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  title info:
    title: Traveller Vulnerability in the Context of Travel and Tourism Contracts
    sub title: A Comparison of Brazilian and EU Law
  name:
    name part: Sanches Lima, Maria Goretti.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 226 p. 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The book highlights the link between consumers and travellers, identifying the meaning of vulnerability in Brazil and the EU. It also covers different types of contracts for tourism and travel services, including online booking processes. Only after 2015, as a result of the directive on package travel and linked travel arrangements, did the EU begin viewing travellers as consumers in the sense of Union Consumer Law; conversely, in Brazil, the traveller has no legal status whatsoever and is considered solely a consumer. As the traveller is implicitly a consumer he/she is subject to vulnerability. However, the definition of vulnerability differs considerably between Brazil and the EU: while in Brazil it is a principle stemming from the Consumer Defence Code, covering all consumers, in the EU vulnerability is not an established principle. In the EU, although the average consumer is assumed to be reasonably well informed, observant and circumspect, they are also recognised as the weaker party in the contract. That recognition does not fit with the notion of "confident consumer". Vulnerable consumers in the EU are those whose individual characteristics, such as their age, physical or mental infirmity, or credulity, make them particularly susceptible to unfair commercial practices. Conversely, in Brazil these consumers are seen as being hyper-vulnerable, rather than solely vulnerable. In this context, travellers are in a weaker position than regular consumers buying goods or services, because they are outside of their domicile or jurisdiction for a brief or extended period of time. This book examines two types of traveller vulnerability that make travellers, particularly international ones, a special type of consumers: 1. External and 2. Legal (jurisdiction). Travellers' vulnerability mainly stems from consumers travelling to different markets and different cultures. As such, they are subject to different laws that require special global attention. While both the EU and B…
  table of contents: 1 Introduction: Ist he Traveller a Consumer? -- 2 Brazil Consumer and Tourism Laws -- 3 Europe Consumer and Travel Laws -- 4 Analysis: Consumer, Traveller and Vulnerability -- 5. Conclusion: Travellers' Protection.
  note: by Maria Goretti Sanches Lima.
  subject:
    topic: Private international law
  subject:
    topic: Conflict of laws
  subject:
    topic: Tourism
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Law-Europe
  subject:
    topic: International business enterprises
  subject:
    topic: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law
  subject:
    topic: Tourism Management
  subject:
    topic: European Law
  subject:
    topic: International Business
  classification: K7000-7720.22
  classification: K7073-7078
  classification: 340.9
  classification: 340.2
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319983769
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98376-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 181103
    record change date: 20191022041306.0
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