Legislation and Ethics in Travel and Tourism Sector Assignment - (Doc)
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Legislation and Ethics inTravel and Tourism Sector
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................31.1 Explaining legal and regulatory framework in travel and tourism sector.............................31.2 Discussing sea, air and surface laws of UK..........................................................................3explanation of legal and regulatory framework of travel and tourism industry..........................4surface, sea and transport laws that are related to carriage of passengers of UK......................4TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................62.1 Impacts of principles of health, safety and security legislation on travel and tourism sector.....................................................................................................................................................62.2 Analysing the laws that relates to equality ...........................................................................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................83.1 Contract Legisaltion In travel and tourism sector.................................................................83.2 Explaining consumer protection legislation..........................................................................8TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................114.1 Analysing the ethical dilemma faced travel and tourism industry......................................114.2 Analysing the corporate social responsibility of TUI.........................................................12CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
INTRODUCTIONLegislation is the collective laws and regulations within which the activities are to beconducted. Ethics are the moral principles and values that regulate someone's behaviour andpersonality (Bianchi and Stephenson, 2018). Travel and tourism industry is highly regulated byvarious laws and rules that affects the functioning and operations of hospitality firms. Thepresent report is going to discuss the legal and regulatory framework of travel and tourismindustry, impacts of health, safety and security legislation. Consumer protection legislation incontext of travel and tourism industry will be covered in this assignment along with the ethicaldilemma faced by this industry.
TASK 11.1 Explaining legal and regulatory framework in travel and tourism sector1.2 Discussing sea, air and surface laws of UK(Enclosed in leaflet)Legislation and Ethics in Travel and Tourism Sectorexplanation of legal and regulatoryframework of travel and tourismindustry surface, sea and transport laws thatare related to carriage ofpassengers of UKLegislation provides the structure withinorganisations in this has to operate itself.Regulatory frameworks provides a set of rulesthat governs the process of decision makingand functioning of these organisations. Theindustry includes transport organisations,hotels, input suppliers, consumers, travellersetc. Therefore to protect the interest of thesestakeholders, a controlled environment iscreated by authorities of England & Wales toachieve the uniformity in operations across theindustry. Different regulaions that affects theindustry are given below:Association of British Travel Agents(ABTA) : It is a trade association that governstravel agencies and tour operators in the UnitedKingdom. It has set rules and regulations forprotecting the interests of travellers. Forexample, purchasing a holiday package frommember of ABTA, travellers are protected interms of their holidays, money under thescheme of financial protection.A passenger can be described as a person thatis being carried by a particular carrier that isby ship, airways, buses. The industry isregulated by different laws that are related toprotection of passengers while travellingthrough a particular way. These arementioned below:Surface law : International Carriage ofPassenger by Road Act, 1979 is thelegislation that governs and regulates thesurface law in the country. It provides theprovisions that are formulated for theprotection of passengers. The rights andremedies are provided by this act in casewhere passengers suffers damages and howcan they claim the same from theorganisations providing carriage facilities.The carriage of luggage and problems relatedto damages are governed by Carriage byRailway Act, 1972. The move of governmentof privatising the railway sector was focussedon developing and integrating the activities of
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