The seven sins of hunting tourism

Abstract

In a review of situational pressures on tourists, we identify seven sins or risk zones that induce moral disengagement and allow for behaviour that would be considered unethical by the same people when not on holiday. The context of hunting tourism reveals the following sins act cumulatively on the hunting tourist: “The Pay Effect”, “The Tourist Bubble”, “Last Chance Tourism”, “The Bucket List”, “When in Rome”, “The False Display”, and “The Saviour”. Identifying these sins and the way hunting tourists draw from them to neutralize eco-guilt are argued to be a first step on the call to set standards and practices within consumptive wildlife tourism consistent with the Precautionary Principle in tourism planning.

Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Consumer Profile of Hunting Tourism and Trophy Hunting from Tradition to Protected Areas: Study Case on Romania and Spain

“…The Romanian and Spanish hunters from the samples self-identified as individuals who respect ethics and traditions, are animals' lovers, and are responsible and cautious; therefore, these results validate the sin of neutralization of eco-guilt [63] but are practically the first step to the precautionary principle in hunting tourism planning [63]. Regarding the specific tourism activities linked to the hunting activities, 76% of Romanian hunters and 75% of Spanish hunters declare the visiting of tourism objectives and the surrounding in the hunting area and these results validates the results of Martin-Delgado et al [44] referring to the Spanish hunters in the protected area of Extremadura region [44].…”

Emerging contradictions in the enforcement of bird hunting regulations in Malta

“…The local hunting area is one increasingly characterized by distrust between stakeholders: ENGO field activities, particularly when conducted by foreigners, are held to be intrusive and quasi‐vigilante in nature; the state is held as overly pliable to hunters' plights and ineffectual in its enforcement and data‐gathering, and hunters' conservation credentials are denied. The intensification of enforcement, combined with the global reach of hunting networks, is causing the displacement of wildlife crime to countries where governance is weaker and the threat to the sustainability of bird populations consequently far greater (Tickle & von Essen, 2020).…”

“If it flies, it dies”: Profit, workplace pressure and Bird of Prey persecution

“…More recently, a paper by Tickle and Von Essen (2020) discusses the pressure to deliver for paying clients and how this consequently triggers one of several ethical or moral lapses in all those involved. Overtime, there has been an increasing tendency to assign monetary values to nature and wildlife (Bauer & Alexander, 2004).…”