Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON TRAVEL CONTRACTS (CCV) 643 achieve international global conventions (with substantive uniform rules and also with Private International law rules) are greater 13 . Erik Jayme 14 points out that, nowadays, multilateral conventions, in general, have three difficulties: 1) the interpretation should be uniform to attempt the objective of global uniformisation; 2) the praxis of the ‘uniform’ Conventions are challenging since the judges prefer to use the national law and, normally, do not know how or when to use these Conventions; 3) the ‘uniform’ Conventions get older, but they are more difficult to change as the national laws. Authors may wonder if the unification of substantive law belongs in the past 15 , as States prefers soft law (Model Laws, Legislative Guides and Principles) or ‘anational’ private arrangements (such as lex mercatoria or Incoterms) 16 . It is not to undermine the current growing importance of international civil procedure rules 17 , ADR/ODR and the administrative cooperation to prevent cross-border litigations in tourism matters 18 , showed, for instance, in the recent Hague Conference Tourism Project 19 – where this article’s author serves as Brazilian expert. I. THE RISE OF A UNIFORM CONVENTION AND ITS SOLUTIONS TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC OUTBREAK The UNIDROIT Brussels Diplomatic Conference adopted the International Convention on Travel Contracts (hereinafter CCV Convention) on 23 April 13 For instance, the UNIDROIT attempt to unify the law governing Hotelkeeper’s liability could not reach the status as convention, vid . RADESICH, Giorgio. The Draft Convention on the Hotelkeeper’s Contract: An Exercise in the Unification of Private Law, 20 Comp. & Int’l L.J. S. Afr. 294 (1987). 14 JAYME, Erik. Identité culturelle et intégration: Le droit internationale privé postmoderne – in: Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de la Haye, 1995, II, p. 68. 15 Vid . BOELE-WOELKI, Katharina. Unifying and Harmonizing Substantive Law and the Role of Conflict of Laws . Pocketbooks of the Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden: Martinus Nijhof Ed, 2010, pp. 63 & ff. 16 Vid . BASEDOW, Jürgen. The Law of Open Society , The Hague Academy of Private International Law, Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 91 & ff. 17 JAYME, Erik. Identité culturelle et intégration: Le droit internationale privé postmoderne – in: Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de la Haye, 1995, II, p. 47. 18 MARQUES, Claudia Lima. The Need for a Global Cooperation Network to Protect Foreign Tourists/ Consumers and the comeback of Private International Law. The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law , A Commitment to Private International Law- Essays in honour of Hans van Loon, Intersentia: Cambridge, 2013, pp. 311-312. 19 Reports available at https://www.hcch.net/de/projects/legislative-projects/protection-of-tourists (accessed on 28 July 2020).