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ETOA, which represents inbound European tour operators warns UK government to go ahead with plans to increase Air Passenger Duty (APD) next November while the Netherlands and Belgian governments have this month abolished departure taxes in an effort to give a stimulus to tourism through their international airports. ETOA fears that APD could make the […]

Contrary to its previous position, on Monday the U.S.cruise ship industry supported proposed federal safety legislation, which would provide cruise ships with increased security.The bill aims to make reporting crime aboard ships mandatory and require ships to install security latches and peepholes in cabin doors. Along with security precautions, ship physicians would also have to

In 2002, the Commission took the view that certain aid granted by Greece to Olympic Airways was incompatible with the common market for failing to comply with certain conditions initially laid down. The aid had to be recovered without delay. Faced with inertia from Greece, the Commission first made an application to the Court in

In France potential passengers –mostly from the Comores community – are refusing to fly again with Yemen flag carrier, denouncing the poor quality. They ask French authorities to ban the airline from French and even EU skies. It is an unprecedented move against an airline with serious potential consequences for the airline industry: Passengers forcing

According to the June edition of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer international tourism declined by 8% between January and April compared to the same period last year. Destinations worldwide recorded a total of 247 million international tourist arrivals in those four months, down from 269 million in 2008. Given the changes in the outlook UNWTO

Today the European Commission adopted a “consumer enforcement package” to strengthen the EU-wide enforcement of consumer rules. The package consists of: a Communication setting out five priority areas for action, and a report on the first two years of application of the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Regulation1, which established an EU wide network of public

U.S. Federal lawmakers want to know what will happen to sensitive data of more than 150,000 travelers after the country’s leading airport secruity fast-lane company ceased operation last week. The House Homeland Security committee asked the TSA in a letter last Thursday to explain what it knows about the privacy of the data of the

For 40 years, Utah required customers to become a member of a private club before they were allowed to set foot in a bar. Now this requirement was eliminated in an effort to boost the state’s $7 billion-a-year tourism industry and make the state appear a little less quirky to outsiders.Source: USA today; find article

…31. In the explanatory memorandum to its original proposal for a regulation, the Commission noted, at point 20, that ‘[c]ancellation by an operator … represents a refusal to supply the service for which it has contracted, except in exceptional circumstances beyond its responsibility, such as political instability, severe weather conditions, inadequate security and unexpected safety

In Cases C-402/07 -Sturgeon and C-432/07 – Böck both related to the destinction of cancellation and (extra) long delay according to Reg. 261/2004, Advocate General Sharpston in her opinion delivered this morning pointed out that in the course of the legislative process, regardless the importance there does not appear to have been a strong focus