COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TOURISM LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 2020 TOURISM LAW COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN AVŞAR KURGUN

Offered to

Tourism Management

Course Objective

To learn the laws and regulations of the tourism law of our country, to see the relations with international tourism law regulations and to examine these sources in terms of the results they will create in practice.

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 Incentives in Tourism Sector, Tourism Promotion Law numbered 2634 and the Legal Classification of the Accomodation Sector
6 Institutions giving Tourism Investment and Establishment authorization, the Transactions for applying for this kind of Authorization Document and the Regulation for the Tourism Investment
7 Midterm Exam
8 Midterm Exam
9 Regulation about the relationship of the Tourism Establishments each other, with Ministry, and about the Customer Relations
10 The Basics of Employing foreign employees in Tourism Establishments.
11 Code of Travel Agencies numbered 1618
12 Code of Professional Tourist Guides
13 Regulation for Sea 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

1. Lecture
2. Homework
3. Case Studies

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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1.Midterm: Midterm consist of chapters in the syllabus and weekly homeworks (%40).
2. Final : Consists of all the chapters in the syllabus and students will be responsible from all case studies and discussions in the class (%60).

Assessment Criteria

1. Midterm exam
2. Final exam
3. Homework

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attending at least 70 percent of lectures is mandatory. The instructor have the right to make practical examinations. Lecturers have the right to give homework. The students are subject to the principles of faculty teaching and examination principles.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erdem.aktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday / 09:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 84

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

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