Tourism and Human Rights
Ethic and tourism
Ethical principles should be at the forefront of corporate trade policy and environmental sustainability governing the industry’s behavior in host destinations. The reason as to why human rights have been neglected traditionally by tourism could be that they used the design of industries rather than that of a system since industries create a design where the relationship is all about the servant and the manager. In 1978, John Fowles wrote that tourism had had a triple blasphemy against human rights and nature. The other relationship is that tourism often becomes the gratification of themselves at the expense of the other individuals and communities. Tourists violate the rights of individuals who are in their destination areas. In the industries, the employees’ rights are violated even by the employer when the tourists are around.
The changing views of yesterday VS today’s approach to the issues
Tourism concern is very keen to open a dialogue with all industries stakeholders, whether small or large. The dialogue is about taking human rights accordingly in the field of tourism. As per human rights, tourism will be required to think both in terms of their “sphere of influence,” limiting human rights such as human trafficking and exploitation of children and change to ‘sphere of responsibility.” This will help the companies seek direct and transparency engage with those who have been affected, including the societies in the destinations to address particular impacts so that they can be understood. We get that when tourism considered the rights of communities in destinations, many companies have worked towards business responsibilities to respect human rights.
References
Genç, V., & Önver, M. S. (Eds.). (2018). Issues in Tourism, Human Rights & Sustainable Environment. IJOPEC PUBLICATION.