Law and Business Ethics Education for Tourism and Hospitality “Knowledge Development and Awareness Dissemination”

Abstract

A tourist experience has been found to be formulated out of the sequence of events and encounters lived over the experience duration. But rarely has the element of legal knowledge and awareness been considered as a formulating/shaping factor. There is no such thing as a tourist bubble in an authentic tourism experience. Actions and interactions between tourists and the host community sometimes would lead to frictions, in most cases these frictions are initiated by culture differences, communications problems, and at a distance not so far comes the legal perceptions differences and in many cases ignorance. Hence, stands out the role of tourism affiliates in protecting tourists, host community, and country’s assets and heritage. The study aims to develop the legal knowledge of tourism and hospitality students and industry affiliates. To achieve the study aim the following objectives were proposed: • To assess the current status of law/legislations courses offered to tourism and hospitality students • To develop the law/legislations course syllabus and teaching approach • To propose a means of law/legislations knowledge dissemination among industry affiliates Keywords: education, Egypt, ethics, hospitality, law, legislations, Oman, tourism