ABSTRACT
The moral nature of tourism has become far more complex than it was in the time of the early anthropologists and sociologists who studied encounters between hosts and their tourist guests far away from the hubs of the Western way of life. Today, attention is paid increasingly to the ethics of being-with, being-alongside, and engaging in mobile neighbouring with everyone and everything that exists. Agency is no longer attributed to human beings only – it extends to all forms of life and matter. Subsequently, nature is no longer a mere setting and a background for recreational tourist activities, or even a matter of scientifically measuring the impacts of tourism on natural environments. In short, the problems caused by tourism have become more and more practical and philosophical.
