Moral Encounters in Tourism

Dr Mary Mostafanezhad is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism Mobilities at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

• Notes on Contributors, 1. Introducing Moral Encounters in Tourism, Section 1: Moral Consumption in Tourism, 2. Moralizing Tourism: Personal Qualities, Political Issues, 3. International Volunteer Tourism as (De)commodified Moral Consumption, 4. The Re-Enchantment of Development: Creating Value for Volunteers in Nepal, 5. Tourism Development, Architectures of Escape and the Passive Beloved in Contemporary Yucatán (México), Section 2: Embodied Tourism Encounters, 6. Reproductive Fugitives, Fertility ‘Exiles’ or Just Parents? Assessing Possible Approaches to the Governance of Cross-Border Fertility Tourism, 7. Gazing at Kayan Female Bodies as Embodied Others in Myanmar, 8. Moral Ambivalence in English Language Voluntourism, 9. Moral Lessons from a Storied Past in New York City, Section 3: Environmental Tourism Moralities, 10. On Decommodifying Ecotourism’s Social Value: Neoliberal Reformism or the New Environmental Morality?, 11. The Moralization of Flying: Cocktails in Seat 33G, Famine and Pestilence Below, 12. A Plutonium Tourism Ode: The Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 13. Paying for Proximity: Touching the Moral Economy of Ecological Voluntourism, Section 4: Moral Methodologies, 14. Humanism and Tourism: A Moral Encounter, 15. Mind the Gap: Opening up Spaces of Multiple Moralities in Tourism Encounters, 16. What’s the ‘Use’ of Young Budget Travel?, 17. To Boldly Go Where No Van Has Gone Before: Auto-Ethnographic Experimentation and Mobile Fieldwork, Conclusion, 18. Conclusions: The Moral Conduct of Tourism Research, Index

’Mostafanezhad and Hannam have collected the best minds in tourism and ethics in order to create a book that works to counter the preponderance of neoliberal cheerleading for tourism as the answer to all our economic woes. If you want to generate lively debate in your classroom regarding the ethics of tourism, this book is a great place to start!’ Nancy Gard McGehee, Virginia Tech, USA ’The issues of morality and ethics have increased relevance to tourism as the accommodation of an increasing diversity of cultures and physical environments into the tourism system has transformed it into a significant agent of social change. This timely and fascinating book offers insights into the moral complexity of the plurality of challenges and situations that arise from this recreational mobility.’ Andrew Holden, University of Bedfordshire, UK ’This lively, varied text makes a significant contribution to tourist studies by exploring morality and tourism from multiple perspectives. Simple depictions of hosts as the benighted victims of exploitative tourists are replaced by a rich, sophisticated analysis of the complex, shifting relationship between hosts and guests. Chapter themes focus on the contemporary quest for sustainable, ethical and volunteer tourisms, and tourist desires to intervene in cases of perceived social oppression or environmental damage. In examining all kinds of cultural encounter, this exciting, cutting-edge volume reveals that contemporary tourism constitutes a vexed moral terrain. As such, it provides an indispensable, clear-eyed account of how the moral positions of tourists and those who cater for them continuously clash and realign.’ Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ’In this book Mostafanezhad and Hannam offer a very welcome analysis of the ways morality and tourism are inter-twined. The contributions to this collection convincingly move the debate forward on the ethics of tourism by arguing that tourism is a moral e