The right to the city versus the right to tourism in teleological perspective: an ethical conflict between goods

José López-González

Current Issues in Tourism, 2025, vol. 28, issue 16, 2670-2682

Abstract: This article proposes a teleological ethical approach for the analysis of the conflict between the right to the city and the right to tourism. Unlike the understanding of this conflict through a deontological lens, which is based on universal and unconditioned moral duties, a teleological perspective allows us to observe much more underlying and intricate problems that can arise in any cultural and socio-historical context of each tourist city. By taking the teleological model of the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre as a starting point, the article suggests the basis of a framework for an ethical understanding of the complexity of teleological conflicts that can appear in the pursuit of situated internal goods —sought cooperatively— and external goods —sought competitively— within and between social practices related to both rights.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2024.2379590

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