Fonte: Cuadernos de Turismo; No. 54 (2024): Julio - Diciembre; 73-97
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Resumo: In this article, in addition to showing the field of environmental policies in relation to tourism policies as an ethical space, we must take into account that the tasks of ethics are quite complex, especially in their application to the water resource. Value judgments affect, with axiological categories, all stages of the design of water policies and those related to tourism activities: specification of objectives, translation of these objectives, selection of means and instruments, etc. All this from the perspective that in the interrelation between Law, Geography, Economics, and Politics, these phenomena are complemented by what we know as the 'ethical factor', especially important in governance (although there are many specialists who separate, or try to do so, the normative and positive aspects, for example, in the practice of economic policy). It is therefore essential to include “ethical values” when designing and implementing “Water Policies” in relation to tourism activities, since the choice, the selection of values, their study and application is a task of ethics. And it is here that Rawls' theory of justice reappears; a question of notable relevance when dealing with Water Policies and Tourism Policies, since the overcoming of the utilitarian principle of well-being, replacing it with that of primary social goods, fits perfectly into the treatment of the water resource as a tourist resource, as well as the idea of maximizing well-being through distributive consideration, without ceasing to protect individual autonomy.
