LEGISLATION AND ETHICS

Legislation and Ethics in Travel and Tourism Sector



Legislation and Ethics in Travel and Tourism Sector

Introduction

Massive increments in international travel and tourism by public sector employees and other participants have raised a variety of ethical concerns that are normally overlooked by the public personnel administrators and or the agencies of the ethical and administrative bodies. Growing concerns of terrorism, accidents, epidemics and geographic hostilities between countries have strongly reinforced that a strong ethical and legislative framework is necessary to deal with issues of this magnitude. Ethics related to tourism and travel gives way to the establishment of personal and institutional responsibilities in the health, security and safety and accessibility sectors, making it a very convenient experience for the travellers or tourists. There is an additional need to work upon areas such as the informed consent, planning and contingency backups and mechanisms of emergency responses, fair practices of trade and business and equal treatment for every stakeholder.

Discussion

Defining the Law and Sources of Law in the United Kingdom

Law is basically described as a set of rules and regulations that serves as a code of conduct for the community as promulgated by some authority either in legislative forms or in the form of a framework given by judicial bodies (Winetrobe, 2001, pp. 97).

There are four primary sources of the law in the United Kingdom: common law, European Union law, the European Convention on Human Rights and legislation,. Legislation is the law that is created by a legislature which, in the case of the U.K, is the U.K. Parliament. Common law is basically the law made by appellate decision in England and Wales, which is referred to as one single body of common law. Being a member of the EU (European Union), the EU law takes precedence over the U.K law so much that it constitutes an important part of the laws applicable to the U.K. society. Being a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the laws created by the ECHR are bound to be followed in all courts of the U.K (Winetrobe, 2001, pp. 95-98).

Delegated Legislation

Delegated or secondary legislation concerns with the comprehensive changes and amendments made to the law through an empowering of an existing Act of Parliament. Apart from an inclusion of the Rules or Codes of Practice, statutory instruments also form an important part of this secondary legislation (Hayhurst & ...