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

the release of immediate reimbursements expressed in the MP No. 948 is a situation that works for the moment, safeguarding the tourism service providers, among them the travel agencies. If they were obliged to immediately make reimbursement of the values of the cancelled trips, as it regularly happens on the occasion of the joint and several liabilities existing in the Brazilian consumer protection legislation, to which they are subject, they would be fatally bound to its closure. 6. Conclusion The measures already adopted and in force really represent measures of the Brazilian Government for the attempt to give oxygen to the country's tourism, therefore, also to the Brazilian travel agencies. It is evident that the Government will still face countless challenges, in several areas, namely tourism. However, every tourism service provider, among them the travel agencies, are currently doing everything to reinvent their activity, connecting more and more to new tools and new technologies and taking advantage of this moment to train all its professionals. So, above all, they need their Government very much, so that their businesses will continue standing until this has passed.