The Weekly Roundup: The August Edition

Everyone seems to be on holiday. This is of course cheery news for travel practitioners, who depend on people taking holidays as the foundation for our work, and who are, therefore, the Forgotten Victims of the Covid pandemic. The work of the courts continues, of course, with another in the series of costs cases we've been reporting on recently; and at least one government department has also been doing a bit of governing in the strange interregnum we find ourselves in.

New Guidance on the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018

When the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 replaced the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992 on 1^st July 2018, they were intended to, and did, capture many more holidays than the old Regulations; the new Regulations introduced the concept of 'linked travel arrangements' and, at a stroke, did away with the old arguments around what was, or wasn't, a