COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TOURISM LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 4004 TOURISM LAW COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Tourism and Hotel Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR NIL SONUÇ

Offered to

Tourism and Hotel Management

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to make students learn laws and regulations about tourism and analyse these resources in order to see their relationship with the International Laws and Regulations by the angle of the results that they create during application.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn the basic tourism law concepts.
2   To know the laws and regulations about tourism legislation.
3   To be able to evaluate the results of application of the tourism law and regulations
4   To be able to compare the similarities and differences between tourizm law and regulations of our country and international regulations and and discuss with regards to their effects.
5   To be able to follow the up-to-date developments in tourism law.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic Concepts in Tourism
2 National and International Tourism Associations
3 The Resources of Tourism Law
4 The Regulations in Tourism Sector in Turkey
5 Code of Professional Tourist Guides
6 Code of Travel Agencies numbered 1618
7 Midterm Exam
8 Midterm Exam
9 Incentives in Tourism Sector, Tourism Promotion Law numbered 2634 and the Legal Classification of the Accomodation Sector
10 Institutions giving Tourism Investment and Establishment authorization, the Transactions for applying for this kind of Authorization Document and the Regulation for the Tourism Investment Institutions .
11 Regulation about the relationship of the Tourism Establishments each other, with Ministry, and about the Customer Relations.
12 The Basics of Employing foreign employees in Tourism Establishments.
13 Regulation for Yatch Tourism
14 Regulation for Sportive Activity by the objective of Tourism, Regulation for Hunting Tourism
15 Final Exam
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Hüseyin YILDIRIM (Ed.), Turizm Hukuku ve Mevzuatı, Detay Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2008.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture and case study .

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE*0.40+FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE*0.40+RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 10 10
Preparation for Final Exam 1 10 10
Mid-term 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 96

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55