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

International Convention on Travel Contracts (CCV) – Solutions for the Coronavirus on the 50th Anniversary of its Approval: Rise and Fall Claudia Lima Marques 1 Introduction; I. The Rise of a Uniform Convention and its Solutions to COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak; I.1. Origins and Shape of the CCV Convention; I.2. The CCV Convention’s Solutions for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak; II. The Fall of Global Substantive Uniform Solutions and New International Efforts on Tourist Protection; II.1. The Rise of Consumer Law, the Changes in the Global Mass Tourism and the Decline of Travel Agencies; II.2 New International Efforts on Tourist Protection; III. Final Comments. Introduction It is an honour to contribute on the book about the Travel Contracts, reflecting on the Legal Impacts of COVID-19 in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry. This paper’s subject is the UNIDROIT 2 1970 International Convention on Travel Contracts and the analysis of the solutions proposed at this International Convention for Coronavirus. In 2020, the UNIDROIT 1970 International Convention on Travel Contracts (CCV) 3 celebrates the 50th anniversary of its approval 4 . Contrary to the Montreal/Warsaw 1 Prof. Dr. h. c. Claudia Lima Marques, Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre), Brazil, Chair of the Committee on International Protection of consumers, ILA (London) and Expert of the Brazilian Government at the Hague Conference on the Tourism Project. Former President of Brasilcon (Brasilia) and Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional Privado (ASADIP) (Asunción). 2 UNIDROIT is the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law “an independent intergovernmental Organisation with its seat in the Villa Aldobranini in Rome. Its purpose is to study needs and methods for modernising, harmonising and co-ordinating private and in particular commercial law as between States and groups of States and to formulate uniform law instruments, principles and rules to achieve those objectives.” Established in 1926 and re-established in 1940 the UNIDROIT has 63 Members today, avaialable a t https://www.unidroit.org/about-unidroit/overview ( accessed on 26 June 2020). 3 International Legal Materials , Vol. 9, Issue 4 (July 1970), pp. 699-709. 4 The UNIDROIT Brussels Diplomatic Conference adopted the International Convention on Travel Contracts, on 23 April 1970: “At the end of the 1950s, Unidroit began to take an interest in the issue of international