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Slovenia runs guest check-in through the knjiga gostov — and eTurizem within 12 hours.

Every gostitelj must enter each guest in the knjiga gostov within 12 hours of arrival under Zakon o prijavi prebivališča (ZPPreb-1), then transmit those data through AJPES eTurizem on the same clock. Register nastanitvenih obratov (RNO) enrolment is the separate gate to advertise a unit; turistična taksa plus the statutory 25% promocijska taksa are collected and remitted by municipality.

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Essential

ZPPreb-1 requires every guest in the knjiga gostov within 12 hours of arrival, with eTurizem reporting via AJPES on the same clock — on top of RNO registration under ZGos-1 and municipal turistična taksa plus the 25% promocijska taksa.

At a glance · Slovenia

  • Knjiga gostov

    ≤ 12h from arrival

  • Report

    eTurizem / AJPES

  • Licence

    RNO ID number

  • Ljubljana tax

    €3.13 / night

Who this is for

What hosts and hotels actually need to know

Slovenian short-stay compliance is eTurizem-centric, not a soft platform habit. ZPPreb-1 (arts. 39–40) makes the knjiga gostov the core guest-record duty: name, date of birth, sex, nationality, and ID document type and number — entered within 12 hours of arrival, with departure time updated within 12 hours if it was unknown at check-in. Hosts whose units are in the Register nastanitvenih obratov (RNO) report those data once via AJPES eTurizem (daily within 12 hours; monthly statistics for the prior month), which feeds police, SURS and municipalities instead of separate filings. Zakon o gostinstvu (ZGos-1), applicable from 1 January 2026, tightens RNO: a valid identification number must appear in advertising and distance contracts, existing RNO records must be updated by 30 June 2026, and short-term apartment lets (oddajanje stanovanja v kratkotrajni najem) need co-owner / etažni lastniki consents. Categorisation (stars or apples) still applies to hotels, apartments, rooms and farms under the hospitality rules. Turistična taksa is set by municipal odlok under Zakon o spodbujanju razvoja turizma (ZSRT-1), with a mandatory 25% promocijska taksa for the Slovenian Tourist Board — remitted to the občina by the 25th of the following month. FURS treats tourist letting as activity income (obračun via eDavki by 31 March). Self check-in is common from Ljubljana apartments to Bled and the coast; the compliance gate is capturing knjiga-gostov-ready identity data before access is released. Slovenia is a Schengen state.

Front desk or digital, the duty is the same: enter every guest in the knjiga gostov within 12 hours, report via eTurizem, and collect turistična plus promocijska taksa at the municipal rate.

  • 01Enter each guest in the knjiga gostov within 12 hours of arrival (ZPPreb-1 art. 39) and verify identity against the travel document
  • 02Transmit knjiga data via AJPES eTurizem within 12 hours; file monthly statistical data for the prior month
  • 03Hold a valid RNO identification number and meet kategorizacija / labelling rules for the structure type
  • 04Collect and remit turistična + promocijska taksa to the občina by the 25th of the following month (ZSRT-1)

Chapter · Knjiga gostov

The knjiga gostov

ZPPreb-1 art. 39 requires every gostitelj to keep a guest book — electronic or paper — and to enter each guest within 12 hours of arrival, regardless of stay length.

Statute

“Gostitelj vpiše vsakega gosta, ki mu nudi nastanitev, v knjigo gostov najkasneje v 12 urah po prihodu, ne glede na trajanje nastanitve.”
Zakon o prijavi prebivališča (ZPPreb-1), 39. člen [01]
  1. 01

    Data the guest must give at arrival

    At arrival the guest states: name and surname, date of birth, sex, nationality, and the type and number of the identification document. The host may verify identity by inspecting that document. Organised groups of at least eight people staying no more than seven days may supply a group list with the same fields.

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  2. 02

    12-hour entry — and departure updates

    Entry into the knjiga gostov is due within 12 hours of arrival. If departure date and time were unknown at check-in or later change, the host updates the knjiga within 12 hours of departure. Guest-book data are kept for the calendar year and deleted or destroyed one year after that year ends.

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  3. 03

    Inspection and accuracy

    Police and municipal inspectors may inspect the knjiga gostov. The gostitelj is responsible for accurate entries; failure to enter a guest, incomplete data, or late reporting are listed as prekrški under ZPPreb-1.

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Chapter · eTurizem

eTurizem & the 12-hour AJPES clock

AJPES eTurizem is the single electronic channel for transmitting knjiga gostov data for the guest register, tourist-tax monitoring and statistics — replacing separate police, SURS and municipal filings for RNO hosts.

  1. 01

    Daily reporting within 12 hours

    Hosts whose units are enrolled in RNO transmit guest and overnight data via the eTurizem web application or web service no later than 12 hours after the guest's arrival. Departure time, if not known at arrival, is reported within 12 hours of departure (ZPPreb-1 art. 40).

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  2. 02

    Monthly statistical filing

    Statistical capacity and occupancy data for the previous month are filed through eTurizem — AJPES guidance puts the window from the 1st to the 10th of the following month. Plan submissions around that window rather than treating daily guest filings as the only report.

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  3. 03

    RNO is the prerequisite

    Reporting into eTurizem requires the nastanitveni obrat to be enrolled in the Register nastanitvenih obratov first. Hosts who are not RNO-bound report selected knjiga fields to the police electronic system or on the paper guest form instead (ZPPreb-1 art. 40(4)).

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Chapter · RNO & ZGos-1

Register nastanitvenih obratov & short-term lets

ZGos-1 (applicable from 1 January 2026) makes a valid RNO identification number the advertising gate for accommodation — and adds consent and capacity rules for apartment short lets.

  1. 01

    RNO ID before advertising

    Providers must enrol the unit in RNO and obtain an identification number before starting accommodation activity. From ZGos-1, that valid ID must be stated when advertising capacities and concluding distance contracts. Existing RNO records must be supplemented or updated by 30 June 2026; AJPES is upgrading the register and will notify operators of technical steps.

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  2. 02

    Apartment short-let consents and capacity

    For oddajanje stanovanja v kratkotrajni najem, ZGos-1 allows at most one nastanitveni obrat per dwelling (apartment, room or holiday house), capped at 15 guests with at least 8 m² usable space per person. Owner consent is always required; in multi-unit buildings, etažni lastniki consents apply (all co-owners in two-unit buildings; more than three-quarters including adjoining units in three-or-more-unit buildings). Consents last three years. Notice of the start date and a standardised door sticker showing consent expiry are required in multi-unit buildings.

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  3. 03

    Day caps from 2027 — confirm locally

    Time limits on apartment short lets apply after 1 January 2027 in municipalities designated as high-risk (list expected by 30 April 2026) or that adopt their own general act. Do not assume a national day cap is already in force for your občina — confirm locally before planning 2027 inventory.

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  4. 04

    Categorisation (stars / apples)

    Hotels, motels, boarding houses, campsites, holiday apartments and houses, rooms, and farms with accommodation must categorise and display the category. Categories of 1–3 stars or apples may use self-assessment via e-kategorizacija; 4–5 star / apple categories require an independent assessor. Inns, mountain huts and IYHF youth hostels are outside mandatory categorisation unless they opt in.

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Chapter · Tourist tax

Turistična & promocijska taksa

ZSRT-1 requires hosts to collect municipal tourist tax and the statutory 25% promotion tax, report the overnight base through eTurizem, and remit to the občina by the 25th of the following month.

  1. 01

    Municipal rate + 25% promotion tax

    Each občina sets turistična taksa by odlok (within the national framework). Since 1 January 2019, a promocijska taksa equal to 25% of the tourist tax is added for the Slovenian Tourist Board. Guests typically see one combined line on the invoice; the občina splits the promotion share onward.

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  2. 02

    Remit by the 25th

    Collected tourist and promotion tax is paid onto the municipality's dedicated account by the 25th day of the month for the previous month (ZSRT-1 art. 21). Keep overnight counts, amounts collected and exemption reasons aligned with eTurizem records.

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  3. 03

    Exemptions — confirm the municipal odlok

    ZSRT-1 art. 18 sets national exemption and partial-exemption categories (commonly including children under 7 fully exempt and ages 7–18 at 50%, plus specific hostel / camping cases). Exact application depends on the municipal odlok and the eTurizem exemption codebook — confirm locally rather than assuming a single national table.

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Chapter · FURS

Fiscal track for short-term hosts

FURS treats tourist letting advertised on platforms as activity income — registration comes before advertising, and the annual obračun is a separate clock from eTurizem.

  1. 01

    Register before you advertise

    Natural persons may operate as a registered sobodajalec (occasional short lets, capacity limits under hospitality law, entry in the Poslovni register) or as a samostojni podjetnik. FURS states that advertising tourist lets without proper registration is treated as undeclared work under ZPDZC-1.

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  2. 02

    Activity-income obračun by 31 March

    Income from tourist letting is taxed as dohodek iz dejavnosti. File the obračun akontacije dohodnine in dohodnine od dohodka iz dejavnosti via eDavki by 31 March of the following year. Cash payments also trigger fiscal receipt (davčno potrjevanje računov) rules under ZDavPR.

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  3. 03

    Sobodajalec day limit under ZGos-1

    ZGos-1 allows a sobodajalec to operate apartment short lets for up to 180 days in a calendar year (a day counts when at least one guest is lodged; departure day is not counted). Older FURS / SPOT summaries still quote a 150-day / five-month frame — treat the statute as controlling and confirm current FURS brochures when registering.

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Chapter · EU layer

EU law that sits underneath

Slovenia's knjiga gostov, eTurizem and RNO rules sit inside the same European stack hosts meet elsewhere — Schengen lodging purposes, GDPR, and the 2024 short-term rental data framework.

  1. 01

    Schengen Convention — Article 45(1)(b)

    Lodging providers across Schengen states are expected to account for who stayed where. Slovenia's knjiga gostov and eTurizem reporting (with AJPES feeding the police guest register) are a national implementation of that public-security logic.

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  2. 02

    GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679)

    Knjiga gostov and eTurizem data are personal data. Collect what the legal basis requires, inform guests, secure transmission to AJPES, and respect the statutory one-year-after-calendar-year retention limit on the host's own guest book.

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  3. 03

    Short-term rental data — Regulation (EU) 2024/1028

    From 20 May 2026, where Member States operate STR registration/data systems, platforms work through harmonised registration numbers and activity reporting. Slovenia's RNO identification number sits in that same transparency direction.

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Remote arrival · Still the law

Self check-in under Slovenian rules

Remote arrival is common in Ljubljana apartments, around Lake Bled and on the Piran coast. The compliance gate is capturing complete knjiga-gostov identity data before access is released — eTurizem transmission is the separate 12-hour reporting clock that follows.

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Document

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E.turistas

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Keys

  • Identity data before access

    Build name, date of birth, sex, nationality and ID document type/number into the check-in flow itself — and release door codes or lockbox instructions only after those fields are complete and the host can verify them against the document when required.

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  • eTurizem runs on its own 12-hour clock

    Once entered in the knjiga gostov, data still need to reach AJPES eTurizem within 12 hours of arrival — and departure updates within 12 hours when needed. Capture and transmission are sequential duties, not the same step.

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  • RNO ID is a separate prerequisite

    Timely eTurizem filing does not substitute for a valid RNO identification number on listings. Confirm RNO enrolment, ZGos-1 consents for apartment short lets, and the municipal tax rate before automating remote arrival at scale.

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  • Tax and FURS are later clocks

    Tourist-tax remittance (25th of the following month) and the FURS activity-income obračun (31 March) sit after check-in — but incomplete guest data at arrival breaks the eTurizem and tax evidence chain.

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Municipal & tax layers

eTurizem and RNO are national. Cities still set their own turistična taksa rates — Ljubljana, Bled and Piran currently sit at the statutory maximum combined figure.

  • Ljubljana riverside and castle — municipal tourist-tax territory

    Ljubljana — tourist tax

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    Mestna občina Ljubljana sets turistična taksa at €2.50 per person per day; with the 25% promocijska taksa (€0.63) the combined charge is €3.13 (€1.57 at 50% exemption). Visit Ljubljana publishes the table under the municipal regulation — confirm any later odlok change before quoting guests.

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  • Lake Bled island church — municipal tourist-tax territory

    Bled — tourist tax

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    Občina Bled publishes the same full rate: €2.50 tourist tax + €0.63 promotion tax = €3.13 per person per day (€1.56 at half rate). Remit to the municipal account by the 25th for the prior month; holiday-home owners may also face a separate annual pavšalna turistična taksa — confirm that track with the občina if applicable.

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  • Piran peninsula on the Adriatic — municipal tourist-tax territory

    Piran — tourist tax

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    From 1 January 2025, Občina Piran sets turistična taksa at €2.50 + €0.63 promotion = €3.13 per person per day in the main territory. Private landlords in Sečovlje, Dragonja, Sv. Peter, Nova vas and Padna use a reduced row (€1.58 + €0.40 = €1.98). Confirm the settlement before quoting coastal guests.

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This is the law · Here is the reference

Sources & references

Primary statutes, EU instruments and competent authorities. Open the link when your property is at stake.

  1. [01]Local law
    Zakon o prijavi prebivališča (ZPPreb-1) — arts. 39–40

    Primary statute for the knjiga gostov, 12-hour entry/reporting duties, guest data fields, retention and eTurizem / police channels.

  2. [02]Local law
    Pravilnik o prijavi in odjavi gostov

    Secondary rules on how guest arrival/departure data are transmitted (Uradni list RS, št. 75/2016).

  3. [03]Authority
    AJPES — Poročanje o gostih in prenočitvah (eTurizem)

    Official eTurizem channel: daily reporting within 12 hours of arrival; monthly statistics; replaces separate police / SURS / municipal filings for RNO hosts.

  4. [04]Authority
    AJPES — Register nastanitvenih obratov (RNO)

    RNO enrolment is the prerequisite for eTurizem reporting; hosts manage unit data on the AJPES portal.

  5. [05]Agency
    AJPES — ZGos-1 impact on RNO

    Confirms RNO data update by 30 June 2026, mandatory valid ID for activity, short-let consents, and day-limit timing from 2027.

  6. [06]Local law
    Zakon o gostinstvu (ZGos-1)

    Hospitality Act applicable from 1 January 2026: RNO ID, categorisation, apartment short-let consents, capacity, sobodajalec 180-day frame, and future municipal day caps.

  7. [07]Authority
    GOV.SI — Novi Zakon o gostinstvu (24 Dec 2025)

    Official summary of short-let capacity, mandatory RNO ID in advertising, RNO update by 30 June 2026, consents, and day limits from 2027.

  8. [08]Local law
    Zakon o spodbujanju razvoja turizma (ZSRT-1)

    Statutory basis for turistična and promocijska taksa, municipal rate-setting, exemptions, and remittance by the 25th of the following month.

  9. [09]Agency
    SPOT — Categorisation of accommodation facilities

    Which structure types must categorise, self-assessment vs assessor, and e-kategorizacija process.

  10. [10]Agency
    SPOT — Sobodajalstvo

    Registration path for sobodajalec in the Poslovni register, RNO and eTurizem duties for private hosts.

  11. [11]Authority
    FURS — Oddajam stanovanje preko Airbnb in Bookinga

    Activity-income taxation, registration before advertising, eDavki obračun by 31 March, VAT and fiscal-receipt notes for platform hosts.

  12. [12]Authority
    Visit Ljubljana — Tourist tax in Ljubljana

    €2.50 tourist tax + €0.63 promotion tax = €3.13 (€1.57 at 50% exemption).

  13. [13]Authority
    Občina Bled — Turistična taksa

    Official Bled table: €2.50 + €0.63 = €3.13 (€1.56 half rate), with links to the municipal odlok.

  14. [14]Authority
    Portorož & Piran — Tourist tax in the Municipality of Piran

    From 1 Jan 2025: €3.13 combined in the main territory; reduced €1.98 row for listed inland settlements.

  15. [15]Guidance
    Policija — Prijava gosta (guest-registration guidance)

    Police guidance linking knjiga gostov / eTurizem duties for hosts (leaflet and related pages).

  16. [16]EU law
    Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement — Art. 45

    EU-layer lodging / guest-record purpose.

  17. [17]EU law
    GDPR — Regulation (EU) 2016/679

    Personal-data rules for identity and guest-book processing.

  18. [18]EU law
    Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 — short-term rental data

    EU framework for STR registration data and platform sharing (from 20 May 2026).

  19. [19]Agency
    European Commission — STR transparency rules

    Plain-language explanation of the May 2026 framework.

After the law · The product

Where NextStay fits

After the law is clear: we build knjiga-gostov-ready identity capture into the check-in gate — so Slovenian hosts can run remote-friendly arrivals without skipping eTurizem or the municipal tax trail.

  • 01

    Identity before the key

    Online check-in collects the guest fields ZPPreb-1 requires before door instructions unlock — matching the knjiga gostov duty for every overnight guest.

  • 02

    eTurizem-ready records, on the clock

    Structured stay data is ready to transmit within the 12-hour AJPES window for arrival and departure updates, without a last-minute scramble.

  • 03

    Host visibility without desk chaos

    Hotels and individual hosts see who has completed identity capture, who is blocked, and when access can release — including late Ljubljana and alpine arrivals.

  • 04

    Destination guidance in the workspace

    This Slovenia dossier stays attached to the market — knjiga gostov, eTurizem, RNO / ZGos-1 and municipal taksa — not a generic EU footnote.

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