Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

The new European Union regulation on package travel and linked travel arrangements within the Italian experience Francesco Morandi 1 1. The implementation of the Directive (EU) 2015/2302 in Italy; 2. The key innovations introduced in the Italian Tourism Code; 3. The notion of “package travel” and “linked travel arrangements”; 4. The form of contract and information obligations; 5. Changes to the package travel contract; 6. The responsibility of the organiser; 7. The compensation for damages; 8. The “intermediate travel contract” and the responsibility of the retailer according to Italian law; 9. Liability duty of insurance and protection in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy; 10. Administrative protection; 11. A few brief concluding remarks. 1. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DIRECTIVE (UE) 2015/2302 IN ITALY In implementing Legislative Decree 21 May 2018, No. 62 2 , Italy has fulfilled the obligations deriving from the Directive (EU) 2015/2302 of 25 November 1 Full Professor of Tourism and Transport Law – University of Sassari. 2 Concerning the implementation in Italy of the Directive (EU) 2015/2302 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015, on package travel and linked travel arrangements, amending Regulation (EC) No. 2006/2004 and Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 90/314/EEC, see G. De Cristofaro, La nuova disciplina europea dei contratti di viaggio (dir. 2015/2302/UE) e le prospettive del suo recepimento nell’ordinamento italiano , in A. Finessi (ed.), La nuova disciplina europea dei contratti di viaggio . La direttiva 2015/2302/UE e le prospettive della sua attuazione nell’ordinamento italiano , Jovene, Napoli, 2017, p. 13, and in Nuove leggi civ. comm. , 2017, p. 1099; previously, M. Lopez de Gonzalo, La nuova direttiva sui pacchetti turistici e la normativa internazionale e comunitaria in tema di trasporto di persone , in Dir. mar ., 2016, p. 405; G. Ciurnelli, I contratti del turismo organizzato , in V. Franceschelli – F. Morandi, Manuale di diritto del turismo , VI ed., Giappichelli,Torino, 2017, p. 350; M. Mazier – C. Cavanna, Introduzione alla nuova direttiva UE in tema di pacchetti turistici e di servizi turistici collegati , in Dir. mar ., 2017, p. 275; F. Morandi, The new european regulation of package travel and linked travel arragements , in Dir. trasp. , 2017, p. 99; R. Pasquili, La Direttiva 2015/2302/UE. Contenuto e forma del contratto di viaggio , in Riv. dir.