register as a sole trader or set up a company. The premises in which any landlord (be it a natural or al legal person) intends to perform hospitality services, must have a valid usage permit in accordance with the law governing 14 “Stanovanjski zakon”, Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 69/03, with further amendments.