Course Description & Objectives:
- The nature of ethics/morality; good versus evil; right versus wrong; normative ethics and meta ethics; key concepts in ethics, freedom and responsibility, justice and equality and duty.
- The nature of morality based on reason and morality based on community, morality and conventions.
- The nature and characteristics of a profession; personal versus professional ethics; ethical issues in tourism industry (clientele ethics, work place ethics, environmental ethics, etc),
- comparative study of professional ethics in various professions,
- The nature and characteristics of a code of conduct;
- Codes of conduct and their relationship to ethic; code of conduct for tourism professionals.
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