Abstract

Legal liability of the tour operators on tourist contracts

Author(s): Xuemin Zhong

With the increasing development of the social economy and the improvement of people's living quality, tourism has become an important way for people to relax themselves and enjoy their leisure time. Studying legal liability of the tour operators, on one hand, can protect the travel consumers' legitimate rights. On the other hand, it can promote the resolution of travel disputes and the healthy development of the whole tourism industry in the long run. This paper mainly studies on the four aspects of the legal liability: the tour operator's contracting negligence liability, the flaw warranty liability and the liability of compensation for mental injury of default as well as the issues about which the third person needs to bear liability for involved in the tourism contract.