| Title: | Ethical discourses of Airbnb animal experiences |
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| Authors: | ID Plahuta, Lea (Author)
ID Turnšek, Maja (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  MAG_Plahuta_Lea_2021.pdf (2,06 MB)
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PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/21522e78-3fa9-4a0a-9e7f-5b9c48ebd6b0
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Master's thesis/paper |
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| Typology: | 2.09 - Master's Thesis |
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| Organization: | FT - Faculty of Tourism
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| Abstract: | Animal tourism represents a large part of the tourist market. Due to its growth, the number of animals involved in tourism is also increasing, which often has a negative impact on their welfare and the preservation of the animal species. In response to the public concerns regarding the negative impacts on animal use in tourism and other areas, a number of ethical approaches have been discussed and developed. These have become the starting point for formulating the strategies, guidelines and policies of many tourism companies that use animals for tourism purposes. Among them is Airbnb, one of the leading tourism companies in the world, which in 2019, presented travel experiences that involve animals in various ways. In addition to the research of the animal experiences offered on the Airbnb online platform, the empirical part focused mainly on researching ethical discourses reflected in discussions of animal experience by both Airbnb and its animal experience providers, where we found out that both used different ethical discourses. Airbnb has represented a caring discourse based on the principle of ecofeminist approach and animal welfare discourse, the latter reflecting the involvement of a non-profit organization World Animal Protection in shaping its policies, which follow the framework of the five freedoms. The ethical discourses of the providers were also caring discourse and animal welfare discourse, with added utilitarian and ecocentric discourses. The only discourse that was not represented within the chosen ethical approaches is the animal rights discourse, which does not approve of any use of animals. |
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| Keywords: | tourism, animals, ethics, experiences |
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| Place of publishing: | Brežice |
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| Publisher: | [L. Plahuta] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2021 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-79976 |
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| UDC: | 338.484:179.3(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 86876163 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 29.11.2021 |
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| Views: | 1263 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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