Tourism is an important social phenomenon, exerting great influence on society and social phenomena. The number of tourists today is nearing one billion,
as every sixth inhabitant of the globe is classified as a tourist, and together they are often referred to as "the travelling humanity". Ethics in tourism influences the overall quality of a society.
Ethics is an important element of tourism and the hotel and catering industry, unified under the term Hospitality Industry. The very term ‘Hospitality’ implies welcome, friendliness, comfort, security, openness, communicativeness and kindness. The aim of the Hospitality Industry is to please people, to give them the sense of well-being that everybody wants. This is what connects this industry and ethics as defined by Aristotle, who classified the issue of ethics as practical philosophy, investigating the activities of people and their tendency to pursue happiness and satisfaction.