{"id":70619,"date":"2021-02-19T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70619"},"modified":"2021-02-19T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:19:25","slug":"new-book-examines-human-rights-issues-in-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/02\/new-book-examines-human-rights-issues-in-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"New book examines human rights issues in tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost a year of travel restrictions and stay-at-home mandates, many Canadians are looking toward a future when they might visit distant locales once again.<\/p>\n

Atsuko Hashimoto, Associate Professor in Brock\u2019s Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, hopes that before hopping on a plane, people might first consider how travel may impinge on the rights of others.<\/p>\n

To help readers understand the implications of tourism across a range of topics related to human rights, Hashimoto published Human Rights Issues in Tourism<\/em><\/a> at the end of December, following a historical year for both the tourism industry and human rights worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started writing this book, no one could have foreseen all the changes that 2020 brought,\u201d says Hashimoto. \u201cWe have seen many pro-democracy demonstrations and the rise of rights activism around the world, the number of asylum seekers increasing exponentially and a global pandemic that has, for the most part, stopped non-essential travel, or \u2018taking a holiday,\u2019 resulting in many people\u2019s rights to work being severely compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Human Rights Issues in Tourism is part of Routledge\u2019s Tourism, Environment and Development Series.<\/p><\/div>\n

Co-authored with colleagues Elif H\u00e4rk\u00f6nen of Linkoping University in Sweden and Brock Political Science alumnus Edward Nkyi (MA \u201911), the book covers a background of human rights issues related to tourism, from sustainable development goals to politics, before taking deeper dives into specific issues such as human security, displacement, discrimination, privacy, free movement, labour conditions, sex tourism, the environment and Indigenous rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the idea that tourism is a window to what is happening in society,\u201d says Hashimoto. \u201cReaders may be surprised to realize how our own behaviours are, without us noticing, hurting other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hashimoto, whose research has long focused on the empowerment of women in rural communities and other disadvantaged groups, says it\u2019s important to acknowledge the part tourists may play in the relationships that exist between globalization, tourism and human rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you imagine as an international tourist that the resort hotel you are staying in used to be a local fishing village?\u201d she says. \u201cThe villagers were removed from the area so that the hotel could be built and local access to the beach is now denied. Almost everything in the resort hotel is imported from other countries, so local suppliers benefit very little \u2014 even the traditional Indigenous souvenirs sold in the hotel have been mass produced in another country and imported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hashimoto encourages potential tourists to think of any trip they plan as a visit to someone else\u2019s home, determining if and how their visit will benefit local people and how their mode of transportation may contribute to climate change, another serious human rights issue examined in the book.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are taking a vacation for relaxation and fun, but your enjoyment should not be a burden to others,\u201d Hashimoto says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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