Dr. Michael Wukoschitz

- Attorney at Law (in Austria) since 1996
- Assistant Director of POLYTOURS Travel Agency 1988-1998
- President of International Forum of Travel and Tourism Advocates (IFTTA) 2008-2016
- Austria Correspondent of the travel law journal “ReiseRecht aktuell“
PRACTICE AREAS:
- Travel- and Tourism Law
- Aviation Law
- Accommodation Law
- IP-Law
- Copyright Law
- Unfair Trade Practices
- Advertisement
- Media Law
- Life Sciences
- International Purchase of Goods
- Trade Law
- Dispute Resolution
LANGUAGES:
- German
- English
Diverse TEACHING and LECTURING activities, inter alia with Austrian Media Academy, University of Girona (European Master Tourism Management), MCI Management Centre Innsbruck (Master Program Entrepreneurship & Tourism), FH Joanneum Bad Gleichenberg (Master Program International Hospitality & Spa Management), University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication Vienna (FH Wien – Bachelor`s Program Tourism & Hospitality Management), TISC Tourism International Scientific Conference, Karlovy Vary Lawyers’ Days, ERA Academy of European Law, European Tourism Forum and with various intl. associations and organisations including UNWTO, DACH and IFTTA.
MEMBERSHIPS:
- Vienna Bar Association
- Viennese Judicial Association (WJG)
- European Lawyers Association (DACH)
- German Bar Association (DAV)
- German Association for Travel Law (DGfR)
- Intl Forum of Travel & Tourism Advocates (IFTTA)
- Intl Travel Law Network (ITLN)
- European Air Law Association (EALA)
- Austrian Association for Industrial Property and Copyright Law (ÖV)
- Intl Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
- Intl League of Competition Law (LIDC)
- Working Group of Publishing House Counsels (AGVJ)
- European Law Institute (ELI)
- Austrian League for Human Rights
RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH:
- Competition Issues in Air Ticket Sales through Global Distribution Systems – Distribution Cost Charge and Location Dependant Ticket Prices: Analysis of an Austrian Supreme Court Decision (in Torres, Competition Law in Tourism, ISBN: 978-989-9066-02-1)
- Tour Organisers and Suppliers: Partner or Opponents in the Crisis? (in Torres/Melgosa Arcos, The Legal Impacts of Covid-19 in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, ISBN: 978-989-9066-03-8)
- Air Passenger Rights in a Maze between Dogmatics and Casuistics (RRa 2021, 51)
- Commentary on Articles 3 (defintions) and 14 (price reduction and compensation for damages) of Directive (EU) 2015/2302, in Torres ea (Editors), Collective Commentary about the New Package Travel Directive [2020]
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