Law in Tourism

  • Credits: 4
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 4C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 1
  • Faculty of Commerce

Teachers

Included in study programs

Tourism Management

Teaching results

A graduate will get skills about legal regulation of tourism law/holiday law on the international, European, and national (Slovakian) level. After a successful graduation, the graduate will get knowledge and ability to be oriented in relevant legislation that focuses on travel business in the Slovak republic, including related public (e.g., administrative law, collective labor law, financial law etc.) and private (commercial law, consumer law, intellectual property law tec.) Slovakian law.
Knowledge and understanding:
Mastering the basics of legal regulation of various forms of tourism covered by many international, European, and domestic (Slovakian) law.
Practical skills:
An ability to enter various types of contracts in tourism. Claim for their rights as a consumer or provider of a tourism duty. Skill to work with effective legal regulation.
Competence:
An ability to apply legal regulation in praxis.

Indicative content

Introduction to the Law in Tourism/Tourism Law/Holiday Law; International and European sources of Law in Tourism; Constitutional basis and others national sources of Law in Tourism; Law in Tourism and relations with Civic Law; Law in Tourism and relations with Commercial Law and Administrative Law; Consumer contracts and protection of consumer rights; Most often used types of contracts relates with tourism; Law in Tourism and relations with Financial Law; Law in Tourism and relations with Labour Law; Protection of consumer’s rights in airway, railway, bus and boat transfer; Civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution in Law in Tourism; Support of Slovakian tourism.

Support literature

MAGUROVÁ, H. a kol.: Základy práva v cestovnom ruchu pre ekonómov, Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2016, 184 p. ISBN 978-80-8168-491-3
HAVLÍČKOVÁ K., KRÁLOVÁ R.: Cestovní právo, Praha: C.H.Beck, 2015, 508 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-267-0
NOVACKÁ, Ľ. a kol.: Cestovný ruch a Európska únia, Bratislava: Sprint, 2010, 160 s. ISBN 978-80-89393-26
NOVACKÁ, Ľ. a kol.: Súčasnosť cestovného ruchu v trajektórii budúcnosti, Zlín: Radim Bačuvčík - VeRBuM, 2020, 370 s. ISBN 978-80-88356-05-9
JURČOVÁ M., DOBROVODSKÝ R., NEVOLNÁ Z., OLŠOVSKÁ A.: Právo cestovného ruchu, Bratislava: C.H.Beck, 2014, 360 s. ISBN 978-80-89603-27-5
PETRÁŠ, R.: Právo a cestovní ruch, Praha: Univerzita J. A. Komenského Praha, 2013, 224 s. ISBN 978-80-7452-032-7
GRANT, D., MASON, S., BUNCE, S.: Holiday Law: The Law relating to Travel and Tourism, Sweet & Maxwell, 2018, 672 p. ISBN 978-0414065888
TAEYMANS, M. (ed.): Essential Texts on European Tourism Law, Gompel&Svacina, 2019, 440 p. ISBN 978-9463711715

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the Law in Tourism/Tourism Law/Holiday Law 2. International and European sources of Law in Tourism 3. Constitutional basis and others national sources of Law in Tourism 4. Law in Tourism and relations with Civic Law 5. Law in Tourism and relations with Commercial Law and Administrative Law 6. Consumer contracts and protection of consumer rights 7. Most often used types of contracts relates with tourism 8. Law in Tourism and relations with Financial Law 9. Law in Tourism and relations with Labour Law 10. Protection of consumer’s rights in airway, railway, bus, and boat transfer 11. Civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution in Law in Tourism 12. Support of Slovakian tourism 13. Digital platforms and Slovakian tourism

Requirements to complete the course

10 % active participations in seminars
10 % project presentation (presentation of semestral theses)
20 % semestral written test
60 % final written test

Student workload

Study load: 104
Participation in seminars: 13
Preparation for seminars: 13
Preparation for project presentation (presentation of semestral theses): 19
Preparation for semestral written test: 19
Preparation for final written test: 40

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 16.01.2022