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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Postgraduate
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Units of Credit: 8
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Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740 or 9230
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Description
This course examines the regulation of domestic and international tourism and analyses key current issues arising in the subject area. It aims to provide students with the understanding and insights required to provide specialised legal and policy advice to the many stakeholders in tourism including governments, investors, developers, operators, marketers, special interest groups, local communities and tourists themselves.
LLM Specialisations
Corporate and Commercial Law; Corporate, Commercial and Taxation Law.
Recommended Prior Knowledge
None
Course Objectives
- To examine the law regulating the tourism industry and particularly the law and policy governing travel agency, passenger transport, traveller accommodation, activities and attractions
- In this examination to apply principles from the many areas of law involved to an increased knowledge of the requirements of this industry gained from reading, seminars and shared experiences
- To consider and discuss the function and effectiveness of the law regulating tourism having regard for the underlying commercial and policy considerations
- To analyse key current issues arising in the subject areas and the relevant legal, policy and strategic considerations.
- Research Paper: To research and write an academic paper addressing a tourism law topic of your choice (selected in consultation with the course co-ordinator, having regard for your particular career ambitions and interests)
Main Topics
This course will examine the regulation of domestic and international tourism and analyse key current issues arising in the subject area. Topics will be covered in varying detail depending upon their commercial and social importance, the interests of the class and availability of materials. The Program is intended as a guide and will not necessarily be adhered to rigidly. Topics covered will include:
- Travel Packaging and Distribution: The regulation of the assembly, packaging and distribution of tourism products including travel agency, tour operation, travel web sites, consumer protection, damages for disappointment, the EC Directive on Package Holidays and relevant statutes and case law
- Traveller Accommodation: The common innkeepers' doctrine and the relevant statutes, conventions and case law covering the main types of accommodation and their title, management and operating arrangements including food and beverage
- Passenger Transport: The common carriers' doctrine and the relevant statutes, conventions and case law covering transport by road, rail, sea and air including trade, competition, consumer, terrorism and related issues
- Activities and Attractions: The responsibility of proprietors of activities and attractions at common law and under relevant statutes and conventions including adventure tourism, ecotourism, World Heritage, gaming and related compliance and risk management issues
Assessment
| Class participation |
Preparation and engagement in class |
10% |
| Class test |
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10% |
| Research essay |
7,000 - 8,000 words |
80% |
Course Texts
Prescribed
Atherton TC & TA, Tourism, Travel & Hospitality Law, LBC Information Services, Sydney 1998 Resources
Further readings and reference materials will be made available during the course in hard and soft copy via the web.
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