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

and the General Act of Tourism 25 only deem it as a general rule (objective/strict liability). The only exception is the liberal professional working as a supplier 26 . On the economic impact analysis provided for in the Economic Freedom Act 27 , this impact must have as reference the economic impact in the tourism trade as well as tourist-consumer. It is important that this analysis must have a balance between tourism trade suppliers and consumers. A point of worry is the 90-day limit from the publishing of the Provisional Measure No. 924/2020 to choose if the consumer has one of the three available options already mentioned 28 . Depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil, the indicated deadline may be changed a better option, especially if the purpose of the trip is non-reschedulable (academic or artistic events for example). There is an abuse in prohibiting the use of administrative sanctions listed on the Art. 56 of Consumer Protection Code, as established on Art. 5, Provisional Measure No. 948/2020. This prohibition reduces the possibility of consumer protection and may be used as a motivation to reduce the cooperation of suppliers to solve consumer problems. Additionally, it is important that the Provisional Measures is changed in the federal legislative houses, thus improving the texts in order to solve these possible conflicts, instead of most of conflicts being based on the SENACON Technical Note. At least there is a bill on Emergency and Transitional Legal Regime for Private Law Legal Relations (RJET) in the period of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), not approved in the Senate 29 , then sent to Chamber of Deputies 30 to be approved and currently waiting the Presidential approval to be an Act. The discussion of its text is proceeding and it is probable that this bill will be an Act. 3. Conclusions 25 Act. No. 12.974/2014. 26 Art. 14, § 4, Consumer Protection Code. 27 Art. 5, Act. No. 13.874/2019. 28 Art. 2, §1, Provisional Measure No. 924/2020. 29 Senate Bill No. 1179/2020. Available on https://www25.senado.leg.br/web/atividade/materias/- /materia/141306 , accessed on 5 May 2020. 30 Chamber of Deputies Bill No. 1799/2020. Available o n https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetr amitacao?idProposicao=2247564 , accessed on 5 May 2020.