Tourism Law in Europe

16 Of the total number of tourist guides performing cross-border tourist services on a temporary basis from 2008-2019, 9.69% of them were hosted in Croatia. Croatia is among the top five host countries, after Italy and Lithuania, where tourist guides from other EU MS provide tourist services on a temporary basis (mostly with the qualifications obtained in Slovenia). Figure 8: Tourist guide - top five countries of qualification and top five host countries (2008-2020) 57 However, the TSA does not separately provide for the procedure and the requirements for the recognition of foreign tourism services providers’ professional qualifications. It only prescribes the fulfilment of the conditions for the resognition of their personal qualifications. 58 General rules on the recognition of professional qualifications of the providers of tourism services laid down in the Act on the Regulated Professions and the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications (hereinafter: Act on the Regulated Professions) are harmonised with the EU law on the recognition of foreign professional qualifications. In addition, the Services Act, also harmonised with both the primary and secondary EU law on freedom to establishment and freedom to provide services, applies to 57 Graph retrieved from https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/regprof/index.cfm, accessed on 21 March 2021. 58 Article 69(4) on tourist guides.