Tourism and law

The attention of legal studies on tourism is still prevailingly focused on sectional legislation, which represent indeed a very important field to study in depth, since it is filled with implications related in particular to the different kind of tourist contracts. Nevertheless, one thing is to analyze the statutory tourist legislation as a fragmentary set of rules, another thing is to study tourist legislation as a complete system of rules, that is a system composed by the whole set of rules, principles and juridical instruments ‐ private and public ‐ elaborated in this specific area. Due to its nature, tourism has a very tight relationship with territory as well as with its resident population, with its culture and its traditions, which are all elements that must be promoted and improved by the central government and by local administrations.