Animals and Tourism: Understanding Diverse Relationships

Published by Channel View Publications 2015

Animals and Tourism

Understanding Diverse Relationships

Edited by: Kevin Markwell

Volume 67 in the series Aspects of Tourism

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845415051

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About this book

This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect and aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between animals, tourists and the tourism industry.

Author / Editor information

Markwell Kevin :

Kevin Markwell is Associate Professor at the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Australia. His research focuses on human-animal studies, tourist-nature relationships, wildlife tourism and gay tourism.

Reviews

Hal Herzog, Western Carolina University, USA:

From the ethics of helicopter hunting and the roles of pets in RV parks to the growth of insect-based tourism, Animals and Tourism: Understanding Diverse Relationships offers a unique and fascinating window into the recreational use – and misuse – of the creatures we share our world with.

Margo DeMello, Canisius College Anthrozoology Program, USA:

This important and timely anthology addresses many of the practical and ethical implications of making other animals the subject of our holiday activities. With essays on everything from the most common forms of animal tourism (whale-watching, dolphin tourism, bird watching) to the less well-known (entomotourism, helicopter hunting, meat-tourism), this book will offer the animals studies scholar, conservationist or animal lover much to think about.

Jamie McMenamin and Lauri Hyers, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA:

For academics, activists, policy officials, and the concerned public eager to delve beneath the surface of the popular press banter, this book provides an eclectic set of deeper policy and cultural issues to consider. (It) offers an excellent introduction to these issues as they stand right now, and an invitation for the reader to consider how to become part of the solution.

Janette Young, University of South Australia, Australia:

The book has much to offer students of tourism, leisure studies, ethics, and human: animal studies. The chapters on ethics in particular offer sound starts for undergraduate and postgraduate students considering the ethics of tourism and of human: animal relations. There is also a broader audience across academia and in the informed general public(...) I recommend this book to all these potential readers as accessible, easy to dip into where interested, but also offering a sound progression of ideas and analysis.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
1. Birds, Beasts and Tourists: Human–Animal Relationships in Tourism Kevin Markwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Ethics and Animal Welfare
2. The Status of Animal Ethics Research in Tourism: A Review of Theory David A. Fennell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Animals as Tourism Objects: Ethically Refocusing Relationships Between Tourists and Wildlife Georgette Leah Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4. The Same Dart Trick: The Exploitation of Animals and Women in Thailand Tourism Kate Bone and Jane Bone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
5. From Free Willy to SeaWorld: Has Ecotourism Improved the Rights of Whales? Stephen Wearing and Chantelle Jobberns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6. Troubled-Shooting: The Ethics of Helicopter-assisted Guided Trophy Hunting by Tourists for Tahr Brent Lovelock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part 2: Conflict, Contradiction and Contestation
7. Whales, Tourism and Manifold Capitalist Fixes: New Relationships with the Driving Force of Capitalism James Higham and Katja Neves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
8. Killer Whales, Theme Parks and Controversy: An Exploration of the Evidence Jeffrey Ventre and John Jett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
9. Dolphin Tourism and Human Perceptions: Social Considerations to Assessing the Human–Dolphin Interface Carlie S. Wiener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
10. Young Elephants in Thai Tourism: A Fatal Attraction Erik Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
11. Drama Over Large Carnivores: Performing Wildlife Tourism in a Controversial Space Outi Ratamäki and Taru Peltola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
12. Conflicts Between Cultural Attitudes, Development and Ecotourism: The Case of Bird Watching Tours in Papua New Guinea David Newsome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
13. ‘Eating the Animals You Come to See’: Tourists’ Meat-eating Discourses in Online Communicative Texts Muchazondida Mkono Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Part 3: Shifting Relationships
14. From the Recreational Fringe to Mainstream Leisure: The Evolution and Diversification of Entomotourism R. Harvey Lemelin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
15. From Dinner Plate to T-shirt Logo: The Changing Role of a Flagship Turtle Species in One of Brazil’s Most Popular Tourism Destinations Fernanda de Vasconcellos Pegas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
16. Ambassadors or Attractions? Disentangling the Role of Flagship Species in Wildlife Tourism Jeffrey C. Skibins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
17. Pooches on Wheels: Overcoming Pet-related Travel Constraints Through RVing Ulrike Gretzel and Anne Hardy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
18. Exploited Elephants and Pampered Pets: Reflecting on Tourism–Animal Relationships Kevin Markwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Keywords: tourism and animals; tourism studies; human-animal studies; tourist attractions; tourism and wildlife management; wildlife conservation; tourism-animal relationships; animal ethics; hunting tourism; tourism and nature; tourism ethics; animal welfare; tourists and wildlife; animal studies

eBook

Published: May 1, 2015
ISBN: 9781845415051