Table Of ContentManaging Ethical Consumption in
Tourism
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 one 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 marketplace and provides a
rich understanding of the challenges facing those seeking to encourage travellers to
become more responsible.
Not only does this book provide an improved interpretation of the complexity of
ethical consumption in tourism, it also offers a variety of stakeholders a deeper under-
standing 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 a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and
academics interested in Tourism Ethics, Ethical Consumption and the global issue of
Sustainability.
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
motivations, destination marketing 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.
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Tourism and Crisis (2013)
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Managing Ethical Consumption in Tourism (2014)
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Managing Ethical
Consumption in Tourism
Edited by Clare Weeden and
Karla Boluk
First published 2014
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pages cm. – (Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Tourism–Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Tourism–Management.
3. Consumption (Economics)–Moral and ethical aspects. I. Weeden,
Clare.
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Contents
List of figures x
List of tables xi
Notes on contributors xii
Foreword xv
Acknowledgements xviii
1 Introduction: managing ethical consumption in
tourism – compromises and tensions 1
CLARE WEEDEN AND KARLA BOLUK
PART I
Debates on ethical consumption in tourism 17
2 What does it mean to be good in tourism? 19
KELLEE CATON
3 You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave:
can ethical consumption in tourism ever be sustainable? 32
C. MICHAEL HALL
4 Slow tourism: ethics, aesthetics and consumptive values 56
MICHAEL CLANCY
5 The evolution of environmental ethics: reflections on
tourism consumption 70
ANDREW HOLDEN
viii Contents
PART II
Situating the self in ethical consumption 81
6 A fresh look into tourist consumption: is there hope for
sustainability? An empirical study of Swedish tourists 83
ADRIANA BUDEANU AND TAREQ EMTAIRAH
7 Tourism’s relationship with ethical food systems: fertile
ground for research 104
CAROL KLINE, WHITNEY KNOLLENBERG AND
CYNTHIA SHIRLEY DEALE
8 Travelling goods: global (self ) development on sale 122
MARIA KOLETH
9 Exploring the ethical discourses presented by volunteer
tourists 134
KARLA BOLUK AND VANIA RANJBAR
10 Ethical tourism: the role of emotion 153
SHEILA MALONE
PART III
Helping consumers make ethical decisions 167
11 Tread lightly through this Lonely Planet: examining ethical
information in travel guidebooks 169
SARAH QUINLAN CUTLER
12 Business travel and the environment: the strains of
travelling for work and the impact on travellers’
pro- environmental in situ behaviour 188
WOUTER GEERTS
13 Medical tourism: consumptive practice, ethics and
healthcare – the importance of subjective proximity 207
KIRSTEN LOVELOCK AND BRENT LOVELOCK
14 Marketing responsible tourism 225
CLARE WEEDEN
Contents ix
15 Concluding remarks 240
KARLA BOLUK AND CLARE WEEDEN
Index 248
