This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect and aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between animals, tourists and the tourism industry.

Acknowledgments 1. Kevin Markwell: Birds, Beasts and Tourists: Human-Animal Relationships in Tourism Part 1: Ethics and Welfare 2. David Fennell: The Status of Animal Ethics in Tourism: A Review of Theory 3. Georgette Leah Burns: Animals as Tourist Objects: Ethically Reinforcing Relationships between Tourism and Wildlife 4. Kate Bone and Jane Bone: The Same Dart Trick: The Exploitation of Animals and Women in Thailand Tourism 5. Stephen Wearing and Chantelle Jobberns: From 'Free Willy' to Sea World: Has Ecotourism Improved the Rights of Whales? 6. Brent Lovelock: Troubled Shooting: The Ethics of Helicopter-Assisted Guided Trophy Hunting by Tourists for Tahr Part 2: Conflict, Contradiction and Contestation 7. James Higham and Katja Neves: Whales, Tourism and Manifold Capitalist Fixes: New Relationships with the Driving Force of Capitalism 8. Jeffrey Ventre and John Jett: Killer Whales, Theme Parks and Controversy: An Exploration of the Evidence 9. Carlie S. Weiner: Dolphin Tourism and Human Perceptions: Social Considerations to Assessing the Human-Dolphin Interface 10. Erik Cohen: Young Elephants in Thai Tourism: A Fatal Attraction 11. Outi Ratamaki and Taru Peltola: Drama over Large Carnivores: Performing Wildlife Tourism in a Controversial Space 12. David Newsome: Conflicts between Cultural Attitudes, Development and Ecotourism: The Case of Bird Watching Tours in Papua New Guinea 13. Muchazondida Mkono: 'Eating the Animals You Come to See': Tourists' Meat-Eating Discourses in Online Communicative Texts Part 3: Shifting Relationships 14. R. Harvey Lemelin: From the Recreational Fringe to Mainstream Leisure: The Evolution and Diversification of Entomotourism 15. Fernanda de Vasconcellos Pegas : From Dinner Plate to T-Shirt Logo: The Changing Role of a Flagship Turtle Species in One of Brazil's Most Popular Tourism Destinations 16. Jeffrey C. Skibins: Ambassadors or Attractions? Disentangling the Role of Flagship Species in Wildlife Tourism 17. Ulrike Gretzel and Anne Hardy: Pooches on Wheels: Overcoming Pet-Related Constraints through Rving 18. Kevin Markwell: Exploited Elephants and Pampered Pets: Reflecting on Tourism-Animal Relationships Index