The Moralisation of Tourism - Sun, Sand... and Saving the World?

Using a host of international examples Butcher examines what the advocates of 'new tourism' see as being wrong with mass tourism, looks critically at the claims made for the new alternatives and makes a case for guilt-free holidays.

List of contents

Introduction Chapter 1. Mass Tourism Chapter 2. What's new? - Traveller, tourist and the moral debate Chapter 3. The hosts: fragile places, fragile people? Chapter 4. The tourists: too much freedom? Chapter 5. The cultural sensibilities of the New Moral Tourist Chapter 6. Travelling for a change: global culture and the ethical tourist Chapter 7. The moralisation of tourism, the Third World and development, Postscript: Re-presenting tourism

About the author

Jim Butcher

Summary

Using a host of international examples Butcher examines what the advocates of 'new tourism' see as being wrong with mass tourism, looks critically at the claims made for the new alternatives and makes a case for guilt-free holidays.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Butcher, Butcher Jim
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2002
• EAN: 9780415296557
• ISBN: 978-0-415-29655-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Sports & outdoor recreation, Human Geography, Sports and Active outdoor recreation