Tourism Law in Europe

20 concluded between the travel agent and the hotel owner may take several forms, for instance, constituting a lease of a fixed number of beds for designated clients or clients a priori determined on the legal basis of the clause in favour of the other. The prevailing view in our jurisprudence, however, is that the hotel contract establishes the right of the organiser, who is also the lessee, to provide beds they leased to third parties, namely their clients, following Article 593 CC. Thus, it simultaneously assigns to these clients the lessee’s claim regarding the use of rooms and other pertinent services. The reason for this assignment is the travel contract that the organiser has signed with the client 22 . In reference to the rights and obligations of the contracting parties, the hotel owners reserve the right to ask for an advance payment, which takes the form of a commitment or a guarantee. They may also ask for the payment of the whole sum or part thereof and, if they do not proceed in this manner, they may receive a voucher, i.e. a document from the agent binding them to compensate the hotel owners for the services the latter provides to the agent’s clients. subsequently amended. Amendments to the Regulation that had been effected by Decision No. 5358130/19 of the Secretary-General of the GNTO do not constitute part of the Regulation and do not have the status of rules of law because they were never incorporated in the text of Article 8 Law No. 1652/1986 later. Moreover, Article 1(A)(17)(4a) Law No. 4254/2014 repealed Articles 11, 14, 15 and 16 of the Regulation, while the rest of the provisions are still in force. Despite the fact that the Regulation contains arrangements for only specific aspects of the hospitality contract and the hotel contract, it still is the primary source of law from which the regulatory arrangements for the said contracts are drawn. See also Rizos, E. (2016). Συμβάσεις ξενοδόχων – ταξιδιωτικών πρακτόρων, Σύμβαση εγγυημένης κράτησης – Σύμβαση allotment [Hotel owner – travel agent contracts, Guarantee commitment contract – Allotment contract]. Athens-Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas Publications, p. 7. 22 For the concept and legal status of hotel contracts, see Georgiadis, A. (2007). Ενοχικό δίκαιο, Ειδικό Μέρος [Law of obligations, Special part]. Vol 2. Athens: P.N. Sakkoulas Publications, pp. 451 et seq . and 455 et seq .; Karakostas, I. (2001). Η ευθύνη του παρέχοντος τουριστικές υπηρεσίες [The liability of the provider of tourism services] p. 482; Rizos, E. (2016). Συμβάσεις ξενοδόχων – ταξιδιωτικών πρακτόρων, Σύμβαση εγγυημένης κράτησης – Σύμβαση allotment [Hotel owner – travel agent contracts, Guarantee commitment contract – Allotment contract]. Athens-Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas Publications, pp. 15, 73, and 78; Poulakou– Euthumiatou, A. (2009). Τουριστικό δίκαιο [Tourism law]. 4 th ed. Αthens–Komotini: Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publications, p. 105; Divrioti, A. (2016). Η Ξενοδοχειακή Σύμβαση [The Hotel Contract]. Athens: Nomiki Bibliothiki Publications, pp. 37 et seq .; Divrioti, A. (2016). Δικονομικά ζητήματα που ανακύπτουν εκ της ξενοδοχειακής συμβάσεως [Procedural issues arising from the hotel contract]. Οικονομικές και Νομικές Παράμετροι του Ελληνικού Τουρισμού [Financial and Legal Parameters of Greek Tourism]. 4 th Panhellenic Conference, Tripolis, 15-17 September 2016, In Koutsouradis, A., & Lagos, D. (Eds.). Athens–Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas Publications, pp. 113 et seq .; Psychomanis, S. (2003), ibid ., pp. 16-17; Nezeriti, E. (2017). Η ξενοδοχειακή επιχείρηση ως βοηθός εκπλήρωσης του τουριστικού πράκτορα στο πλαίσιο της σύμβασης οργανωμένου ταξιδίου – Ζητήματα αναγωγικής ευθύνης [The hotel business as servant of the tour operator in the context of the package travel contract – Issues of reductive liability]. Οικονομικές και Νομικές Παράμετροι του Ελληνικού Τουρισμού [Financial and Legal Parameters of Greek Tourism]. ibid ., pp. 302 et seq .; Kardoulia, Ε. (2017). Cadre juridique du tourisme en Grèce - Droit public et privé du tourism e [Legal Framework of tourism in Greece - Public and private tourism law]. éditions universitaires européennes, pp. 46-48.