The Assembly,
Aware that tourism is ever more frequently crossing national frontiers and international travel for business or study is becoming increasingly common ;
Considering, therefore, that it is desirable that hotel-keepers' liability to their clients and the hotel-keeper's contract should be subject to standard rules in the various countries ;
Recalling that the European Convention on the Liability of Hotel-Keepers concerning the property of their guests came into force in 1967 and has been ratified by eight member states of the Council of Europe ;
Considering that the draft Convention on the Hotel-Keeper's Contract, prepared by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) in Rome, is designed to harmonise practically all civil law relationships between hotel-keepers and their clients,
Recommends that the Committee of Ministers invite the governments of the member states to give their full support to the work being undertaken in Unidroit relating to an international convention on the hotel-keeper's contract and take the necessary steps to ensure that an international diplomatic conference to settle this convention should be convened at an early date.