Tourism Law in Europe
belaying to prevent the client from falling into a crevasse. The guide will usually pass a glacier along a marked path leading to a mountain cabin 6 . In the Czech Republic, a mountain leader can operate in a mountain environment in snow not only on foot or using snowshoes, as typical of mountain leaders, but also using cross-country, back- country and touring skis. However, ski touring is only allowed on marked paths. e) Provider and organiser of physical training and sports services The professional trade denoted as “provision of physical training and sports services” must be distinguished from the activities of mountain leaders and mountain guides. This trade is regulated by the Trade Act and Government regulations specifying the contents of the individual trades. A trade licence for the operation of this trade may be granted to anyone who meets the general conditions for the operation of a trade, i.e. the conditions of clean criminal record and legal capacity, and also a special condition applicable to this kind of trade. This special condition consists in achieving a specific degree of education in this area, whether by study or requalification. The substance of physical training and sports services lies in teaching various skills in the relevant sports discipline and the associated organisation of sports activities for individuals and groups, including lending of sports equipment, instruments and technical means. Furthermore, the provision of physical training and sports services must be distinguished from the organisation of physical training and sports services. The latter is an unqualified trade and consists in arranging the operation of sports facilities and facilities serving for regeneration and reconditioning (e.g. track-and-field and hockey arenas, gyms, outdoor and indoor swimming pools, fitness centres and saunas) and their rental for direct use by consumers for sports activities and physical training, and for regeneration and reconditioning. The operation of the trade of organising physical training and sports services is subject only to the general conditions for the operation of a trade, i.e. the conditions of clean criminal record and legal capacity. 6 See the Union of International Mountain Leaders, Qualification Standard: https://uimla.org/wp- content/uploads/2020/05/3-EN_UIMLA_Standard_avril-2013-final.pdf [ retrieved on 2020-02-16].
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