Focus

Jurnal Hukum Saraswati (JHS) is a peer reviewed and open access academic journal that advances legal scholarship in the fields of economic law and tourism law. The journal provides a scholarly forum for researchers, academics, practitioners, and policymakers to examine how legal institutions, regulatory frameworks, and public policies influence economic activities and tourism development at national, regional, and international levels.

JHS focuses on the relationship between law, economic activity, and tourism development. The journal examines tourism as a complex legal and economic sector involving governments, businesses, investors, workers, consumers, local communities, and other stakeholders. This perspective enables the journal to investigate how legal rules regulate economic relationships, distribute rights and responsibilities, protect public interests, strengthen business certainty, and support responsible tourism development.

The journal publishes research that develops legal concepts, evaluates regulatory frameworks, examines institutional practices, and proposes legal reforms concerning economic activities and tourism. JHS welcomes doctrinal, empirical, comparative, sociolegal, and interdisciplinary legal research. The journal particularly encourages studies that combine rigorous legal analysis with an examination of economic consequences, institutional practices, and contemporary developments in tourism.

Scope

Jurnal Hukum Saraswati (JHS) invites high-quality submissions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Economic Law and Tourism Regulation
  Research may examine laws and policies that regulate tourism businesses, tourism destinations, commercial activities, licensing systems, market governance, and economic development within the tourism sector.
• Investment Law and Tourism Development
  Research may address domestic and foreign investment, investment protection, business licensing, investment incentives, legal certainty, infrastructure development, and public-private partnerships in tourism.
• Business and Competition Law
  Research may address corporate governance, business responsibility, market competition, unfair business practices, market concentration, and the legal responsibilities of tourism enterprises.
• Labour Law and Tourism Employment
  Research may examine employment relationships, decent work, migrant workers, informal workers, employment protection, occupational rights, working conditions, and labour regulation within tourism, hospitality, and related industries.
• Consumer Protection and Tourism Services
  Research may examine tourist rights, business responsibilities, service liability, digital transactions, contractual relationships, unfair commercial practices, consumer remedies, and mechanisms for resolving tourism disputes.
• Digital Economy and Tourism Law
  Research may address digital tourism platforms, artificial intelligence, electronic commerce, data protection, cybersecurity, financial technology, digital transactions, and legal challenges arising from technological transformation in tourism.
• Intellectual Property and Creative Tourism Economy
  Research may analyze trademarks, geographical indications, copyright, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, destination branding, creative industries, and legal protection for products associated with tourism destinations.
• Sustainable Tourism and Economic Justice
  Research may examine environmental regulation, climate governance, sustainable investment, community participation, equitable benefit distribution, corporate responsibility, and legal mechanisms that support sustainable tourism.
• Taxation and Tourism Fiscal Policy
  Research may examine tourism taxation, fiscal incentives, regional revenue, fiscal decentralization, public expenditure, and regulatory instruments used by governments to support tourism development.
• Community and Indigenous Tourism
  Research may address community participation, customary institutions, indigenous rights, cultural heritage, local economic empowerment, access to economic opportunities, and the equitable distribution of tourism benefits.

JHS prioritizes research that extends beyond the description of legislation. Authors are expected to identify significant legal problems, develop clear research questions, engage critically with relevant legal theories or concepts, and explain the contribution of their findings to economic law, tourism law, or the relationship between these fields.

The journal also encourages research on emerging legal issues arising from transformations in the contemporary economy and tourism sector, including artificial intelligence, digital platforms, sustainable finance, green investment, climate-responsive tourism, digital employment, responsible business practices, geographical indications, creative economies, and community-based tourism.

Through this academic orientation, Jurnal Hukum Saraswati (JHS) seeks to strengthen the development of economic law and tourism law as interconnected fields of legal scholarship. The journal promotes research that explains how law can govern economic transformation, strengthen legal certainty, protect stakeholder interests, encourage responsible business practices, and support inclusive and sustainable tourism development.