Professor David Grant

David Grant is Professor Emeritus at Northumbria University and was Visiting Professor of Travel Law at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Whilst at Northumbria, he established the Travel Law Centre in 1992 and the International Travel Law Journal in 1994. He was editor in chief of the ITLJ until it was discontinued at the end of 2008. He is co-author of ‘Holiday Law’ (Sweet & Maxwell, 5th. ed. 2012) with Stephen Mason and also co-author of ‘Hotel Law’ (Northumbria Law Press, 2007) with Helen Douglas and Julia Sharpley.

He has written and lectured extensively on travel law. He is, or has been, a member of the IBA Leisure Industries Section, of TATLA, of IFTTA and of ATIPAC (the Air Travel Insolvency Protection Advisory Committee). Previously he was a member of the AUC (the Air Transport Users Committee) and Chair of Newcastle Airport Consultative Committee. He was also a lay member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee.

He launched the Travel Law Quarterly in 2009 and the online-only version in 2016.

• The Traveller’s Dilemma: Should I Cancel?

  23rd July 2020 by Professor David Grant

• Article 22 and the right of redress

  18th March 2019 by Professor David Grant

• Does lounge access give airline passengers extra protection?

  18th March 2019 by Professor David Grant

• Missed connections, bad weather and strikes. The perils of modern air travel

  2nd October 2018 by Professor David Grant

• Travel Agents Beware: Part 3

  31st July 2018 by Professor David Grant

• Travel Agents Beware: Part 2

  17th July 2018 by Professor David Grant

• Travel Agents Beware

  8th June 2018 by Professor David Grant

• Plus ca change

  16th May 2018 by Professor David Grant

• Last minute publication of the Package Travel Regulations

  2nd May 2018 by Professor David Grant

• Travel industry disadvantaged by Brexit bottleneck

  8th January 2018 by Professor David Grant

• Is Google a threat to the Tour Operating industry?

  18th December 2017 by Professor David Grant

• Monarch collapses. A right royal mess

  25th October 2017 by Professor David Grant

• Hurricane Irma and package holidays

  15th September 2017 by Professor David Grant

• The only certainties in life are death and taxes – but don’t forget airline fees and charges

  18th August 2017 by Professor David Grant

• Food poisoning on holiday – How concerned should the travel industry be?

  3rd May 2017 by Professor David Grant

• We will seat you and then beat you!

  21st April 2017 by Professor David Grant

• Consumer rights in Europe

  6th January 2017 by Professor David Grant

• Welcome to the new website for Travel Law Quarterly

  1st November 2016 by Professor David Grant