traveller accommodation

Traveller Accommodation Statistics

Annual Survey of Traveller Accommodation

‘tourist accommodation services’ means the provision, for a fee, of sheltered overnight accommodation in rooms, including at least a bed, and of private or shared sanitary facilities, offered to tourists, travellers and lodgers.

Where it is impossible to ensure the traveller's timely return to the place of departure because of unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances, the organiser should bear the cost of the travellers' necessary accommodation for a period not exceeding three nights per traveller, unless longer periods are provided for in existing or future Union passenger rights legislation.

Since there is less need to protect travellers in cases of short-term trips, and in order to avoid an unnecessary burden for traders, trips lasting less than 24 hours which do not include accommodation, as well as packages or linked travel arrangements offered or facilitated occasionally and on a not-for-profit basis and only to a limited group of travellers, should be excluded from the scope of this Directive.

22. Stresses the importance of a sustainable and responsible European tourism sector that promotes the competitiveness of its companies; highlights the constant rise in the number of travellers, and calls for the development of more sustainable and energy-efficient forms of transport and accommodation with a view to creating environmentally, socially and economically sustainable destinations, bearing in mind that environmental sustainability also encompasses the preservation of local cultures and traditions, the preservation and enhancement of the heritage, the fostering of best ...[+++] practices, and efforts to seek a form of tourism that satisfies and benefits both those who travel and the local community at the destination; urges the Commission to accelerate the implementation of the Nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH) initiative aimed at making hotels self-sustaining and energy-efficient;