Tourism Ethical Issues

The Issue: The development of a long-term sustainable tourism, on the industry, by working together with governments, business and individuals.
Why is this considered to be an Ethical Issue: In order to determine what is ethical and what is not, we must be aware as well as define the main priorities of certain issues. Ethical thinking and the applying of its theories often play the role of limiting people´s actions whether its moral or immoral by questioning the benefits and the consequences, since the unethical decisions can lead to disastrous outcomes provoking environmental, economic and health negative outcomes, violating human rights and universal laws that are essential for human beings and the earth itself (Gabarda, Garcia & Ribas, 2017). There is a questionable relationship between sustainable tourism and ethical decision making since it easily questioned whether the actions taken to improve the planet are for environmental benefits or economic benefits for ones corporation, business or country. All concepts are to be questioned when talking about the

Under the concept of "alternative tourism" various forms of tourism are grouped together, sometimes seeking a sustainable development of the activity, but others only express the opposition to mass tourism. However, even if it is only because it is small-scale tourism, alternative forms of tourism tend to entail much less alteration in the landscape (Gabarda, Garcia & Ribas, 2017). On the contrary, there are times, when the landscape is the main value of tourism, which public institutions come to establish extreme conservationist norms, to the point of impeding the normal development of traditional activities and without understanding that humans also have a role in the ecosystem. Moreover a positive argument of the mass tourism is the growth in the countries economy, public transportation and job creation (Carrington et al,