1.This Directive applies to packages offered for sale or sold by traders to travellers and to specific information requirements applicable to certain situations not leading to the creation of a package. It also applies to the right of organisers to a refund from travel service providers in cases of cancellation or non-provision of a service forming part of a travel package.
2.This Directive does not apply to:
packages covering a period of less than 24 hours unless overnight accommodation is included;
packages offered occasionally and on a not-for-profit basis and only to a limited group of travellers;
packages purchased on the basis of a general agreement for the arrangement of business travel between a trader and another natural or legal person who is acting for purposes relating to his trade, business, craft or profession.
3.This Directive does not affect national general contract law such as the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract, insofar as general contract law aspects are not regulated in this Directive.