Legal Regulation of Hostels' Activities: Problems and the Ways to Resolve Them

The article analyzes actual problems of the legal regulation of the activities of hostels in the Russian Federation that are generated by debates with regard to the prospects of their further functioning in the science of civil law, administrative law, constitutional law and labor law and enforcement practices. There are two dramatically opposite approaches to resolving these problems: 1) legalization of the legal status of hostels in apartment buildings, or 2) a total ban on their activities in apartment buildings. The prohibition of functioning of hostels in apartment buildings will lead to a number of negative consequences, namely: potential "criminalization" of the activities of hostels; deterioration of the economic situation in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation; undermining of the basis of tourism and hotel activities; violation of employees ' rights. Hostels are popular among the population. The authors suggest that a certain procedure of hostels' functioning in apartment buildings be established and limitations to their functioning be introduced. Also, the article examines the positive experience of regulating accommodation facilities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Hostel, tourism, internal tourism, accommodation facilities, prohibition of activities, federal legislation, legislation of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, trade unions, labor rights of workers of hostels

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