ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the relationship between entomophagy and tourism. It examines ethical challenges that can result from tourism exchanges that exploit. The chapter focuses on the ethics of eating insects and current debates about insect sentience. Entomophagy, the eating of insects, rarely comes up in the tourism literature, or any literature for that matter – unless, that is, you are a reader of the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, whose sheer existence hints at the growing importance that entomophagy may hold for people rapidly changing world. In countries without such a legacy, interest has also increased. The United States has seen curiosity in bugs as a food source increase dramatically if the number of annual insect festivals held there is any indication. A major question related to entomophagy and tourism, and to tourism generally, is its exploitative potential.
