Officials announced that Washington D.C. will sue popular online hotel-booking firms in order to recoup millions of dollars in unpaid taxes. The complaint is similar to other lawsuits across the nation, which accuse leading online travel companies of basing their tax receipts on wholesale prices paid by the online booking agency— not the retail rate […]
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Oklahoma County District Court Judge Daniel Owens has ruled against Oklahoma’s legal effort to collect back sales taxes from online travel reservation companies which offer discount hotel rooms.Source: NewsOK; find article here>>.
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The plaintiff, a Virgin Islands citizen purchased a ticket for a Liat airline flight from Tortola, British Virgin Islands, to Antigua, scheduled to depart on July 28, 2002. On the day of departure, he checked in on time, and obtained a boarding pass and seat assignment. Due to overbooking, Liat could not accommodate all ticketed
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On August 31, 2008, the plaintiff traveled together with her husband on a flight from Frankfurt/Main to Malaga, operated by the defandant. Upon arrival she discovered that her golf bag (checked baggage) was lost. She claimed that the bag did not only contain her own golf equipment but also that of her husband who had
The Dublin Metropolitan District Court referred the follwoing questions to the Court of the European Union:Do circumstances such as the closures of European airspace as a result of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, which caused widespread and prolonged disruption to air travel, go beyond “extraordinary circumstances” within the meaning of Regulation 261/2004?If
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After the civil unrest, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdelnour is launching a campaign to bring tourists back to Egypt. The ministry plans to make use of the power of modern communication technology and online and social media to spread the message that Egypt is a safe and secured tourist destination.A number of European
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According to a new World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)/UN Women report launched at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin, women make up an important percentage of the tourism workforce, but more work must be done to close the wealth and skills gap between men and women employed in tourism. Women are almost twice as likely to
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Following the decision of the ECJ in case C-585/08 (Pammer v. Reederei Schlüter), the Austrian Supreme Court (OGH) has now referred the case back to the court of fist instance to determinewhether the defendant knew (or should have known) that the agent’s business was of international dimension;what the relations between the defendant and the agent
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The Finish Korkein oikeus referred the following questions to the ECJ:Is Regulation No 261/2004 and in particular Article 4 thereof to be interpreted as meaning that its application is limited only to cases of denied boarding which are caused by overbooking by the air carrier for economic reasons, or is the regulation applicable also to
As reported by serveral sources, Chinese Government has banned the entry of foreign visitors to Tibet as the third anniversary of a bloody anti-government riot in 2008 approaches. Chinese travel agents organizing trips to Tibet have been ordered not to receive foreign visitors. China strictly limits access to Tibet by foreign tourists, requiring them to
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