It is a horror scenario for vacationers: while they linger in the sunny vacation home, the tour operator goes bankrupt. Suddenly the return flights are no longer available, vacationers are stuck in the hotels. This happened to hundreds of thousands only in the recent past - after the bankruptcy of the British tour operator Thomas Cook in autumn 2019. In addition, it seemed unclear whether customers would be fully reimbursed for the costs of trips they had already booked. The security payments were not sufficient. Now package holidaymakers are to be better protected from the bankruptcies of the organizers.