Access to this activity is contingent upon a TRADING LICENCE which can be acquired from the Tourism and Hospitality Chamber of Slovenia.

The procedure is initiated when a provider lodges an application with the Tourism and Hospitality Chamber of Slovenia. The applicant shall also submit all the supporting documents and pay the costs relating to the procedure.

Once a month, the received applications are reviewed by the COMMISSION for the issuing of licences to tourist agencies.

When the issuing body establishes that the application complies with all the conditions, it issues a decision on granting the licence, as well as a representative trading licence certificate.

The information related to the issued licence is entered in the REGISTER OF GRANTED LICENCES.

Conditions and evidence

1. Legal status and registration

Persons who wish to pursue this activity must hold the appropriate legal status (e.g. sole trader, limited liability company, limited partnership). Also, they need to register the business activity, and be entered in the Slovenian Business Register.

Supporting evidence

Extract from the Slovenian Business Register (AJPES – The Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services), acquired by the competent authority.

2. Clean criminal record of the operator

The person who operates the activity and is the legal representative of the applicant may not be a person who has been convicted of an economic crime or a crime against the security of legal transactions, or a person who has been prohibited from the selling or brokerage of travel packages by way or a court order, for as long as the prohibition is in effect.

Supporting evidence

Extract from criminal records kept by the Ministry of Justice.

3. Suitable education and work experience of the responsible licence holder

The person who operates the activity and is the legal representative of the applicant shall have:

  • at least post-secondary vocational education and three years work experience in this activity.
    The condition shall also be considered to be met if the operator has provided tour operator services:
  • for six consecutive years in a self-employed capacity or as a manager of an undertaking for six consecutive years, and the pursuit of the activity did not cease more than ten years before the date of lodging of the application for the issuing of the licence for the organization of travel packages, or
  • for three consecutive years in a self-employed capacity or as a manager of an undertaking where the operator can prove that he/she has received at least three years’ prior training for this activity, attested by a nationally recognized certificate or regarded by a competent professional body as fully satisfying the requirements, or
  • for four consecutive years in a self-employed capacity or as a manager of an undertaking where the operator can prove that he has received at least two years’ prior training for this activity, attested by a nationally recognized certificate or regarded by a competent professional body as fully satisfying the requirements;
  • or for three consecutive years in a self-employed capacity or as a manager of an undertaking where the operator can prove that he/she has pursued this activity for five years in an employed capacity, and that the pursuit of the activity did not cease more than ten years before the date of lodging of the application for the issuing of the licence for the provision of tour operator services; or
  • for five consecutive years in a self-employed capacity or as a manager of an undertaking where the operator can prove that he/she has received at least three years’ prior training for this activity, attested by a nationally recognized certificate or regarded by a competent professional body as fully satisfying the requirements; or for six consecutive years in a self-employed capacity or
  • as a manager of an undertaking where the operator can prove that he/she has received at least two years’ prior training for this activity, attested by a nationally recognized certificate or regarded by a competent professional body as fully satisfying the requirements.

Supporting evidence

Certificate of completed education;

employment contract or certificate of payment of pension insurance contributions

4. Business premises

The provider shall perform this activity at the business premises which are not a residential unit and are accessible to the customers within the specified working hours, which are displayed in a prominent place.

Supporting evidence

The provider shall have appropriate business premises and shall submit the following evidence to that effect:

  • a land register extract, or
  • a sale and purchase agreement for real estate, or
  • a lease agreement, or
  • a court decision or order, or
  • other evidence

and

  • a statement by the provider that the business premises are not part of a residential building,
  • a statement by the provider that the business premises are accessible to customers,
  • a statement about working hours, with the recommendation that these hours are displayed in a prominent place.

For more information on how to  to pursue the sale of tourist packages in Republic of Slovenia, please do not hesitate to contact us: http://www.sibiz.eu/contact.html