Tourism Ethics

‘Alternative Hedonism’: Exploring the Role of Pleasure in Moral Markets

“…'here is a market setting in which overtourism can be addressed'). While we do not know whether or how our consumers experienced this on an emotional level (Malone et al 2014), we do begin to understand the processes involved in ameliorating the perceived impediments to experiencing pleasure within tourist moral market settings (Butcher 2003;Fennell 2006). For example, Mahrouse (2011) notes that the privileged position of 'Volunteer Tourists', in respect to poorer locals, was uncomfortably experienced.…”

“…At the micro-level, the idea of a 'new moral tourist' (Butcher 2003) is significant given the widely held view of tourism as a fundamentally hedonic consumption experience, driven by fun, fantasy and other self-oriented pleasures (Goossens 2000). That is, tourists' fundamental disposition to 'get away from it all', is seductive precisely because it promises unencumbered license to pursue personal pleasure (Caruana and Crane 2011), devoid of the everyday constraints of moral responsibility, duty and other pious, self-sacrificing inclinations (Fennell 2006). Yet, it is still widely understood that the motivations of the people who are attracted to sustainable tourism, "do not radically differ from those who are seeking regular pleasure travel (i.e., tourism experiences that do not claim to be socially responsible)", (Mahrouse 2011, p. 376).…”

The perception of unethical issues in selected Thailand tourist areas: Measuring the attitudes of foreign tourism students

“…One of the solutions for this kind of problem could be an adequate Ethical education of future tourism professionals. Tourism ethics can point out what is good/bad or right/wrong in tourism (Fennell, 2006), while education in tourism ethics should provide tourism students with ability to distinguish between the two. Many authors (Macbeth, 2005;Fennell, 2006;Caton, 2012;Fennell, 2014;Cotterell, Arcodia, & Ferreira, 2015) consider that ethics is important in practice, but also in tourism education.…”

“…Tourism ethics can point out what is good/bad or right/wrong in tourism (Fennell, 2006), while education in tourism ethics should provide tourism students with ability to distinguish between the two. Many authors (Macbeth, 2005;Fennell, 2006;Caton, 2012;Fennell, 2014;Cotterell, Arcodia, & Ferreira, 2015) consider that ethics is important in practice, but also in tourism education. Cotterell et al (2015) claimed that in preparing future tourism professional, universities need to design curriculum that develop students' skills in critical thinking including ethics and sustainability in tourism industry.…”

Tourism and Aldo Leopold's “cultural harvest”: creating virtuous tourists as agents of sustainability

“…Moral commitments and exhortations permeate the work that first popularized the idea of sustainable development -the World Commission on Environment and Development's (1987) 'Our has regularly looked to Leopold for insight and argument (e.g. Fennell, 2000Fennell, , 2006Fennell, , 2009Holden, 2003Holden, , 2005Hollinshead, 1990;Hultsman, 1995;Lemelin & Smale, 2007;Macbeth, 2005;Shultis & Way, 2006). Famously, Leopold (1968) recast humans as plain members and fellow citizens of the land-community, rather than conquerors of it, and in so doing extended the ethical community from humans to animals, and ultimately to the land itself.…”