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2026/2027  BA-BSTHO1010U  Public Regulations: Tourism and Hospitality

English Title
Public Regulations: Tourism and Hospitality

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Bachelor
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Third Quarter
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for Service and Markets
Programme Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Service Management
Course coordinator
  • Siddhesh Rao - Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL)
Main academic disciplines
  • Business Law
  • Political leadership and public management
  • Service management
Teaching methods
  • Blended learning
Last updated on 23-06-2026

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Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, the student should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:
  • Identify and explain the legal aspects of public regulation
  • Describe and compare key cross-border regulatory concepts and how they apply to business
  • Examine the essential elements of a concrete legal problem in tourism and hospitality and apply the relevant sources of law to conduct a reasoned legal analysis
  • Assess the ethical and distributive implications of regulatory choices
Examination
Public regulations: Tourism and hospitality:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Written sit-in exam on CBS' computers
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Assignment type Written assignment
Duration 4 hours
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Spring
Aids Limited aids, see the list below:
The student is allowed to bring
  • USB key for uploading of notes, books and compendiums in a non-executable format (no applications, application fragments, IT tools etc.)
  • In Paper format: Books (including translation dictionaries), compendiums and notes
The student will have access to
  • Canvas
  • Basic IT application package
  • The personal drive (S-drive) on CBS´ network
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
The number of registered candidates for the make-up examination/re-take examination may warrant that it most appropriately be held as an oral examination. The programme office will inform the students if the make-up examination/re-take examination instead is held as an oral examination including a second examiner or external examiner.
Description of the exam procedure

The make up/re-exam in the full curriculum
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

Public regulation increasingly shapes the environment in which organisations operate, markets function, and tourism and hospitality services are provided. This course aims to provide students with the basic theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to analyse the interaction between business activities in the tourism and hospitality sector and public regulation.

 

The course provides a number of legal parameters and tools relevant to students in the Tourism and Hospitality profile, based for the most part on rules found at the EU level. In the first half of the course, general EU internal market law, competition law, public procurement law, and data protection will be covered. In the second half, the course focuses on specific business areas and regulatory issues relevant to the tourism and hospitality sector, examining the constraints and opportunities these create for organisations and service activities.

 

The relationship between theory and practice is developed by applying the knowledge provided in the course to specific cases involving real organisations, sectors, or regulatory settings. Through its learning activities and assessments, the course enhances competencies in problem-solving, teamwork, written and oral presentation, coordination of project activities, and the application of knowledge in practice.
Research-based teaching
CBS’ programmes and teaching are research-based. The following types of research-based knowledge and research-like activities are included in this course:
Research-based knowledge
  • Classic and basic theory
  • New theory
  • Methodology
  • Models
Research-like activities
  • Analysis
  • Discussion, critical reflection, modelling
Description of the teaching methods
The course operates under a flipped classroom model with material delivered through pre-recorded lectures released in batches.

In addition, the course will include live sessions interspersed between the releases of the pre-recorded lectures. Some of these will focus on the readings and questions set in advance, others in companies/sectors relevant for the various concentrations of the course.

It is expected that students prepare before classes by reading relevant documents, articles and/or case studies as suggested in the reading schedule made available on canvas.
Feedback during the teaching period
Students will be given feedback via:

I) Quizzes based on the recorded lectures content that will be made available on canvas and then reviewed at one of the live sessions;

II) By attempting the set questions in advance of the live sessions and participating in the group discussions in class before feeding them back to the whole class.
Student workload
Lectures and live sessions 38 hours
Preparation for class and exam 166 hours
Exam 4 hours
Expected literature

This course will not have a core textbook but selected sources (book chapters and journal articles) available via the CBS library will be linked to on Canvas.
Last updated on 23-06-2026