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Since October 26, an almost uninterrupted lava eruption from Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java has killed at least 122 people and forced over 150,000 persons to flee their home. Air transport from and to Java Island was dealing with chaos as airlines started to cancel flights due to the danger present by ash clouds […]

UNWTO will assist the government of China in the formulation of its first ever national tourism law. Visiting the organization’s headquarters, a high-level delegation led by parliamentarians of the China National People’s Congress and the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), agreed to request the technical and political support of UNWTO to design its normative framework

Ryanair filed a complaint with Nominet, the internet registry for .uk domain names, against Robert Tyler as registrant of “ihateryanair.co.uk”, claiming Tyler’s blog which the domain pointed to, contained “vitriolic and highly disparaging” comments about Ryanair. The website also contained links to competing airlines and other commercial links which earned Tyler GBP 322 and were

Mr Dimitrios Gratsias has been appointed by the Member States as Judge at the General Court of the European Union. He replaces Mr Mihalis Vilaras. Mr. Gratsias was born 1957; graduated in law from the University of Athens (1980); awarded DEA (diploma of advanced studies) in public law by the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne

The Scottish Law Commission has established a link with the Malawi Law Commission. Both are law reform bodies. The link is a contribution to the Scottish Government’s Programme on Capacity Building for Justice in Malawi which progresses the provisions in the Scotland-Malawi Co-operation Agreement in 2005 to strengthen governance in Malawi.The Scottish Law Commission is

As a consequence of the impact of this April’s “ash cloud” on tourism activity in Europe, the 89th Session of UNWTO Executive Council (Kish Island, I.R. of Iran, October 25-26, 2010) has decided to initiate a study on a possible new legal instrument for protecting tourists. The study will focus on the harmonization of issues

Plaintiff had booked a package with “Meier’s Weltreisen”. The package included air transport from Düsseldorf to the Dominican Republic and vice versa, hotel accomodation and all inclusive board. With regard to getting to the airport, plaintiff chose to book a rail ticket offered by Meier’s Weltreisen in connection with the package, promoted “to avoid stress

While the United States, Canada and Australia insist on access to the passenger name records of all passengers entering their airspace, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) – an independent supervisory authority devoted to protecting personal data and privacy and promoting good practice in the EU institutions and bodies – issued an opinion on the

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of blind people filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against United Airlines. The suit alleges that United is violating the California Disabled Persons Act and the Unruh Civil Rights Act by using

A multidistrict litigation (MDL) court in California has dismissed claims filed against Air France arising out of an air disaster on a flight between Brazil and France that killed all 228 passengers and crew. In re Air Crash over the Mid-Atl. on June 1, 2009, MDL No. 10-2144 (U.S. Dist. Ct., N.D. Cal., decided October