The revision of the New Package Travel Directive Carlos Torres1 I. Introduction: Modifications to the existing framework in the context of maximum harmonisation. – II. The elimination of the typology of linked travel arrangements and the concomitant creation of a non-typology for (in)determined situations that do not result in the creation of a package. – III. Adjustments to the concept of package and other definitions. – IV. Pre-contractual information. – V. Pre-contractual information for booking services that do not lead to the creation of a package. – VI. Inclusion of new details in the travel contract. – VII. Traveller’s right to terminate the package travel contract and the right of withdrawal before the start of the package. – VIII. Vouchers. – IX. Handling complaints. – X. Protection in case of insolvency. – XI. The organiser’s right to reimbursement from service providers. – XII. Final Note. The article analyses Directive (EU) 2026/1024, which amends Directive (EU) 2015/2302 on package travel (NPTD), with a focus on its objective to enhance traveller protection and clarify the existing EU framework without replacing it. The revision operates under a model of maximum harmonisation, leaving Member States limited discretion in transposition. It codifies recent CJEU case law and integrates lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Thomas Cook insolvency, refining rather than reshaping the regime. A central reform is the elimination of the 2015 category of “linked travel arrangements” and its facilitator, which had introduced complexity and legal uncertainty without demonstrable benefit for travellers; this removal entails numerous textual adjustments beginning with Article 1 and extending across the Directive. The concept of “package” is fine-tuned in Article 3(2), clarifying that separate invoicing cannot be used to avoid package qualification and that charging a global price triggers the legal classification of a package; improvements to the criteria for 25% of the value of the combination and click-through package. The revision also broadens and clarifies pre-contractual information duties in Article 5, including adaptation duties for travellers with reduced mobility (covering both disabilities and other permanent or temporary conditions), a requirement DOI 10.60559/ijtthl2026-002 1 Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, email: carlos.torres@eshte.pt
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