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 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)
- Austrian League for Human Rights
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
- 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 sec. 2 and 11 to15 PRG, in Bammer (Editor), Package Travel Act [2019] (jointly with Katharina Scherhaufer)
- further Publications