Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

ARTICLE 3 | INMACULADA GONZÁLEZ CABRERA 151 travel cannot be made. Also, the tour operator must reimburse the amounts collected for services not provided by the trader at the destination due to the insolvency of the tour operator that has allowed the preparation of the travel. It is not foreseen, however, the return of the previously liquidated amounts if the services are not provided due to the insolvency of the employer who must supply them. Finally, dealing with the repatriation of the traveller has also been anticipated, if the operator that allows the assembly of the linked travel is the one who is obliged to provide the transport service. Obviously, all the above will be effective if Spain does not go a step further in transposing this Directive and does not decide, in accordance with its national legislation, to protect in the same way the different travel combinations, regardless of whether it is a package travel or a dynamic package (Indicated in 21 of the Directive 2015/2302). Now, if we look back and review the position of the Spanish legislator and the jurisprudence on the package travel contract, it does not seem that such solution is easy to adopt. In our opinion, it is not the most appropriate option either, among other reasons because if this were the definitive option of the Spanish legislation when incorporating the Directive 2015/2302 into domestic law, it would greatly aggravate the responsibility of the intermediaries, imposing a guarantee that is exceptional in the mandated contract. VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY APARICIO VAQUERO, J.P. y BATUECAS CALETRÍO, A.: “Régimen de responsabilidad en la prestación de servicios turísticos contratados como paquetes dinámicos”, Paquetes dinámicos: Problemas y soluciones jurídicas desde una perspectiva internacional, Paniza Fullana, A. (dir.), Dykinson S.L., Madrid, 2014, pp. 55-90. CAMARGO GÓMEZ, J.D.: “Contratación electrónica de paquetes dinámicos de turismo en el ordenamiento jurídico español”, Ars Iuris Salmanticensis, Vol. 2, diciembre 2014, p. 95-125. FERRER TAPIA, B.: “Aspectos subjetivos de los paquetes dinámicos. La situación del consumidor”, Paquetes dinámicos: Problemas y soluciones jurídicas desde una perspectiva internacional, Paniza Fullana, A. (dir.), Dykinson S.L., Madrid, 2014, pp. 31-54. GOMEZ CALLE, E.: “En torno a una posible revisión del régimen de viaje combinado”, en La revisión de las normas europeas y nacionales de protección de los consumidores: más allá de la Directiva sobre derechos de los consumidores y del Instrumento Opcional sobre un derecho europeo de la compraventa de octubre de 20011, Sergio Cámara Lapuente y Esther Arroyo i Amayuelas (coord.), 2012, pp. 385-420. GÓMEZ LOZANO, M.M.: El contrato de viaje combinado, en Contratos Mercantiles, Bercovitz Rodríguez-Cano, A./Calzada Conde, M.A. (coord.), 5.ª ed., Aranzadi, 2013, pp. 596-657. GÓMEZ LOZANO, M. M. Y GONZÁLEZ CABRERA, I.: “ La garantía de la responsabilidad contractual de las agencias de viajes en concurso”, Revista de Derecho Concursal y Paraconcursal, num. 13, 2010, pp. 341-348.