e-Turista: current legislative status

What would change

Under the MMR government bill of September 2026, accommodation providers would:

• register the establishment before accommodating the first guest, and register every unit offered through an online platform before the listing goes live (a registration number under EU Regulation 2024/1028),
• enter for each guest, no later than 24 hours after they are accommodated, their sex, year of birth, country and municipality of permanent residence, citizenship and dates of stay, plus the purpose of stay and the other details the Foreigners’ Residence Act requires for foreign guests,
• for foreign guests, thereby also meet the foreign police report and the house-book duty. The municipality (for the accommodation fee) and the Czech Statistical Office would get the data from the registry too.

The government bill does not abolish the fee register (evidenční kniha). Municipalities could also restrict short-term rentals in flats in apartment buildings by local regulation: a period of the year with no letting, a maximum number of days per year, or a maximum number of guests by floor area. The opposition bill (Chamber print 106) differs in a few points: it would count a registry entry as keeping the fee register, and it would raise the accommodation fee cap from CZK 50 to CZK 100.

The underlying legal duty to report guests isn’t going away — e-Turista changes how that duty is fulfilled, not whether it applies.

Current status (October 2026)

The original government bill from the previous term (Minister Kulhánek, Chamber print 761) passed its second reading in April 2025 but never reached a third reading before the autumn 2025 election, and it lapsed when that Chamber’s term ended. There are now two new bills, and neither has passed the Chamber:

• The MMR government bill. The Ministry for Regional Development (Minister Zuzana Mrázová) sent it into inter-ministerial comments on 14 September 2026, and the comment period closed on 13 October 2026. Next the ministry settles the comments and the cabinet discusses the bill. The cabinet has not approved it and it has not been sent to the Chamber. The proposed effective date is 1 January 2028.
• The opposition MPs’ bill (Chamber print 106, filed 10 February 2026). It is based on the lapsed government bill. On 9 March 2026 the cabinet adopted a dissenting opinion on it: it considers the registry necessary, but wants the scope of the data, who must use it and the data feed to the police settled first. The print is on the agenda of the Chamber’s 34th session, which opened on 13 October 2026, but as of 15 October 2026 it has not had its first reading. A parallel MPs’ bill on municipal regulation of short-term rentals (print 107) is at the same stage.

The date mandatory registration would apply is therefore still uncertain. 1 January 2028 is only the date in the government bill, not in any law. If you’ve seen a specific launch date elsewhere, treat it as provisional until the law actually passes and the technical reporting format is published. We keep the full chronology on the eTurista Radar. The EU regulation on short-term rentals (2024/1028) has applied since 20 May 2026 but does not introduce registration in Czechia by itself — see our guide to the regulation.

What to do now

Nothing changes yet. Accommodation providers must keep meeting today’s requirements exactly as they stand — see the Foreigners’ Residence Act and the Local Fees Act. Waiting for e-Turista before getting compliant isn’t a safe bet, since the launch date isn’t fixed yet.

How we’re tracking this at Best Guest

We’re monitoring e-Turista’s legislative progress and will adjust our reporting integration as soon as the technical requirements and effective date are final — including a free transition from your current UbyPort setup or other guest books. We track the current status on the eTurista Radar page, where you can sign up for an email the moment something changes. See our e-Turista guide for a deeper explainer.