DIRITTO DEL TURISMO

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: FRANCESCO PATERNITI

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course of lessons aims to provide students with the fundamental coordinates to orient themselves in the context of tourism legislation.

Preliminarily, some basic aspects of the legal system will be introduced (necessary for those who have never dealt with the study of legal subjects), to then move on to the illustration of the sources of law (internal and supranational) in the field of tourism and the presentation of the organization tourism public.

The course will deal with the topic of sustainable tourism, focusing further on the most relevant legal profiles of tourism businesses and tourism professions. Attention will also be paid to some types of tourism contracts, such as: reservations; the hotel contract and the hotelier's responsibility for things brought into the hotel; catering contracts; organized tourism contracts (tourist packages and related tourist services), with the related profile of damage from ruined holidays.

Course Structure

The course will take place on the basis of frontal lessons to which specific thematic seminars will be added.

Required Prerequisites

A basic knowledge of the Italian legal system would be desirable.

In any case, in order to facilitate the understanding and study of the subject for students who have never dealt with the study of legal subjects, the founding elements of the legal system will be covered in detail, starting from the concept of legal system itself, and then examining the main ones in depth. legal institutes useful for understanding the topics covered.

Attendance of Lessons

Not mandatory but recommended

Detailed Course Content

- Introductory notes on the legal system. Sources of domestic, community and international law.

- Tourism and sustainability

- Tourism businesses

- Tourism professions

- Contracts in the tourism sector

- Reservations

- The hotel contract

- The hotelier's responsibility for things brought into the hotel

- Organized tourism contracts: tourist packages and related tourist services. The damage from a ruined holiday

Textbook Information

R. Santagata, Diritto del turismo, V edizione, UTET, 2021 (limited to the Chapters I, II, III, IV, VII, VIII, IX, X, XIII, XVIII)

F. Leotta, Percorsi di turismo sostenibile. Da Lanzarote alla Sicilia, Pacini Giuridica, 2021.

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Legal system. Sources of lawF. Giuffré, I. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto pubblico e costituzionale, VI ed., Giappichelli, 2022
2Tourism and sustainabilityF. Leotta, Percorsi di turismo sostenibile. Da Lanzarote alla Sicilia, Pacini Giuridica, 2021
3The public organization of tourismR. Santagata, Diritto del turismo, V ed., Utet, 2021
4Tourism businessesR. Santagata, Diritto del turismo, V ed., Utet, 2021
5Tourism professionsR. Santagata, Diritto del turismo, V ed., Utet, 2021
6Tourist contractsR. Santagata, Diritto del turismo, V ed., Utet, 2021
7Tourism and responsibilityR. Santagata, Diritto del turismo, V ed., Utet, 2021

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

For attending students, the final evaluation will be based on a written test which may be followed by an oral test if you want to improve the outcome of the final test.

Non-attending students will only take the oral exam.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

The Tourism Code.

The hotelier's responsibility for things brought into the hotel.

Definition of tourist package.

Related tourist services.

Tourism businesses.

Tourism and sustainability.