Animals and Tourism

Kevin Markwell is Associate Professor at the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Australia. His research focuses on human-animal studies, tourist-nature relationships, wildlife tourism and gay tourism.

• Acknowledgments1. Kevin Markwell: Animals and Tourism: Towards an Understanding of Diverse RelationshipsPart 1: Ethics and Welfare2. David Fennell: The Status of Animal Ethics in Tourism: A Review of Theory3. Georgette Leah Burns: Animals as Tourism Objects: Ethically Refocusing Relationships between Tourists and Wildlife4. Kate Bone and Jane Bone: The Same Dart Trick: The Exploitation of Animals and Women in Thailand Tourism5. Stephen Wearing and Chantelle Jobberns: From ‘Free Willy’ to Sea World: Has Ecotourism Improved the Rights of Whales?6. Brent Lovelock: Troubled Shooting: The Ethics of Helicopter-Assisted Guided Trophy Hunting by Tourists for TahrPart 2: Conflict, Contradiction and Contestation7. James Higham and Katja Neves: Whales, Tourism and Manifold Capitalist Fixes: New Relationships with the Driving Force of Capitalism8. Jeffrey Ventre and John Jett: Killer Whales, Theme Parks and Controversy: An Exploration of the Evidence9. Carlie S. Weiner: Dolphin Tourism and Human Perceptions: Social Considerations to Assessing the Human-Dolphin Interface10. Erik Cohen: Young Elephants in Thai Tourism: A Fatal Attraction11. Outi Ratamäki and Taru Peltola: Drama over Large Carnivores: Performing Wildlife Tourism in a Controversial Space12. David Newsome: Conflicts between Cultural Attitudes, Development and Ecotourism: The Case of Bird Watching Tours in Papua New Guinea13. Muchazondida Mkono: ‘Eating the Animals You Come to See’: Tourists’ Meat-Eating Discourses in Online Communicative TextsPart 3: Shifting Relationships14. R. Harvey Lemelin: From the Recreational Fringe to Mainstream Leisure: The Evolution and Diversification of Entomotourism15. Fernanda de Vasconcellos Pegas : From Dinner Plate to T-Shirt Logo: The Changing Role of a Flagship Turtle Species in One of Brazil’s Most Popular Tourism Destinations16. Jeffrey C. Skibins: Ambassadors or Attractions? Disentangling the Role of Flagship Species in Wildlife Tourism17. Ulrike Gretzel and Anne Hardy: Pooches on Wheels: Overcoming Pet-Related Constraints through RVing18. Kevin Markwell: Exploited Elephants and Pampered Pets: Reflecting on Tourism-Animal RelationshipsIndex

The book has much to offer students of tourism, leisure studies, ethics, and human: animal studies. The chapters on ethics in particular offer sound starts for undergraduate and postgraduate students considering the ethics of tourism and of human: animal relations. There is also a broader audience across academia and in the informed general public(...) I recommend this book to all these potential readers as accessible, easy to dip into where interested, but also offering a sound progression of ideas and analysis.