Tourism, World Heritage and Local Communities: An Ethical Framework in Practice at Angkor

Ethical decision-making processes seek to facilitate informed, reflective and deliberative choice of best action and outcomes which take account of decision maker and stakeholder values and principles whilst responding to contextual circumstance. However, in practice, conflicting perceptions or ranking of values as well as external pressures can obscure a clear view of ‘what to do?’ Nowhere is this challenge more apparent than at World Heritage sites with both mass tourism and living resident local communities.