Tourism Law in Europe

12 between State Law and Regional Law immediately led to the intervention of the Constitutional Court, which declared a large part of the Code to be unconstitutional 20 . Therefore, the actual extent of the Tourism Code is now essentially limited to those rules that were not challenged by the Regions before the Constitutional Court and to the Code provisions relating to tourism professions, some general rules on tourism activities, the provisions on package travel contracts and the organisation of national tourism promotion. Despite its pompous name, the Tourism Code does not cover those areas which are, as we have seen, of the exclusive competence of State Law, namely general private law 21 . The Code, in its current structure, is divided into eight titles 22 and deals with tourism enterprises (artt. 4-5), tourism-related professions (artt. 6-7), accommodation facilities (artt. 8-17) and travel agencies (artt. 18-21). It also adresses, in a very general way, with various types of tourism (artt. 22-31), rental of tourist homes (artt. 52-53), tourist organisation, with particular reference to ENIT (artt. 54-65) and dispute resolution (artt. 66-69). As mentioned above, the Tourism Code also contains rules on package tour contracts (artt. 32-51- novies ) 23 , according to the provisions transposing Directive (EU) 2015/2302 of 25 November 2015 on package travel and linked tourist services, implemented in Italy by Legislative Decree no. 62 of 21 May 2018. 20 With sentence no. 80 of 5 April 2012, the Constitutional Court declared “the constitutional illegitimacy of art. 1, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree no. 79 of 23 May 2011 (Code of the State regulations on the subject of the organisation and tourism market - Codice della normativa statale in tema di ordinamento e mercato del turismo ), where it provides for the approval of art. 1, limited to the words “necessary for the unitary exercise of administrative functions" and "and other rules on the matter”, as well as articles 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, paragraphs 1, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, paragraphs 2, 21, 23, paragraphs 1, 2, 30, and paragraphs 1, 68 and 69 of annex 1 of Legislative Decree no. 79 of 2011”; for all of which, see Luca RIGHI, Il turismo nel tiro alla fune Stato-Regioni: la ridondanza dell’eccesso di delega dimezza il codice , in Rivista italiana di Diritto del turismo , 2012, p. 29. 21 On the Tourism Code, see Maurizio MALO, Primi dubbi sul codice del turismo , in Rivista italiana di Diritto del turismo , 2011, p 9. 22 Title I - General provisions (artt. 1-5); Title II - Profession and training in the tourism sector (artt. 6-7); Title III - The tourism market (artt. 8-17); Title IV - Travel and tourism agencies (artt. 18-21); Title V - Types of tourism products and related national circuits of excellence (artt. 22-31); Title VI - Contracts (artt. 32- 53); Title VII - Organisation (artt. 54-69). 23 See Francesco MORANDI, I contratti di viaggio alla prova del codice del turismo , in Rivista italiana di Diritto del turismo , 2012, p. 5.