Learning objectives

The course is included in the learning area on Food, fashion and cultural heritage. Also thanks to the analysis of practical cases, the course aims at providing students with the basic notions of tourism law, with particular reference to both national and international regulation.
At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate that he will be able to analyze the legal institutions examined, to set up legal questions regarding the main issues of the subject in written and oral form, that he will have an appropriate and specific disciplinary lexicon and he will be able to formulate autonomous opinions about cases and he will have a method about a continuous learning and updating of knowledge.
Students will also acquire the ability to face and solve practical problems typical of the professional context in which they will operate, thus orienting their competence to the goal of contractual compliance and to the prevention of the judicial conflicts. Students will also be able to verify the practical and applicative consequences of the theoretical and regulatory framework and to set, in written and oral form (and also through group work, written exercises and the method of Problem Based Solving - PBS), the solution to concrete issues, using the appropriate and specific disciplinary vocabulary, adopting the correct lines of reasoning and argumentation, and formulating autonomous judgments. The teaching method used is functional to the continuous learning and updating of acquired knowledge.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Prerequisites are not required

Program

The program will be divided into two parts. The first part will indicate the national, international and European Union sources that regulate the tourism sector. Specific attention will be devoted to the analysis both of the directive UE 2015 / 2302 which has modified the previous directive 90 / 314 / CEE and of the decreto legislativo n. 62 of 2018. In this perspective, the course will analyse the regional regulation of the tourist services and will consider the regulation of travel agency liability.
In the second part (also with the intervention of professionals and with student group activities) a specific consideration will be devoted to tourist contracts, such as the voyage contract. The course will consider the so called damage of spoiled holiday and its evolution both in doctrine and in jurisprudence till decreto legislativo n. 62 of 2018.
The course will consider the theme of tourist professions.

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Didactic methods

The course is structured in classroom lectures (thirty hours) and in distance ones (six hours). The lectures will focus on the institutes present in the program, while for the distance lessons experts in the sector will be invited. As part of the course, group work will be proposed according to the indications that will be given in the classroom.

Learning assessment procedures

For students who will attend, the test will be composed of two different parts:
- an oral exam on the topics covered in class
- a presentation of the group works.
For the students who will not attend, the test will consist of a single oral exam.
Erasmus students must arrange an appointment to identify the individual assessment method.

Evaluation criteria

The evaluation will take place according to the following criteria:
- the depth and breadth of the acquired knowledge;
- the ability to link concepts and institutes;
- the property of language;
- analytical and argumentative ability.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final evaluation is expressed out of thirty.

Exam language

Inglese