Principles and Cases of Tourism Law

Author: Posti
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is suitable as a textbook for tourism major university students. The courses they will study may involve laws related to the tourism service industry, including hotel management, food safety, package holidays, and travel agencies. Considering that tourism students may have limited knowledge of law, this book provides extensive introductory materials on the legal systems of England and Scotland in Chapter 1. The content of this book not only covers common laws in the tourism service industry, such as contracts, agency, and torts (see Chapter 2), forms of business organization (Chapter 3), product liability (Chapter 4), criminal liability (Chapter 5), employment relationships (Chapter 6), discrimination issues (Chapter 7), and planning and environmental law (Chapter 8), but also includes laws specific to the tourism service industry, such as the obligations, responsibilities, and rights of hotel operators (Chapter 9), food safety (Chapter 10), alcohol licensing (Chapter 11), and package holidays (Chapter 12). Due to space limitations, this book does not cover laws such as property law. It is recommended that readers refer to relevant articles on the subject. It is hoped that this book will also benefit those working in the tourism service industry. This book is also suitable as a textbook for southern and northern England, with the differences between English and Scottish laws explained throughout the book. All the authors of this book are Scottish legal scholars and practicing lawyers. For them, writing a book primarily based on English law was an interesting experience. The book cites as many cases as possible that have occurred in the tourism service industry to explain general legal principles regarding contracts, torts, employment relationships, and planning law. The laws included in this book were enacted before December 31, 1997. Readers should note that there have been many constructive developments in British law that affect the tourism service industry in various ways. These developments include legislative acts in Scotland and Wales, as well as legislation to transpose the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law. For fundamental legislative developments, even bills being passed by Parliament at the time of writing this book, if they may have some impact on the tourism service industry, the book will mention relevant content. Recently, legislation on freedom of information is expected to be introduced in the UK, which will also affect the tourism service industry, such as the government previously controlling information on food safety. The book covers civil law aspects such as contracts, torts, and agency; commercial law aspects such as forms of business organization; economic law aspects such as consumer protection, labor employment, and environmental planning; and administrative law aspects such as administrative review and litigation.