The Legal Impacts of COVID-19 in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry

Brazilian Perspectives of the Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism Law: Supply Chain and Consumer Aspects Ardyllis Alves Soares  Introduction; 1. Recent Developments related to COVID-19 and Tourist Law; 1.1. Provisional Measure No. 925/2020; 1.2. Legislative Decree No. 6/2020; 1.3. Consumer National Secretariat’s Technical Note No. 2/2020; 1.4. Provisional Measure No. 948/2020; 2. Reflections on Other Brazilian Regulations; 3. Conclusions. Introduction This paper aims to present the recent changes related to the tourism sector in Brazil, especially including all stakeholders linked to the air transport trade. Provisional measures and a technical note were produced to reduce the economic damages caused by COVID-19 and these are the initiatives that will be presented and discussed in this text. Then, in the second part of the chapter, the new legislative and administrative efforts to try to regulate the current situation and to reduce great impacts on the Brazilian tourism sector and consumers will be presented. So as to offer a timeline of the new rules, we will follow the date of their publishing, thus ordering each action. Finally, it will be offered a dialogued analysis of these new rules with some important norms related to the issue. 1. Recent Developments related to COVID-19 and Tourism Law in Brazil Brazil is one of the hardest-hit countries by COVID-19 in the world. A rising number of diseased and dead people linked to undercounting produces an environment of preoccupation in both sanitary and economic aspects. Tourism is a strategic point in the Brazilian economy, occupying a special position of the Brazilian Constitution, which refers, in the Article 180, the tourism sector as a factor of social and economic development to be promoted and motivated by cities, states and federal  Postdoctoral Researcher at University Centre of Brasília. Doctor and Master in Law at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Attorney at Law. CAPES Scholar. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7703-9582 ; e-mail: ardyllis@gmail.com.