Legal Issues Regarding Arctic Cruise Shipping in the Russian Federation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Research Methods
3. Results and Way Forward
4. Discussion and Analysis
4.1. Relevant International Legal Instruments Acceded by the Russian Federation
4.2. Russia’s Domestic Laws Governing Cruise Shipping
4.3. Contract of Carriage of Passenger by Sea and Liability of the Carrier
4.4. Distinctiveness of the Cruise Shipping Contract
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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International Carriage of Passengers by Sea | Maritime Transportation | Tourism |
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1961 Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for Carriage of Passengers by Sea with protocol | SOLAS | 1963 UN Diplomatic Conference on International Travel and Tourism |
1967 Brussels International Convention for the Unification of Rules Relating to the Carriage of Passenger’s Luggage by Sea | MARPOL | 1980 Manila Declaration on World Tourism |
Athens Convention | SAR-79 | 1974 International Cultural Tourism Charter |
FAL | 2017 Polar Code | 1985 Tourism Bill of Rights and Tourist Code |
1989 Hague Declaration | ||
1995 Charter for Sustainable Tourism | ||
1999 Global Code of Ethics of Tourism | ||
2001 Osaka Millennium Declaration |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleKseniia, Novikova, Mehran Idris Khan, and Yen-Chiang Chang. 2021. "Legal Issues Regarding Arctic Cruise Shipping in the Russian Federation" Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7016. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137016