The Dark Side Of Elephant Tourism

"The Clouded Side of Elephant The travel industry: Tending to Government assistance Concerns" is a strong investigation of the moral mess encompassing the thriving business of elephant the travel industry. With elephants customarily worshipped and profoundly implanted in different societies, their change from adored images to commodified attractions brings up significant issues about government assistance and moral treatment. This astute work dives into the authentic development of elephant the travel industry, following the underlying foundations of its fame and the resulting influence on these great animals. From social importance to financial drivers, the book carefully looks at the powers adding to the double-dealing of elephants for the travel industry purposes. The core of the story lies in figuring out the knowledge and regular ways of behaving of elephants, both in the wild and in bondage. The mental cost of imprisonment on these profoundly astute creatures is investigated, uncovering the conspicuous difference between their normal territories and the frequently binding states of vacationer arranged offices. Through convincing contextual investigations from prestigious traveler objections like Thailand, India, and Africa, the book divulges explicit occasions of government assistance infringement. It takes a gander at a basic eye on the job of nearby legislatures and guidelines, scrutinizing their viability in defending the prosperity of these delicate monsters. Moral difficulties are disentangled, convincing perusers to defy the ethical ramifications of their decisions as vacationers. The obligation of travel services and visit administrators in advancing moral the travel industry rehearses is examined, moving the business to focus on government assistance over benefit. In the midst of the obscurity, the book offers a promising sign by featuring effective preservation endeavors and models of capable elephant the travel industry. It advocates for a change in outlook towards safe-havens, local area based drives, and capable travel rehearses. The legitimate system overseeing elephant the travel industry is examined, with a call for more grounded securities and a reexamination of existing regulations.

Elephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have been developed into sanctuaries for some elephants, but many other camps were established as entertainment centres, resulting in serious welfare issues for the elephants and their mahouts. The profits from elephant tourism in Asia have encouraged African operators to follow a similar business model. This book draws attention to the need for a comprehensive and rigorous focus on local solutions to improve the welfare of captive elephants, their mahouts and local residents, and to enhance tourists' experiences of elephant tourism.

A study of elephant tourism in Nepal from its origins in the 1960s to the present day, this book examines the challenges faced by captive elephants. Used as human conveyance, on anti-poaching patrol teams, as rescue vehicles, and in forestry service, elephants have worked with and for humans for hundreds of years. However, the use of elephants in tourism is a fairly new development within Nepal. Because the health and welfare of tourism elephants is vital to the conservation of wild individuals, this book offers an assessment of captive elephant needs and an examination of their existing welfare statuses. This book seeks to examine the motivations of these NGOs and INGOs, and to consider their ethical approaches to elephant health and welfare. Are the motivations of these organizations similar enough to work together towards a common goal, or are their ethical norms so different that they get in one another's way? Using an ordinary language and ethics framework, this text aims to identify the norms of cultures and organisations and reframe them in ways which may allow for more successful interactions.

Horizon Guides’ Wild Encounters is your one-stop-guide for advice on how to see wildlife responsibly, exploring the issues facing wildlife tourism and the impact humans are having on animals.

This guide gives expert advice from wildlife conservations on the issues you may encounter when seeing animals when travelling. It explains how to spot an animal in distress, the impact of animal shows and how to see wildlife ethically.

In this guide:

• Advice on how to see animals in the wild ethically
• Information on the impact of animal shows on wildlife
• How to book ethical wildlife-watching trips
• The difference between seeing animals in the wild and captivity

How to help change the global impact of animal tourism

Our Wild Encounters guide is designed to help you make ethical decisions about how to see wildlife. Too much information can sometimes be overwhelming, so we’ll give you a general overview and help you take the first steps towards seeing animals responsibly.

This timely book introduces the tourist as a non-state actor on the international political stage. Discussing the ways in which tourism has enabled political dynamics to unfold and shape political affairs, Katerina Antoniou suggests how tourist activity can be used to foster inclusive and empowering political conduct.

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the writings and texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead, amongst the dying, and alongside the suffering, the authors give us a tour of humanity’s violence and misery. And yet, from this dark side, there comes great beauty and poignancy in the characterization of plight; creativity in the comic, graphic, and graffiti sketches and comments on life; and the sense of profound and spiritual journeys being undertaken, recorded, and memorialized.

This timely book provides a critical account of the role that animals play in the tourism industry, representing an extension of the sustainability imperative and environmental theory. Written by a leading academic and author, this volume explores the rich history of animal ethics research, both inside and outside of tourism studies, for the purpose of providing greater theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and practical guidance. It examines historical and current practices of the use of animals in the tourism industry from both in situ to ex situ consumption and production perspectives, identifying a range of ethical issues associated with such use. This second edition has been updated to reflect contemporary research and thinking around animal welfare, hunting, and consumption with new chapters on animals as food, and policy at the national and international levels. New case studies have been integrated throughout. Offering an interdisciplinary overview of the moral issues related to the use of animals in tourism through cutting-edge research, this book is essential reading for students, academics, and researchers interested in tourism ethics, sustainable tourism, and wildlife tourism.