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This book uniquely focuses on human rights issues associated with tourism development and tourism businesses. Tourism is a manifestation of globalization and it intersects with human rights on so many levels. These implications are increasingly relevant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global economic hardship.
Split into two main sections, the first establishes a background to human rights issues with reference to tourism, and the second provides a multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of selected human rights issues in tourism; these include displacement, security, privacy, discrimination, freedom of movement, the rights of Indigenous people, sex tourism and labour conditions. All chapters include case studies to showcase specific issues such as legal rulings or tourism policies/regulations. This book is written by a highly regarded team of authors specializing in tourism studies and human rights law.
This significant volume on the interaction between tourism development and the safeguarding of human rights will be of interest to a variety of disciplines, in the fields of tourism, political science and tourism/human rights.
List of contents
SECTION 1 Background of human rights in tourism
1 Introduction to human rights and civil rights in tourism and hospitality
2 Tourism enterprises and human rights
3 Human rights, development, and the Sustainable Development Goals
4 Politics, human rights, and tourism
SECTION 2 Human rights issues in tourism
5 Human security, human rights, and tourism
6 Right to privacy and tourism
7 Displacement in tourism
8 Discrimination of patrons in tourism establishments
9 Rights to freedom of movement and tourism
10 Human rights and labour conditions in tourism establishments
11 Human rights, the environment, and tourism
12 Indigenous people’s rights and tourism
13 Sex tourism
SECTION 3 Conclusion
14 Human rights in tourism: concluding remarks
Appendices
A Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Summary
This book focuses exclusively on Human Rights issues associated with tourism development and tourism businesses. It provides a multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of human rights issues in tourism from displacement, security, privacy, freedom of movement to labour conditions.
