The article examines the contract on providing a travel package as a separate type of a contract. The authors highlight its essential features in more detail going into the definition of the object of the contract. The authors give their own definition of a travel package as a service which has a comprehensive character. The authors single out and substantiate the necessity to minimize the number of services to be included into the travel package. The article presents different points of view on the issue studied, as well as the authors’ point of view on how to define the object of the contract. The necessity of changing the content of Article 1 and Article 10 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation “On the basics of tourist activities in the Russian Federation”. In particular, it is proposed to legalize the general concept of “a travel package”.

law, the subject of the contract, tourist, a travel package, tourist activities, tour operator, contract on providing a travel package

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