Law In Hospitality Sector

How the company, employment, and contract law has a potential impact on business decision making in the hospitality industry

Each and every business organization has to follow and maintain some laws. Without those laws the hotel cannot be run. The government of the country will not appeal to run the organization. So to run the business knowing the law and maintain those law are importance.

Here are the impact of laws for decision making:

Keeping customer safe

In order to keep the customer safe from any disease from food eaten from hotel knowing of law is important. If the hotel management maintain the food acts then the food will be harm free from many harmful chemicals. Many food become contaminated by overuse of harmful chemicals. So to keep the food safe and contaminated free the hotel industry should maintain the laws and legislations.

Protecting of reputations

In a hotel industry or any other business industry reputation is a main key for success. If the law maintained well then the hotel reputation will go higher. If the hotel fails to maintain the law then the employee and other people may bring up protests.  Many kinds of discrimination such as gender, color, race, religion makes the unwanted negative attention. So the hotel needs to maintain discrimination laws.

Fair marketing

Fair marketing means promoting the product or service properly. The marketing should not disagree or conflict with religion, sex or other sensitive issues. Even the marketing method should be legal. And the product and service price should be appreciate by all the customers.

Honoring agreements

In a business or a hotel industry there are many kinds of contracts happens in a day. The manager, stuffs and other members needs to honor those agreements.

Keeping record of hospitality laws

Keeping the record of hospitality laws helps sometimes much. Sometimes the company needs to prove that the company was adhere to hospitality laws, so these records can be an evidence of hotels. The manager needs to keep updated and accurate papers of agreements and tax papers and other kinds of important documents safely in order to show them in time. Without paper recording the business may fall into a huge trouble. The paper may needs to show on court for evidence. So keeping records of papers are important.


Law that a hospitality organization has to agree and maintain



Health and Safety at Work (General Risk and Workplace Management) Regulations 2016

Health & safety act 1989

This act ensures healthy environment for the employees. This law also provides the regulation to safe equipment and safe working system.

Privacy act 1988

Every business organization and every employ has some privacy. The act ensures that the privacy should not go in 3rd parties hands.

Discrimination act 1991

This acts target is to reduce discrimination. All the employee are human. So each and every employee should treat equally.

Food Act 2014

This acts purpose to ensure that the food is safe for human. So the hotel needs to give importance on this act.

Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

In order to ensure safe, responsible sale, supply and use of alcohol minimization of the harmful ingredients and use it appropriately this act was made.

Taxation Act 2003

This act is for giving the taxes timely and regularly. This is not only for hospitality business every kind of business needs to maintain this law.

Those are the laws for running a hospitality organization. Each and every hospitality industry needs to follow them or the organization will be ban by the government.

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