INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM, TRAVEL AND HOSPITALITY LAW do we learn from this regulation? We recognize that the explicit legal extension of package travel law on those services has just been necessary because host school stays do not constitute a package from a European perspective. This regulation would be redundant if host school stays were intrinsically travel services. There wouldn´t be any need for special rules. We can therefore conclude that contrary to these exceptions, other educational stays abroad are not covered by package travel law. The same applies to the voluntary possibility of the legal extension of package travel law to shorter stays and internship. For these, the German legislator has introduced the right to voluntarily agree on package travel law, see Section 651u (1) sentence 2 BGB. By the way: This extension of package travel law was possible despite the full harmonisation of the new Package Travel Directive, as national legislators are allowed to implement national exceptions for areas not covered by the fully harmonised directive – such as for host school stays, which are not regulated in the Package Travel Directive. 5.1.5. Reverse argument Another nice “reverse” argument: In a language course, the participation and the admission to the service depends on personal qualification and individual skills. Package travel law with its typical right to transfer the contract to a substitute participant is therefore also for this reason inappropriate for language travel, for Germany see Section 651e BGB. 5.1.6. Conclusion For the reasons stated, we should not define language courses as a tourist service and thus, not as a travel service. 5.2. Accommodation Let us move on to the accommodation provided by language travel providers. The Package Travel Directive states in Recital (17) as follows: ”Accommodation for residential purposes, including for long-term language courses, should not be considered as accommodation within the meaning of this Directive.” Thus, accommodation is a travel service unless it is “for residential purposes”. But in which cases accommodation is “for residential” an in which cases “for travel” purposes? The Package Travel Directive gives us no legal definition, only
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