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Law, Regulation and Ethics in the Travel and Tourism Sector

   

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Legislation and Ethics in theTravel and Tourism Sector
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1(A) Explain the legal and regulatory framework of the travel and tourism sector......................1(B)Discuss surface, sea and air transport law in relation to the carriage of passengers withinthe legal and regulatory framework.............................................................................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4(A) Evaluate the impacts of the principles of health, safety and security legislation in ElegantHotel............................................................................................................................................4(B) Analyse the Equality legislation in the English Legal System, which the organisation mustbe aware of when recruiting and managing employees of the Elegant Hotel.............................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6(A) Explain the general features of the following legislation giving examples of contract lawin the Travel and Tourism sector.................................................................................................6(B) Explain consumer protection legislation in relation to travel and tourism customers..........7TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7(A) Analyse ethical dilemmas faced by the travel and tourism sector........................................7(B) Analyse their Corporate Social Responsibility.....................................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION Legislation plays a very crucial and significant role in managing business and itsoperations to a greater extent. Especially in travel and tourism sector, the legal framework isrequired to be managed in an effective manner to avoid future conflicts. The proper handling ofthese operations and action plans is to be taken in consideration by a firm to functionappropriately. This will help the organisation to carry out the businesses related to travel andtourism industry in an effective manner. For the report, Elegant Hotel has chosen i.e. hospitalityfirm working in travel and tourism sector. The report will cover the legal and regulatory framework that is being followed withinEnglish legal system with a proper classification of laws and court system. Laws regulatingtravel and tourism sector will be evaluated and the role of regulatory bodies working over will beanalysed. Besides this, health, safety and security measures are discussed within the report withdifferent types of contract laws applicable in travel and tourism sector. Also, the ethicaldilemmas and CSR of a corporate will be assessed.TASK 1(A) Explain the legal and regulatory framework of the travel and tourism sectorThe legal and regulatory framework of travel and tourism sector falls under the Englishlegal system that taken in consideration by the firm. The English legal system consist of manyclassification and hierarchical structures that impacts the business operations and actions to agreater extent (Labonté and et. al., 2018). This framework will look after the proper managementof all the laws and regulations regarding travel and tourism sector. Besides this, it will seethrough the following of various legislations that developed and followed. The framework ofEnglish legal system is as follows: 1
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Illustration 1: English Legal systemSource: English Law, 2018The laws in this structure classified on two basis, Civil and Criminal. The civil laws arethe one which are not much severe and include the matters like forgery, deceit, partnershipissues, failure in following of laws etc. On the other hand, the criminal cases includes the well-being of people and consist of matters like murder, theft, harassment etc. the court structureinvolves the various hierarchical legal structure such as criminal and civil courts comprisesmagistrates and county court (Guttentag, 2015). Both laws have a court of appeal that hears andhandle all sort of factors and issues related to civil and criminal issues. If the issue sorted bythem, then all the matters will finally heard and managed by the Supreme Court. Besides this, there are various sources of laws that regulate travel and tourism sector.Some of the major sources are as follows:Constitutions: This comprises of the laws and the legal measures that pre discussed andpre-determined in order to carry out different operations and action plans. It will help inproviding the individual liberties that helps the firm to manage the travel and tourismoperations.Statutes: This comprises of federal, state and local legislation which will help in creatingthe proper laws and regulation related to travel and tourism industry and will look aftertheir effective implementation with proper followings.2
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