Accommodation check
Structure questions on accommodation and guest admission.
Tool
Accommodation check
Classify questions on accommodation and guest admission in Austria.
Contact person
Mag. Bernhard Brandauer, Austrian attorney-at-law
BRANDAUER Rechtsanwälte
Mag. Bernhard Brandauer assists with the legal assessment of tourism contracts, operating issues, levies and liability matters.
This check takes you through the first classification questions: does the matter concern the business, registration duties, guest admission or damage to property brought into the accommodation?
The result shows which information is particularly useful for a legal assessment. It does not replace an assessment of the individual contract or circumstances.
Tool
Accommodation check
Structure questions on accommodation and guest admission.
Please classify your matter for legal review.
Result
Your orientation
What to collect for the next step
Record the accommodation period, the role of each person involved, the type of business and the correspondence so far. In a damage matter, photographs, inventory or handover documents and a short chronology are also useful.
Useful documents
- Business description, trade documents and a description of the specific offer
- Booking confirmation, accommodation terms and proof of payment
- Registration documents or information on the guest register, where relevant to the classification
- For damage: photographs, inventory, notice to the business and documents showing the amount of loss
Legal bases
- Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act, section 111, hospitality trade and accommodation of guests
- Registration Act 1991, section 5, accommodation in hospitality establishments
- General Civil Code, section 970, liability in guest accommodation
Accommodation and guest admission
The topic overview explains the key interfaces between business, guest and accommodation.
Prepare business documents
The checklist helps organise information and documents for an initial assessment.
General orientation based on selected Austrian legal bases. Whether a trade licence, a registration duty or liability applies depends on the specific business, sequence of events and contract.
Discuss a tourism-law matter
Briefly describe the business, location, parties and issue. We will discuss which documents and next review step may be useful.
Contact
Clarify a tourism-law question
Address
BRANDAUER Rechtsanwälte GmbH Giselakai 51 5020 Salzburg
Phone
+43 662 6280000