AGENCIJSKI UGOVOR O HOTELSKIM USLUGAMA: UGOVORNA ODGOVORNOST UGOSTITELJA U HRVATSKOJ, EUROPSKOJ I MEĐUNARODNOJ POSLOVNOJ PRAKSI.

Agency contract on hotel services is sui generis a contract, regulated through business practices (lex mercatoria): 1) in Croatian law- Particular usages in catering (1995), 2) in European law - Code of Conduct ECTAA-HOTREC (1996) and 3) in international law - Code of Practice IH&RAUFTAA (1999). The subject of the paper is the analysis of contractual liability of caterers for breach of agency contracts on hotel services in Croatian, European and international business practice. Caterers are liable for damage to property and non-proprietary damage deriving from the breach of contractual obligations to double subjectivity - both tourist agency and its guests (individual or group). The results of the research are the answers to set theoretic and practical issues as well as the synthesis od solutions on every liability of caterers especially through the analysis of codification of Croatian, European and international business practice. As a conclusion, Croatian business practice has embodied all essential solutions of European and international business practice regarding contractual liability of caterers in agency contract on hotel services with some specific features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]