Sponsorship, Sports and Ethics
September 19, 2012
The 2012 Olympics and Paralympics have raised issues of ethics and sponsorship of sports. Some of us have quite set critical views, e.g.: ‘There is already far too much sport, and sponsorship only encourages media saturation of these banal activities at the expense of artistic, intellectual or economic flourishing’. For others ‘Sponsorship of sports …
‘Getting away from it all’: further reflections on responsible tourism
June 12, 2012
….In the last holiday blog I mentioned that tourism, even ostensibly responsible forms of ‘spending time away’, embodies certain tensions and contradictions. One question posed was: 1. To what extent can tourism be responsible for the environment when most holidays involve flights to foreign destinations, and require comparatively high usage of resources? This excerpt fleshes …
‘Getting away from it all’: reflections on responsible tourism
April 19, 2012
Its that time of the year again! The overindulgence of Christmas is but a distant memory. New Years’ dieting resolutions have become derailed by an ‘unholy’ binge on Easter Eggs and golden chocolate bunnies (you know which ones I mean, greedy!). Outside the blossom is bursting, the temperatures are up (more or less) and the …
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