Tourism Law in Europe

25 package as a whole or, if the package is provided under separate contracts, all contracts covering travel services included in the package”. This means that a contract constitutes a package travel contract even if it does not include a transfer but just the provision of accommodation and other tourist services. Indeed, the most common combination does include both travelling and staying at a designated destination, but that does not preclude the existence of other combinations, such as travel and visits to monuments, archaeological sites, museums or recreational venues or even participating in some form of alternative tourism (e.g. thermal tourism or sports tourism), accommodation, provision on the part of the organiser of the adequate equipment for a sports activity, as well as the relevant training. It is possible for the traveller and travel organiser to negotiate and customise the holiday package. VII. Conclusions All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Greece may predicate its economic development, to a great degree, on tourism. In order to achieve this goal, tourism must be included in all forms of public policy development and the interconnection between the private and the public sector must be reinforced. It is true that public authorities, having realised the great economic significance of tourism for Greece, have endeavoured to increase the competitiveness of tourism through policies that improve productivity, the quality of tourism administrations and organisation. The Greek government seems to be more responsive than in the past regarding the all-important role tourism plays as a driver for growth. Applying the rules of law is a necessary condition to develop a system that more efficiently specifies the roles and responsibilities of each organisation and actor in the tourism sector. Indeed, as previous experience has shown, the abundance of rules governing tourism activities and the dispersion of written sources – more specifically, laws, presidential decrees, regulatory acts, ministerial decisions and jurisprudence – and of oral sources (traditional hotel management practices) create problems as regards the codification of tourism law. Public tourism law, particularly administrative law, has become more mature since the State started to actively and consistently intervene in the tourism phenomenon and also