Managing Ethical Consumption in Tourism

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.

• 1. Introduction: managing ethical consumption in tourism –compromises and tensions Clare Weeden and Karla Boluk Section 1: Debates on ethical consumption in tourism 2. What does it mean to be good in tourism? Kellee Caton 3.You can check out anytime but you can never leave: can ethical consumption in tourism ever be sustainable? C. Michael Hall 4.Slow tourism: ethical concerns, positional goods and aesthetic consumption Michael Clancy 5. The role of tourism in the green economy: the influence of environmental ethics of tourism demand and practice Andrew Holden Section 2:: Situating the self in ethical consumption 6.A fresh look into tourist consumption: is there hope for sustainability? Adriana Budeanu and Tareq Emtairah 7.Tourism’s relationship with sustainable food systems Carol Kline, Whitney Knollenberg andCynthia S. Deale 8.Travelling goods: global (self) development on sale Maria Koleth 9.Exploring the ethical discourses presented by volunteer tourists Karla Boluk and Vania Ranjbar 10.An ethical sense of self: the role of emotion Sheila Malone Section3: Helping consumers make ethical decisions 11.Examining ethical information in travel guidebooks Sarah Quinlan Cutler 12.Is there such thing as ethical business travel? An insight in the uptake of hotels’ sustainability practices by business travellers Wouter Geerts 13.Medical tourism: consumptive practice, ethics and health care –the importance of subjective proximity Brent Lovelock and Kirsten Lovelock 14.Marketing responsible tourism Clare Weeden 15. Concluding remarks: ethics and responsibility in tourism Karla Boluk and Clare Weeden

"Therefore, this multifaceted book is recommended for tourism students and academics at all levels and indeed for all those who understand (or hope to see) tourism as much more than an industry, those who consider it an integral element for ecological and social justice (climate justice)."– Antonis Petropoulos, Editor, ECOCLUB.com