One of the aims of the Package Travel Directive is to ensure that, in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy on the part of the travel organiser, the repatriation of the consumer and the refunding of the money paid over are guaranteed.

1. When a disabled person or person with reduced mobility arrives at an airport for travel by air, the managing body of the airport shall be responsible for ensuring the provision of the assistance specified in Annex I in such a way that the person is able to take the flight for which he or she holds a reservation, provided that the notification of the person's particular needs for such assistance has been made to the air carrier or its agent or the tour operator concerned at least 48 hours before the published time of departure of the flight. This notification shall also cover a return flight, if the outward flight and the return flight ...[+++] have been contracted with the same air carrier.

5. When a disabled person or person with reduced mobility transits through an airport to which this Regulation applies, or is transferred by an air carrier or a tour operator from the flight for which he or she holds a reservation to another flight, the managing body shall be responsible for ensuring the provision of the assistance specified in Annex I in such a way that the person is able to take the flight for which he or she holds a reservation.

‘tour operator’ means, with the exception of an air carrier, an organiser or retailer within the meaning of Article 2(2) and (3) of Directive 90/314/EEC;

(d) "tour operator" means, with the exception of an air carrier, an organiser within the meaning of Article 2, point 2, of Council Directive 90/314/EEC of 13 June 1990 on package travel, package holidays and package tours(6);

One topic of concern among tourism operators is apparently that Council Directive 90/314/EEC of 13 June 1990 on package travel, package holidays and package tours [9] holds the tour operator responsible for the safety of its customers, whereas legal responsibility for fire safety in hotels is not established at Community level, resulting in many different situations which it is left to the tour operator to assess.