No prerequisites

This English-language course provides an overview of the main rules governing the activity of tourist companies with a focus on ensuring socially and environmentally sustainable practices. It also emphasizes the important role of private autonomy and ethical business practices — especially corporate social responsibility — in fostering sustainable tourism.

Instructional goals

a) Knowledge and understanding: The course aims at providing students with a basic and comprehensive knowledge of the main institutions and rules of company law, with particular reference to tourist companies, corporate social responsibility and sustainable tourism. This knowledge and understanding will be developed through frontal lectures, problem-based interactive learning, practice exercises, group work and team work, role playing and simulations.

During the course the students will be encouraged to analyze and actively discuss cases and materials.

b) Applying knowledge and understanding: by the end of the course the students are expected to be able to examine and discuss cases and materials, applying the basic rules and principles of sustainability and law for tourist companies. To this end, practical cases will be submitted to the students and interaction and active participation in class will be fostered.

c) Making judgments: by the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to collect and process data and information in order to autonomously identify and provide solutions to practical cases brought to their attention, thus demonstrating the acquisition of an aptitude for problem solving.

d) Communication skills: through interaction and active participation in lectures, at the end of the course the student will have acquired the ability to use the technical-legal language of the law for tourist companies, developing communication skills that will be indispensable in the professional career.

e) Learning skills: the student will acquire the ability to understand and interpret regulatory and case-law developments in the field of tourism company law and to explore, also autonomously, the topics addressed in the course.

The teaching method is developed on various levels: a) during the lecture, through the involvement of the student with the presentation of cases in order to stimulate a debate; b) at the end of the lecture, leaving room for questions; c) during the reception by clarifying the most problematic aspects of the topics with single students.

Oral exam.

The final assessment will primarily take into account the degree of understanding of the required institutes and the ability to make connections between the norms; it will also take into account the expository abilities demonstrated during the examination.

"Lo Studente, disabile e/o con DSA, che intende usufruire di un intervento individualizzato per lo svolgimento della prova d’esame deve contattare l'ufficio Integrazione Disabili dell'Università del Salento all'indirizzo paola.martino@unisalento.it"

See the following link: 

https://www.dse.unisalento.it/guida-alla-didattica/calendario-esam

Student reception is by appointment (please write to paolo.tullio@unisalento.it).

• Introduction to tourist companies and sustainable tourism.
• Sources of tourism law: national, European and international law; customary law.
• Private autonomy: main business forms in tourism industry (sole proprietorship, partnership, company); business-to-business and business-to-consumers contracts.
• Unfair commercial practices, unfair terms and misleading advertising in the tourism market (rules and case law).
• Lodging industry market: competition law and sustainability issues (rules and case law).
• Transport law and sustainable mobility.
• Management of tourism companies.
• Corporate social responsibility in the tourism industry.
• Dynamic pricing in the travel and tourism industry.

Learning materials for exam preparation will be provided and indicated before the course starts.