Beschreibung:
Atsuko Hashimoto is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies at Brock University, Canada. Her research focuses on sociocultural, cross-cultural and human aspects of tourism, human rights and equity issues in tourism development, and issues in sustainable tourism development in rural areas. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and an MSc and PhD in Tourism Development and Management from the University of Surrey, UK. She has also worked for Tourism Canada (now Destination Canada) at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. She taught at the University of Luton (now University of Bedfordshire, UK) in the Department of Tourism and Leisure Studies before immigrating to Canada to take up a position at Brock University.
This book focuses exclusively on Human Rights issues associated with tourism development and tourism businesses. It provides a multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of human rights issues in tourism from displacement, security, privacy, freedom of movement to labour conditions.
SECTION 1 Background of human rights in tourism