Focusing on ethical consumers, their behaviour, discourses and narratives as well as the social and political contexts in which they operate, this text provides a summary of the manner and effectiveness of their actions.

The Ethical Consumer

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Neither the tourism industry nor the tourist has responded convincingly to calls for more responsibility in tourism. Ethical consumption places pressure on travellers to manage a large number of decisions at a time when hedonic motivations threaten to override other priorities. Unsurprisingly, tensions occur and compromises are made. This book offers new insight into the motivations that influence tourists and their decision-making. It explores how consumers navigate the responsible tourism market place and provide a rich understanding of the challenges facing those seeking to encourage travellers to become responsible. Not only will the book provide an improved interpretation of the complexity of ethical consumption in tourism, but it will also offer a variety of stakeholders a deeper understanding of: the key challenges facing stakeholders in the production and consumption of responsible tourism how ethical consumers can be influenced to consume ethically the gaps in consumer knowledge and how to broaden the appeal for individuals to make more informed ethical decisions how tour operators can respond to this emerging market by innovative product development how to design informative marketing communications to encourage a greater uptake for responsible holidays how destinations can tailor their products to the ethical consumer market how destination communities and management organisations can target responsible tourists through the provision of sustainable alternatives to mass-market holiday products. Written by leading academics from all over the world, this timely and important volume will be valuable reading for ubdergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics interested in Tourism Ethics, Ethical Consumption and the global issue of Sustainability.

Managing Ethical Consumption in Tourism

An examination of humanity&#39;s quest for sustainable development over the last millennium, Gillespie&#39;s well-timed work asks what economic, social, and environmental stars must be aligned for humanity, and its ecosystems, to survive.

An examination of humanity's quest for sustainable development over the last millennium, Gillespie's well-timed work asks what economic, social, and environmental stars must be aligned for humanity, and its ecosystems, to survive.

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The Ethical Consumer - UK - July 2015

A no-holds-barred examination of 'ethical' consumerism.

The Myth of the Ethical Consumer Hardback with DVD

... The ethical consumer and myth 1 Ethical consumerism versus consumer social responsibility 9 Moving from ethical consumer to CNSR 11 2 Social consumerism in the context of corporate responsibility 16 Social consumerism and firm&nbsp;...

... from ideological schizophrenia. The consumer personality focuses on self-interest and private choice. The citizen personality focuses on the common good and the need The ethical consumer, politics, and everyday life 139.

... the ethical consumer has been colored by the wishes and hopes of those involved in the study of social consumption – wishes and hopes that are based on a cognitively simplified model of human behavior. It is because of these two factors&nbsp;...

... the ethical consumer is unclear and under- researched (Cotte, 2009). Although Harrison, Newholm, and Shaw&#39;s The Ethical Consumer (2005) focuses on small numbers of committed ethical consumers – outlining their behavior, discourses, and&nbsp;...

... the “ethical” consumer as a myth that is believed as a constructivist epistemological phenomenon (and hence non-testable) against an ontological notion of whether such a creature as an “ethical” consumer exists (which is testable). It&nbsp;...

... , and focus groups can add considerable depth to understanding how consumers behave in ways they regard as responsible, how they account 118 The Myth of the Ethical Consumer The contribution of interpretative methods to understanding CNSR.

... the ethical consumer revealed by the likes of the above surveys is truly mythical, in the sense that it is not only false but, even as a role model, appears to be unattainable and contrary to the natural tendencies of human behavior&nbsp;...

... the ethical consumer is a myth, an idealized fiction supported by neither theory nor fact. However, our goal is not to destroy the myth as a myth but to bring science to bear on those parts of the myth that can be considered&nbsp;...

... is the well-known Machiavellianism scale developed by Christie and Geis (1970). We use the MACH IV variant. Table 4.1 Product features and social attributes used in study 76 The Myth of the Ethical Consumer Ethical disposition inventory.

... acceptable responses, as 56 The Myth of the Ethical Consumer The attitude–behavior gap and its implication for measurement The four methodological flaws: incentive compatibility, comparability, inference, and context.

... the ethical consumer. Individuals are revealed to be complex choosers, capable of nuanced decisions that bear little resemblance to the simplistic models of general moral decision making in the consumer context. However, we also see&nbsp;...