When package deals are cancelled, the organisers may offer customers vouchers rather than reimbursing the cost of the holiday, on a voluntary basis. Today the German government has agreed the cornerstones for a regulation of this sort. Given the ongoing crisis, the aim is to avoid pushing organisers into insolvency.
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the travel branch hard
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In this the German government is complying with the EU Package Travel Directive and with the recommendations of the European Commission. The Cabinet will soon adopt a bill laying out these provisions.
The cornerstones provide for the following:
In addition, the German government intends to modify the existing assistance programme for the German economy in the very near future to embrace specific support measures for the package travel branch.