Managing Ethical Consumption in Tourism [electronic resource].

ISBN:

9781317999690

Title:

Author:

Weeden, Clare.

Personal Author:

Weeden, Clare.

Publication Information:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Series:

Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: managing ethical consumption in tourism - compromises and tensions; PART I Debates on ethical consumption in tourism; 2 What does it mean to be good in tourism?; 3 You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave: can ethical consumption in tourism ever be sustainable?; 4 Slow tourism: ethics, aesthetics and consumptive values; 5 The evolution of environmental ethics: reflections on tourism consumption

PART II Situating the self in ethical consumption6 A fresh look into tourist consumption: is there hope for sustainability? An empirical study of Swedish tourists; 7 Tourism's relationship with ethical food systems: fertile ground for research; 8 Travelling goods: global (self ) development on sale; 9 Exploring the ethical discourses presented by volunteer tourists; 10 Ethical tourism: the role of emotion; PART III Helping consumers make ethical decisions; 11 Tread lightly through this Lonely Planet: examining ethical information in travel guidebooks

12 Business travel and the environment: the strains of travelling for work and the impact on travellers' pro-environmental in situ behaviour13 Medical tourism: consumptive practice, ethics and healthcare - the importance of subjective proximity; 14 Marketing responsible tourism; 15 Concluding remarks; Index

Subject Term:

Consumption (Economics) --Moral and ethical aspects.

Tourism -- Management.

Tourism -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Added Author:

Boluk, Karla.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.

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Summary

Neither the tourism industry nor the tourist has responded convincingly to calls for more responsibility in tourism. Ethical consumption places pressure on travellers to manage a large number of decisions at a time when hedonic motivations threaten to override other priorities. Unsurprisingly, tensions occur and compromises are made. This book offers new insight into the motivations that influence tourists and their decision-making. It explores how consumers navigate the responsible tourism market place and provide a rich understanding of the challenges facing those seeking to encourage travellers to become responsible.

Not only will the book provide an improved interpretation of the complexity of ethical consumption in tourism, but it will also offer a variety of stakeholders a deeper understanding of:

the key challenges facing stakeholders in the production and consumption of responsible tourism how ethical consumers can be influenced to consume ethically the gaps in consumer knowledge and how to broaden the appeal for individuals to make more informed ethical decisions how tour operators can respond to this emerging market by innovative product development how to design informative marketing communications to encourage a greater uptake for responsible holidays how destinations can tailor their products to the ethical consumer market how destination communities and management organisations can target responsible tourists through the provision of sustainable alternatives to mass-market holiday products.

Written by leading academics from all over the world, this timely and important volume will be valuable reading for ubdergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics interested in Tourism Ethics, Ethical Consumption and the global issue of Sustainability.

Author Notes

Clare Weeden is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Marketing at the University of Brighton. Her research interests lie in the areas of ethical tourism, responsible tourist motivatios, decision making and cruise tourism.

Karla Boluk is a Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Ulster. Her research interests lie in the areas of ethical/sustainable consumption in tourism, Fair Trade Tourism, FTTSA, social entrepreneurship and volunteer tourism.