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various ministers. While legislation is uttered by state bodies
having power to create legal norms in legislative form, case law is
produced by courts. Thus, the literary sources of legislation are
usually separated from case law. As Kelsen's theory of law
illustrates, a superior legislative norm ordinarily contains power
norms which authorizes officials to make subordinate legislation,
and it partly offers decisional norms which guide the official in
determining the content of the particular norms to be made.
Legislation is undoubtedly necessary to regulate the expanding
government function and human relations in modern states.
Tourism has become one the main societal preoccupations where
legislative norms and/or administrative directives are
indispensable to varying degrees in different countries, depending
on their political and economic systems. In this respect, tourism's
national and local organization, tour operators and travel
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