Culture and Communication in Thailand (Communication, Culture and Change in Asia)

Chapter 9 Elephants in Tourism. Sustainable and Practical Approaches to Captive Elephant Welfare and Conservation in Thailand Ab ...

9.2 An Anthropocentric History............................. Traditionally, a highly valued species that has lived alongside Thai ...

Elephants in the tourism industry generally provide three services: direct inter- action with tourists, entertainment, and demon ...

A common misconception about captive elephants used in Thailand’s tourism industry is that the elephant is a domesticated animal ...

9.4 Elephant Tourism and Conservation....................... Thailand’s total elephant population has drastically decreased with ...

9.5 Plight of the Mahout................................... Since the cultural status of elephants has decreased and replaced wi ...

Animals (PETA) launched the issue of animal welfare in Thailand’s tourism industry when they received a video of a young elephan ...

9.7 Toward Sustainable Solutions............................ Though the use of elephants in any form of tourism-related work is ...

compromised elephant welfare in tourism entertainment. This type of ecotourism model benefits elephants, mahouts, local villager ...

leaves what constituted“cruelty”open to interpretation. This leads to questioning of how the law will be enforced and how it can ...

for illegal activities; welfare laws must be made clear and rigorously enforced; mahouts must endure training to promote elephan ...

Winkler, B., & Creative, P. (2015).Creating awareness & respect for elephants. Tourism cares (online) Mahouts Elephant F ...

Index A Achievement-task orientation, 62 Advertisement, 13 , 24 , 45 , 43 , 103 Amnaj/Power, 99 Amoral power, 54 , 56 , 65 Anatt ...

Femininity, 38 , 39 , 62 Five aggregates (Panca-khandha), 26 Five Freedoms for Animal Welfare, 129 Five hindrances, 105 Fortune- ...

Postcolonial globalization, 2 , 3 Power distance, 62 Proto-globalization, 1 , 2 , 40 , 74 R Rape, 37 , 43 , 45 Rattanakosin, 5 R ...