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In the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak, when tourism was still feasible, many tourists cancelled their journeys for preventive reasons. In the later stage, following the announcement of pandemic and the adoption of public restrictions on the free movement of persons, tourists had to cancel reservations of planned services, unless this had already been done by their contracting partners - such as travel agencies, transport companies, hotels, etc. - or occurred ipso facto due to national restrictions on public transport. This paper focuses on consumer protection during the coronavirus crisis. Although the tourism, hospitality and transport industry will face a crisis, a whole burden of coronavirus-related cancellations should not be put on consumers, which are particularly vulnerable in this situation.

While some areas of tourism and travel law are regulated at EU level, such as package travels, passenger rights, time-share and long-term holiday products, several issues still need to be addressed. Among these are hotel contracts unless they form an integral part of a package travel. This paper addresses the issue, thereby taking into consideration the traveller’s rights, according to the Package Travel Directive, as well as the rights of an air passenger according to the Slovenian law.