Tourism and Animal Welfare

"This text is long overdue and timely. Carr and Broom have placed the issues firmly in the broader context of the relationship between our species and the others which share this planet with us....As they argue it is possible for tourists and the travel and tourism sector to take and exercise responsibility to drive change, Carr and Broom's text helps us to understand the issues and the context and to make better-informed choices."

Harold Goodwin, Responsible Tourism Partnership

1. Introduction

Part 1. A conceptual and historical foundation
2. Animal sentience, ethics, and welfare
3. The position of animals in tourism
4. Animal welfare and tourism: are the aims mutually exclusive or potentially inclusive?

Part 2. Tales from the front line: Animal welfare organisations and animal tourism providers
5. Public Aquariums in the 21st Century – what’s next, before it’s too late?
6. A tale of two zoos: Tourism and zoos in the 21st century
7. A Comparison of tourism and food-provisioning among wild bottlenose dolphins at Monkey Mia and Bunbury, Australia
8. The tourism industry and shark welfare
9. Tourism, wildlife conservation and animal welfare
10. Managing tourism’s animal footprint
11. Elephants and tourism
12. Lessons from Winnie-the-Pooh: How responsible bear tourism can teach us respect and compassion, and benefit bears
13. Donkeys and mules and tourism
14. Cats and dogs international
15. Animal welfare – driving improvements in tourism attractions
16. Animal welfare and tourism: the threat to endangered species
17. Sport hunting tourism
18. Ethical hunting

Part 3: The future and moving forward together
19. The future and moving forward together

Neil Carr

Professor Neil Carr is head of the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago and a former editor of Annals of Leisure Research. His research focuses on understanding behavior within tourism and leisure experiences, with a particular emphasis on children and families, sex, and animals. Since gaining his PhD from the University of Exeter he has worked at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), University of Queensland (Australia), and most recently the University of Otago (New Zealand).

Donald M. Broom

Donald M. Broom, Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, has developed concepts and methods of scientific assessment of animal welfare and studied: cognitive abilities of animals, the welfare of animals in relation to housing and transport, behavior problems, attitudes to animals, sustainable livestock production and ethics of animal usage. He has published over 300 refereed papers and books including: Stress and Animal Welfare (2000 Springer), The Evolution of Morality and Religion (2003 CUP), Domestic Animal Behaviour and Welfare, 5th edition (2015 CABI), and Sentience and Animal Welfare (2014 CABI).