The draft law informally agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators clarifies the definition of a travel package, conditions for cancelling a trip, and travellers’ rights to information, help and refund in various situations, including when their travel organiser goes bankrupt or extraordinary circumstances cause travel disruptions.

Definition of a travel package

New rules should make it easier to know which combinations of travel services constitute a package and therefore fall under the protection provided by this law. The existing category of linked travel arrangements will be removed, so there will be one uniform definition and criteria linked to when and how the combination of services are booked. When the travel organiser invites the client to book additional services that would not form a package with previously booked services, the client has to be informed of this.

Online purchases, where linked booking processes enable easy combinations of services offered by…