Tourist travel services agreement under the Consumer Protection Act

Abstract

Agreement on package travel is regulated by special provisions of Law on Consumers Protection of Republic of Serbia, modeled by EU Directive on package tours. These provisions significantly changed the legal regulation of the package tours, in comparison with the provisions of Law on Obligations, which also regulates this agreement. Subject of this paper are exactly that provisions about agreement on package tours of Law on Consumers Protection, as follows: notion and characteristics, rights and duties of contractual parties, special rights of contractual parties and merchant's liability. Authors in the paper especially emphasized differences between provisions of Law on Consumers Protection about agreement on package tours and Law on Obligations and EU Directive on package tours.

Keywords

• merchant
• consumer
• tourist travel
• duties
• liability