Legislation and Ethics in Travel and Tourism Sector

Legislation and Ethics
in
Travel and Tourism
Sector

INTRODUCTION
Legislations are the laws that can be enacted by any governing body whether state, local
or central government. They have been implemented with the purpose to regulate, grant, declare,
sanction, authorise etc. in regards to various motives. While ethics are the moral philosophy of
the businesses that helps them to differentiate between right and wrong conduct. Various
legislations are implemented in travel and tourism sector to regulate and monitor that sector. In
this report legal and regulatory framework that has been implemented by legal system, sources of
laws and court system are taken in context of travel and tourism. These are considered which has
influence on the business. Also the laws in relation to sea, air and transport laws, impact of
health, safety, security legislation on travel and tourism are also considered while preparing the
report. Various legislations related to CSR, equality, consumer protection are briefly explained
with the aim to understand the influence of such legislation on business of travel and tourism.
TASK 1
Covered in Leaflet
TASK 2
AC2.1 :
To,
Mr Andrew,
MY travel , UK
In order to protect the health and safety needs of the tourist and the people working in the
industry various legislations has been imposed. In UK, Health and Safety at Work Act has been
imposed which focusses on providing protection to the workers engaging in healthy and safety
sector as all the visitors are to be catered by the employees (Van Hoof and Pennings, 2018).
This act is directed by the health and safety commission which provides various guidelines that
are to be followed by all the service provider. The legislations that are associated with health,
safety and security which has impact on the MY travel are given below:
 Health, Safety at Work Act, 1974: This act is basically for the employer in travel and
tourism sector which compels them to provide a safer and healthy environment to their
employees. It focuses on the training which is to be provided to the employees which is