Kent Solicitors

Your tour operator is clearly responsible in contract for the events it organises.

If you book an independent contractor at your resort (even via the tour operator) the tour operator will not necessarily be liable in contract for any injury that you may sustain. In negligence, he may well owe you a duty of care, but if he has taken all reasonable precautions to prevent you from suffering injury, then he will have satisfied this duty of care.

In a recent case, a holidaymaker booked a toboggan run with an independent contractor at the resort but the tour operators representatives gave appropriate warnings as to what should be done at the end of the run. This was held to be sufficient.

# posted by michael @ 08:00