Special Grounds for Terminating the Contract on Rendering Tourist Services as a Type of the Service Contract

Review. The article is devoted to the problems of legal regulation of the termination of the contract on rendering tourist services. The author analyzes legislative provisions concerning tourism activities that envisage special grounds for terminating such a contract, and the procedure and consequences of terminating the contract on rendering tourist services on such grounds. In order to eliminate the revealed contradictions between the norms of a special law and general provisions of the civil law, the author puts forward a proposal to eliminate from the list the grounds describing significant change of circumstances contained in a special law that in their nature do not meet the criteria of such change and to convert this list from a closed list into an open one. The author has revealed the legal gap in regulation of the issues being considered because there are no precise criteria the document must meet in order to confirm the existence of the circumstances threatening the life, health and property of a tourist in the host country (place) and to provide grounds for terminating a contract using a special procedure. Therefore, the author proposed to legalize the status of such documents and to give such status to notifications publicized by authorized agencies.

tourism, contract, tourist services, termination, legal process, visa, illness, threat to security, grounds, consequences, recommendations of authorized agencies

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