Transcript Sustainable Destination Marketing Assignment

Sustainable Destination Mkt Presentations
TOURISM &
HUMAN RIGHTS
Sait, Thuy, Jule, Annumaria, Jaakko & Valentin
NATURE-BASED
TOURISM
Claire, Quyen, Saara-Maija, Jutta, An & Akande
TOURISM & GLOBAL
CLIMATE CHANGE
Eucharia, Vy, Laura, Sara & Adela
TOURISM
LABOUR MARKETS
Juho, My, Rene, Jannica & Nadya
Sustainable Destination Mkt Presentations
TOURISM &
HUMAN RIGHTS
Build Your Presentation Around These Talking Points
Useful resources to get you started
• Define human rights & discuss their
relevance to tourism.
• Describe major global human rights policy &
legislation & how they impact the tourism
industry.
• Critically discuss alternative and responsible
tourism) in relation to human rights.
• Explain how tourism may improve or detract
from the human rights of people living in
destination communities.
UNWTO (1999) Global Code of Ethics for Tourism.
Available at
http://ethics.unwto.org/en/content/global-codeethics-tourism (Accessed 20 May 2015).
Hemingway, S. (2004) “The impact of tourism on the
human rights of women in South East Asia”,
International Journal of Human Rights, 8(3): 275-304.
Lovelock, B.A. (2008) “Ethical travel decisions: travel
agents and human rights”, Annals of Tourism Research,
35(2): 338-58.
________ (2012) “Human rights and human travel:
Modelling global travel patterns under an ethical
tourism regime”, Tourism Review International, 16(3).
Sustainable Destination Mkt Presentations
NATURE-BASED
TOURISM
Build Your Presentation Around These Talking Points
• Define nature-based tourism, including an
economic perspective.
• Describe the impacts of nature-based tourism
and identify factors that influence the level and
type of impact that tourism has upon natural
systems.
• Critically discuss alternative forms of naturebased tourism (e.g. sustainable tourism and
eco-tourism).
• Describe and provide suggestions how
individual tourists can play a role as
practitioners of sustainable tourism.
Useful resources to get you started
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Briassoulis, H. (2002) “Sustainable tourism and the
questions of the Commons,” Annals of Tourism
Research, 29(4): 1065-85.
Evans, G. (1993) “Tourists rush for kill a seal pup
holiday”, Evening Standard, London, 5 July, p. 10.
Romeril, M. (1989) “Tourism and the environment –
accord or discord?”, Tourism Management, 10(3):
204-8.
The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) (2012)
“What is Ecotourism?” Available at:
https://www.ecotourism.org/what-is-ecotourism
(Accessed 20 May 2015)
Sustainable Destination Mkt Presentations
TOURISM & GLOBAL
CLIMATE CHANGE
Build Your Presentation Around These Talking Points
Useful resources to get you started
• Discuss issues of responsibility and harm in
relation to tourism and climate change.
• Use the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” and “Tragedy
of the Commons” to help explain the ethical
problems of tourism in relation to climate
change.
• Identify and evaluate alternative solutions
posed for reducing carbon emissions from
the tourism industry.
• Critically discuss the tensions between the
environmental, social and economic impacts
of touristic aviation.
•Broome, J. (2008) “The ethics of climate change”, Scientific
American. Available at:
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/1_0.doc
(Accessed 20 May 2015).
•Burns, P. and Bibbings, L. “The end of tourism? Climate
change and societal challenges”, 21st Century Society, 4(1):
31-51
•McKercher, B., Prideaux, B., et al. (2010) “Achieving
voluntary reductions in the carbon footprint of tourism and
climate change”, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18(3): 297317.
•Schenk, R. (2011) The Prisoner’s Dilemma. Available at
<http://ingrimayne.com/econ/IndividualGroup/PrisDilm.ht
ml> (Accessed 20 May 2015)
Sustainable Destination Mkt Presentations
TOURISM
LABOUR MARKETS
Build Your Presentation Around These Talking Points
Useful resources to get you started
• Burns, P. (1993) “Sustaining tourism employment”,
• Discuss the tourism industry and the key
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1:81-96.
features of its labour force.
• Ladkin, A. (2011) “Exploring Tourism Labor”,
• Identify and discuss the main ethical issues
Annals of Tourism Research, 38(3): 1135-55.
associated with employment in this industry.
• Lee, C-K. and Seyong, K. (1998) “Measuring
• Explain and illustrate what is meant by
earnings, inequality and median earnings in the
“labour mobility” and “the employment
tourism industry”, Tourism Management, 19: 349effects of tourism.:
58.
• Describe and provide suggestions how
individual tourists can address the ethical
issues and concerns of labour in the tourism
industry.