Tourism and welfare ethics, responsibility and sustained well-being

The concepts of welfare and well-being represent a diffuse and relatively neglected area within tourism studies. This is despite the increasing importance of such issues as ethics, wellness, human rights, ethnocentrism, corporate social responsibility, industry practice and behaviour codes, green consumerism and the perceptions and management of ‘sustainable’
development. Our welfare emphasis – a holistic approach to the characteristics and external impacts
of tourism development that does not invoke the absolutist ideals of sustainability – seeks to offer an appraisal of tourism that can both illuminate the major interrelationships of the sector and assist in raising awareness and the better management of some of its implications. In promoting a welfare perspective, therefore, this introductory volume aims to offer
both conceptual direction and practical reflection.
The book elaborates ideas the authors first presented in the paper, ‘Towards a welfare focus for tourism research’, published in Progress in Tourism and Hospitality Research in 1996 (Hall and Brown, 1996). Some of the material in Chapter 6 is derived from research part-funded by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD) and undertaken at the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC). We have greatly appreciated the continued support and encouragement we have received from Rebecca Stubbs, Claire Parfitt and the rest of the commissioning, editorial and production staff of CABI.

Từ khóa: corporate social responsibility, tourism studies, tourism welfare, phúc lợi xã hội, kinh tế du lịch, kinh tế xã hội