The Ethics of Tourism Development

ISBN-13: 9780415266857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 195 str.

Mick Smith; Rosaleen Duffy

Opis

Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the values and presuppositions that are associated with its own cultural origins. This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity (or lack of) in host-guest relations; the (un)fair distribution of benefits and revenues; and the moral implications of issues like sex tourism, staged authenticity and travel to oppressive regimes. The book concludes with a detailed investigation of the potential and pitfalls of ecotourism, sustainable tourism and community based tourism, as examples of what is sometimes termed ethical tourism.

Recenzje

'[A] closely argued academic text on ethical issues that arise from tourism.' - Tourism Review International

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Ethical Values 2. The Virtues of Travel and the Virtuous Traveller 3. The Greatest Happiness is to Travel? 4. Rights, Codes of Practice, and Social Justice 5. From Social Justice to an Ethics of Care 6. Authenticity and the Ethics of Tourism 7. Ethics and Sustainable Tourism

O autorze

Duffy, Rosaleen; Smith, Mick