Those establishments consisting of accommodation units that are offered as self-contained accommodation, and managed under the business operating unit principle, which are professionally and habitually used for providing temporary accommodation without constituting a change of residence for the person staying there.

Tourist apartments can be operated under the block mode (an entire building or complex consisting of flats, apartments, villas, chalets or similar, with communal installations and services, which a single business operating unit assigns to tourist traffic) or the combined mode (aggregate of two or more tourist accommodation units, located in the same or adjacent buildings and without constituting a block, which a single business operating unit assigns to tourist traffic). The accommodation unit is considered to be the part of a tourist apartment establishment that is self-contained and for the exclusive and private use of the person staying there.