Ethical tourism is tourism that has no negative affects on the environment or to other people’s wellbeing, in fact it actively promotes equality amongst people living in tourist areas and help to try to support local people so that they get the benefits from tourism.
There is a lot of money in tourism but unfortunately a lot of this is eaten up by large companies organising holidays and excursions and not passing any of the profits onto the local people who are working for them.
Ethical tourism is about empowering local people to make money from tourism and having access to well paid jobs in better working conditions if employed by the larger holiday companies.
It’s also about looking after and preserving popular tourist destinations particularly sites of great historical importance, it’s based on the understanding that if we don’t care for these sites they won’t be here to enjoy in the future.