Occasions: New register of short-term lodging (supply: ČT24)
Suppliers of short-term lodging will in all probability need to register visitors in a unified register. The modification permitted by the ministers takes this into consideration. In accordance with their concepts, the state ought to get a greater overview of who supplies which in a single day lodging to whom. Uncertainty prevails primarily with gives by way of on-line platforms corresponding to Airbnb or Reserving. On the similar time, the modification will permit municipalities to partially regulate any such lease.
In boarding homes and related institutions, each customer should at present be registered within the lodging system. The info is then supplied individually to the overseas police, municipality or authorities. “Right this moment, I’ve devoted colleagues inside my employees for this. So it takes time,” declared Lukáš Kordule, the proprietor of a boarding home close to Dobříš within the Příbram area.
Simplification is to be led to by a brand new register referred to as eTurista, the place all information will probably be entered and the authorities will take it over themselves. On the similar time, it ought to deliver higher management of short-term lodging suppliers. In accordance with the Ministry for Regional Improvement, as much as seventy % of those that supply lodging by means of on-line platforms should not reported wherever.
Municipalities also needs to be capable of regulate this type of lodging. “In touristic areas, these actions usually restrict the provision of flats for residing, thereby rising the strain on market rents within the place and really having a destructive affect on the residents as properly,” declared Deputy Prime Minister for Digitization and Minister for Regional Improvement Ivan Bartoš (Piráti).
Patrik Nacher, deputy chairman of the ANO parliamentary membership, additionally expressed his assist for the creation of the register on behalf of the opposition. “It is only a matter of discovering some sort of balanced normal that permits folks to freely get rid of their property whereas not proscribing the rights of individuals within the neighborhood,” he mentioned. “This might contribute to enhancing the scenario,” he added.
Various European cities, together with these within the Czech Republic, are battling the onslaught of vacationers. Some cities strictly restrict short-term leases and have launched excessive charges.