Description
| Product ID: | 9781138491069 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Tourism, Environment and Development Series |
| Title: | Human Rights Issues in Tourism |
| Authors: | Author: Atsuko Hashimoto, Elif Harkonen, Edward Nkyi |
| Page Count: | 420 |
| Subjects: | Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, Tourism industry, Transport: general interest, Transport: general interest |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-12-29 |
