TOURISM LEGISLATION

The course aims to provide the students with the fundamental coordinates in the vast panorama of tourism legislation.

Preliminarily, basic aspects of legal systems will be introduced (for those students who have never dealt with the study of legal matters), then to illustrate the (domestic and supranational) legal sources on tourism and the public organization of tourism.

The first lessons will be dedicated to the topic of sustainable tourism, starting from the general indications on sustainability dictated by the United Nations (from the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment of 1972 to the  Brundtland Report, from Declarations and Programs of Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to the New York Resolution of 2015), to deepen the documents approved by the World Tourism Organization (the Charter of Lanzarote of 1995, the Code of ethics of tourism of 1999, the Program "One Planet - Sustainable Tourism" of 2014). We will mention some initiatives of the E.U. in support of sustainable tourism (mostly by the Commission in favor of the Regions; the recent Cooperation Protocol between the European Parliament and UNWTO; the Network of European Regions for Sustainable and Competitive Tourism; Ecolabel for tourist services) and of Italy (in the National Strategy for Sustainable Development). This theme will be completed with a specific mention of Sicilian examples of sustainable tourism.

Then, the legislation on tourism companies and tourism professions will be analyzed in depth.

Focusing on some types of touristic contracts, we will specifically examined: reservations; the hotel contract and the responsibility of the hotelier for the things brought to the hotel; restaurant contracts; organized tourism contracts, with the related topic of the damage for ruined holiday.

Through a very practical approach to the topics (with numerous examples and the use of forms, standard contract, etc., in use), it will aim to develop the concrete application of legal rules to enable students, Touristic Operators in training, to carry out their work properly in the future.

During lectures, the discussion of each topic of the program will be preceded by an introduction of the legal concepts necessary to understand the subject of the discussion and will be accompanied by numerous practical examples and, if possible, by the consultation of institutional websites (www.normattiva.it; www2.unwto.org; ...), where it is possible to find texts, data and information useful for students.

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- The legal order. The sources of Italian, EU and International Law.

- Tourism and sustainability

- Examples of sustainable tourism in the Sicilian legislation

- Tourism enterprises

- Tourism professions

- Contracts in the touristic field

- Reservations

- Hotel contract            

- The liability of the hotelier for the things brought to the hotel            

- Organized tourism contracts. The damage for ruined vacation.

F. Leotta, Percorsi di turismo sostenibile. Da Lanzarote alla Sicilia, Pacini Giuridica, 2021.

R. Santagata, Diritto del turismo, V edizione, UTET, 2021.

Oral exam. 

Only for attending students, an on-going exam could be agreed.