Conceptualizing the tourism ethics of tourists

• Main Authors: Huang, Po-Hsien, 黃柏憲
• Other Authors: Lin, Jo-Hui
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59989272830976760176

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 觀光休閒管理研究所 === 102 === Globally, tourism has become one of fastest pacing economy activities. The number of people travelling grows over the past year, countries spare efforts to promote and develop tourism industry. Because of the reduction of earth resources and the potential destruction of ecological environment, people started to pay more attention to sustainable development of recreation resources. The ethical issues of tourism industry was be gradually emphasized. The porpose of this study aims to explore and conceptualize the meanings of tourists’ ethic. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 discussed and confirmed the demensions and categories of tousists’ tourism ethic, using document analysis and content analysis method. Study 2 explored the meaning of tourists’ ethic with an in-depth interview approach. The results of research show that the ethic of tourists including four demensions: social culture - attitude, social culture - behavior, environmental resource - attitude and environmental resource- behavior. The findings can provide suggestions for travel agencies or tourism industry how to educate and interpret the tourists, and provide references for the future researches and establish tourists’ concept of environment-friendly, and then to perform spontaneously responsible tourism behaviors.