hospitality contract21, the package travel contract22 or the hotel contract23, as well as the conference and forum services contract24. This is due to the importance that restaurants or catering enterprises enjoy in the context of tourism, as they are one of the most important sources of income from tourism facilities25, which in turn are among the most important source of national income26. 21 For the new legal framework for the hospitality contract in Greece, see the Decision of the Minister of Tourism “New Regulation on Relations between Tourism Accommodation Providers and their Customers” (Ministerial Decision 4109/11.03.2025, Government Gazette, issue B` Nr. 1546), which regulates the rights and obligations of hoteliers and their customers. Compare Apostolos Tassikas, “Liability arising from the hotelier-customer relationship under the new legislative framework”, in 1st Conference on Tourism Law, Heraklion, Crete, June 20-21, 2025 (in Greek, pending). On the hospitality contract in Anglo-American law, see Stephen C. Barth & Diana S. Barber, Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry, 6th ed., Wiley (passim); Sandi Towers-Romero, Law and the Hospitality Industry, second edition, Durham, North Carolina: Carolina academic Press, 2021 passim; Nelson Migdal, Hotel Law. Transactions, Management and Franchising, 2015, Routledge (passim). For the hospitality contract in the French law, see Yasmine Eddam, The hotel contract: booking, rights and duties of the customer and the hotelier, 17 April 2025 [available at https://solent-avocats.com/en/the-reservation-hotel-contract-rights-and-obligations-of-the-customer-and-the-hotelier/, accessed 15 July 2025]. 22 See Directive (EU) 2015/2302 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on package travel and linked travel arrangements, amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 90/314/EEC (OJ L 326, 11.12.2015, pp. 1-33). Compare for the UK legal order “The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018, UK Statutory Instruments 2018 No. 634” [available at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111168479/ contents, accessed 15 July 2025] and “The Package Travel Regulations 2018 Guidance” [available at https://assets. publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62dea082e90e0766afece5ee/package-travel-regulations-2018-guidance.pdf, accessed 15 July 2025]. 23 The contract agreement between hotel and travel agency, which may involve either guaranteed reservations (guaranteed reservation contract), where the hotel commits to providing a specific number of rooms for the tour operator`s clients or room allotments (allotment contract) where the hotel commits to a range of rooms within a specific period allowing for some flexibility in booking. Compare Evanthia Kardoulia, “Public and Private Tourism Law in Greece” in Carlos Torres et al (eds.), Tourism Law in Europe, ESHTE: Estoril 2022 (available at https:// intranet.eshte.pt/TourismLawInEurope/tlie6/18/, or http://hdl.handle.net/11728/12441, accessed 15 July 2025); Artemis Divrioti, The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the guarantee hotel contracts in Greece, 8 June 2021 (available at https://www.ibanet.org/Covid-19-hotel-contracts-Greece, accessed 15 July 2025). Compare in the Swiss private law the so called ‘Kontingentsvertrag’ (‘contingent contract’), see https://mrp-hotels.com/en/hotel-glossar/ allotment/, and https://www.h-hotels.com/de/reise-glossar/kontingentvertrag (accessed 15 July 2025). Compare in the Anglo-American law, Karen L. Morris, Jane Boyd Ohlin & Sten T. Sliger, Hotel, restaurant, and travel law: a preventative approach, 2017, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company (passim). 24 The latter contributes significantly to developing and activating an important type of tourism known as ‘conference tourism’, see Emma Delaney, Understanding and Negotiating Contracts with Venues, in Vipin Nadda, Ian Arnott & Wendy Sealy (ed.), Legal, Safety, and Environmental Challenges for Event Management, 2020, p. 84-102 [DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3230-0.ch005]. 25 A large number of articles in the international literature show that food and gastronomic experiences do not simply enhance the satisfaction felt by a visitor, but also their sense of well-being, their intention to revisit the same destination, and even their sense of having had an unforgettable experience, David Mora, Miguel Ángel Solano-Sánchez, Tomás López-Guzmán & Salvador Moral-Cuadra, Gastronomic experiences as a key element in the development of a tourist destination, International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science (2021) 25, Article 100405 https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgfs.2021.100405; Fu-Chieh Hsu & Noel Scott, Food experience, place attachment, destination image and the role of food-related personality traits, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2020) 44, 79-87 https://doi.org/10.1016/j. jhtm.2020.05.010. 26 Based on a study by SETE (Greek Tourism Enterprises` Confederation), the direct contribution of tourism to 65 THE (RESTAURANT) CATERING CONTRACT IN TOURISM
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