ECC-Net: Travel App Pre-holiday newsflash
Leaving onholidays? Take the ECC-Net: Travel App with you! So you have your sunscreen, your sunglasses, and your travel documents are ready? Everything isOK for you to start your dream holidays?Be preparedand consider downloading thisuseful travel application made especially for you by the of European Consumer Centres (ECC-Net). Holidays are for fun and relaxation, right? You certainly don’t want to experience any awkward situation. Thanks to the new ECC-Net: Travel App you now have the perfect tool to stay cool at all times, to learn about your consumer rightsand to express them in any European language*. Let's see how this new App can help you. Imagine you're just off the plane in Rome and you're arguing with the rental car officer because your lovely Fiat Panda doesn't come with the airconditioning you ordered online. Keep cool and check the new ECC-Net: Travel App to know exactly what your rights are. In a matter of seconds, you can face your tormentor in Italian to express your rights in a friendly but firm way. Did you ever arrive at the reception desk of a lovelybeach hotel to discover that yourdouble room with terrace overlooking the sea was no longer available due to "an unfortunate overbooking"? As of now, the ECC-Net: Travel App instantly gives you all necessary legal information in your own language and comes up with the best possible arguments to handle this specific situation. In short, the new ECC-Net: Travel App is a pocket version of an all-in-one legal counsellor and personal interpreter. It will support you in almost any awkward situation that might arise when you're on holidays in Europe. As from now, help is at hand. You can first discover your consumer rights in specific situationsbut also express them easily and confidently, thanks to the new ECC-Net: Travel App. It's easy to download, easy to use, it works offline and it's free! So download it now, before going on holidays. Good to know: the new "Help" section offers relevant phone numbers and contacts details of every local European Consumer Centre as well as local embassies for any emergency.
The ECC-Net: Travel app is available for mobile devices with iOS, Android and Microsoft Windows operating systems and it can be downloaded in the Apple app store (for iOS), in the Google Playstore (for Android) and in the Windows Apps+GamesStore (for Windows Phone). The application works offline to avoid roaming fees.
The App is also downloadable through this QR-Code
The ECC-Net: Travel App is a joint project supported by the European Consumer Centres Network (ECC-Net).There is a European Consumer Centre in every EU member state as well as in Norway and Iceland offering free consumer help and advice. The ECC-Net: Travel applicationis an initiative of the whole network. *Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish. Press contact: European Consumer Centre Cyprus Phone: +357 22 867177 / ecccyprus@mcit.gov.cy