Legal Regulations on the Provision of Tour Operators' and Travel Agencies' Services and the Supervison of their Compliance - in Light of European Law

The thesis deals with Czech and EU legal regulations regarding the provision of tour operators and travel agencies services. Special attention is given to the sale of package tours. The thesis analyzes these regulations (in particular Act no. 159/1999 Coll., on certain conditions and the provision of activities in the field of tourism) from a linguistic, systematic and historical method of interpretation. Special emphasis is placed on the state supervision, particularly the control provided by trade licensing authorities which plays the key role in the lawful application of the regulations in practice. Although the thesis aims to the conditions of the provision of tour operators and travel agencies sale of tour packages, it mentions other Czech and EU legal regulations (Act on the protection of the consumer, Act on prices, EU regulations on the protection of the rights of passengers in different modes of transportation) which involve the sale individual travel services. The main chapter is devoted to EU directive no. 90/314 on package travel, package holidays and package tours and relevant decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU and national courts. In this regard the work concentrates on those provisions of the directive which are vague and cause interpretation difficulties in practice. The..