Regarding packages where, for example, accommodation is combined with other tourist services, but which do not contain any carriage of passengers, the general criterion of a significant proportion of the value of the combination, applying to tourist services, should be replaced with the more specific criterion of at least 25 % of the value of the combination, in order to enhance legal certainty. It should also be recalled that other tourist services that are intrinsically part of travel services, such as other tourist services that are related to accommodation, are not considered to be travel services in their own right. Consequently, their inclusion cannot give rise to the creation of a package, even if their value represents at least 25 % of the total price. The recitals of Directive (EU) 2015/2302 contain examples of services that can be considered to be intrinsically part of travel services, such as access to certain on-site facilities at hotels or other types of accommodation. Furthermore, it should be recalled that other tourist services which are selected and purchased only after the performance of a travel service, such as accommodation, has started will not lead to the creation of a package, even if their value represents at least 25 % of the total price.
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