The ethics of tourism: Critical and applied perspectives

摘要

Tourism, as an experience and as business, often brings ethical issues into stark relief: partly because of the disparity between those with leisure and money to travel and those who service them in destinations; partly because one can see social, economic, and environmental issues with fresh eyes when one is abroad. The Lovelocks have produced a long-overdue and ambitious textbook addressing most of the ethical issues that arise in tourism. As they write in their concluding chapter, they "have provided a variety of topical and relevant issues central to contemporary tourism and explored the utility of a range of ethical frameworks" (p. 354).