Labour justice and sustainable tourism: the centrality of equity as a sustainability principle

Chok, S. and Macbeth, J. (2009) Labour justice and sustainable tourism: the centrality of equity as a sustainability principle. In: BEST Education Network's Think Tank IX, 15 - 18 June, Singapore.

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Abstract

What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embeddlng as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity, This includes, among other things, social justice, The values underlying tourism development are dominated by the corporate expedient of profit and by the State concern for wealth generation, irrespective of the impacts on workers.