Law and Legislation in Lithuania for tourism

Tourism. Main types of tourism. Recreational tourism. Cognitive tourism. Entertainment tourism. Laws and legislation for tourism. The purpose and application of the law. Laws protecting tourists. Laws for catering companies. Auditing Catering companies. The classification of rural tourism. The laws for rural tourist.

The term of toursim includes a variety of options. Main term of a tourism describes it as

an activity of travelling with the following goals: recreational, cognitive or entertainment.

Even though, recently the term is more described as leaving your home place, your region, country ar just a normal daily routine. The main goal is to expand your point of view, get to know other regions, countries and cultures, meet new people.

1.1.1. Recreational tourism includes services like: hotels, rural tourism homestead, spa centres, sanatories. The places are mostly choosen to be near by the beaches, mountais or lakes.

1.1.2. Cognitive tourism includes museums, all types of educational institutions. The main goal is to get to know other cultures or cultural herritage, visit historical places, expereince new landscapes, wild nature and wildlife.

1.1.3. Entertainment tourism – includes places for entertainment starting with clubs, bars, diferent types of entertainment shows, amusement parks like Disneyland, Legoland, Heide parks etc.

1.1.4. Short Term Tourism – could be weekend trips including going to the countryside, or vice versa, means cities, visiting museums, theatres or shopping places. This type of tourism could be the combination of both: cognitive and recreational tourism.

The base for laws protecting tourists are regulated by the similar complementary laws: law of the Lithiuanian Republic, Civil Code, Law of Tourism, Agriculture, Environment protection, Law of Forest, Water bodies and others .

1. This law is made for determine priciples of the organisation of tourism service. Tourism service delivery and the law of requirements for tourist protection, national and municipality institutions competence in a tourism section.

2. According to this law‘s II section requirements are not applied for:

1) organized touristic trips, tourism service set, taking less than 24 hours period, except cases when overnight stay is included;

2) organized touristic trips, tourism servise sets, which are offered by individual and legal person for non- profit goals and this service is not provided neither constantly has been offered for wide sociaty;

3) organized touristic trips and tourism service sets, which are gained by the contracts made for oganizing bussiness trips, which were made between individual and legal person, operating with common goals associated with market, bussiness, trade, proffesion.

3. This law is synchronized with the laws of Eupean Union which are wriiten in the annex of this statute.

1. Accomodation service – economical activities, which were made by terms to meet the needs of hyniene and overnight stays.

2. Accomodational service provider – individual and legal person, other forganisation or their subdivision (futher – legal person), by this lawset order for supplying overnight stay service.