CONCEPT OF TOURISM LAW

• Tourism is defined as the custom or practice of traveling for pleasure, as well as the promotion by the establishment of countries to attract tourist.
• The World Tourism Organization defines tourism as the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business, and other purposes.
• Tourism law may be defined as a body of rules or principles of action which deals with the regulation, authority, relations, and obedience among members of a society involved in tourist travel and accommodation. It includes persons traveling from place to place for pleasure (tourist) and business establishments or persons engaged in the occupation of providing various services for tourists. It applies to various sectors such as hospitality, travel trade, attractions, MICE (meetings. incentives, conventions, events), academe, labor, and the public

  sector.