Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

298 COLLECTIVE COMMENTARY ABOUT THE NEW PACKAGE TRAVEL DIRECTIVE 2011/83 / EU to ensure that it continues to be applied on individual tourist services that are part of a connected tourist service. Under the condition that such individual services are not otherwise excluded from the application area of Directive 2011/83 / EU, and that some consumers rights established in it can also be applied to packages”. With that being said, it is clear that the reason behind the directive is to achieve a complete harmonization, which is necessary in order to establish equal rights for consumers and equal terms for operators. And this occurs in a sector that, in addition to being a strategic one for a proper economic development of the Union, represents the field where consumers every day take an even more active role (as we have seen).