Ethics and Governance in Tourism: A Case Study of P&O Cruise in Vanuatu

Ethics and governance in tourism
Determination and discussion about the major ethical and governing
problems implemented in the Broken Dream Video of Vanuatu.
Vanuatu is situated in the South Pacific Ocean and a nation of pacific islands. The nation was
first captured by the Melanesian people but the people who came first in the island were from
Spain and Portugal. The population of that island is just, 250,000 and rarely comes in the
front pages of international media with their problems. This island mainly attracts tourists for
its eye catching scenic beauty. According to Vanuatu’s constitution, the speaker of parliament
takes all presidential powers and duties while the president is in abroad; He also takes the
responsibility to judge any kind of crime. Vanuatu had political structure which was designed
according to the skeleton of constitutional democracy. Their constitution provides a
representative parliamentary system. The Governmental Executive power and Legislative
power are taken under government and parliament. The constitutions had implemented the
political structure of republic and controlled by the president with collaboration to the
election result by the two third majorities of an electoral college. The main issue is that the
cruise ships which visits Vanuatu has increase the growth of the people of that island as they
think that it will bring a huge amount of prosperity as in this Pacific island, a cruise ship with
full of tourist or visitors in a regular basis should be the way to be rich in terms of economic
growth mainly. But the people of Vanuatu did not receive any kind of facilities which were
allotted by the government. The government system of Vanuatu is a multiparty system.
Vanua’aku party had divided into smaller parties and mainly they formed the land and justice
party. The invention of the party mainly happened on the basis of strong identity among local
people. The major political problems that were faced by the people of that place were foreign
investments, the customary land rights, development of infrastructures, recognition of natural
disasters along with the changes in climate and corruption, protection of nation and lack of
stability. As a result of these, people are not living successfully in that place. It is a challenge
for the political economy to develop the pursuit of public welfare and the expense of personal
interests. So the Government should check these problems to give them a better lifestyle
(Fennell, 2015).
Justification of the ethical effects of P&O Cruise in this case.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company is one of the former cruise lines in
the world and denoted as P&O cruise. It was the world's first commercial passenger ship of
the early 19th century. Port Vila is the capital of Vanuatu which is a Pacific nation consisted
of 80 islands and is surrounded by a number of lagoons and tranquil beaches. The
Government planned port or jetty’s services to fulfil their necessities, but the ferry service
was not so helpful for them. The cruise ships which visited Vanuatu helps to provide the
basic need by using which they should have bought wealth and success in their life. But they
were very little benefitted. Most of the ferry services were expensive and unreliable in this
prospect which also refers to the ethical effects of this particular cruise company. They could
match the calculation of the total amount of money. The dollars which they earned from the
foreigners, most of the part is used for betterment of their land. They could not find any
answer of that problem.( Moscardo and Benckendorff, 2015) They set up little stores which
gave them extra money, and also to find out what actually is going wrong with these cruise
ship. They thought someone is stealing their money and earning money in a negative way.
People of Vanuatu are often gone to port Villa for their personal work and for their office
purpose. So they thought that the problems are arising from there. It was really very difficult
for them to find out the main culprit for this cruise case which will have a great impact in the
economy of Vanuatu. This type of act was not justifiable for this famous Navigation
Company. Tourism is the only way of earning money; they were so helpless for this incident.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the former cruise line set the
tourism business in Vanuatu which is the one of the main way of living in this island as the
people of this island has no particular occupation because of increasing change of climate &
land of this island. At this state the business in terms of tourism is the only faith of the people
of Vanuatu which is basically depends on the cruise ship company that is P&O. But the
earning or the profit is not properly used in the growth of this people which also includes the
government of that place & technically depends on the cruise ship company also which is
also termed as ethical effects of P&O cruise ship in this particular case.
The responsible for rectifying the identified issued and the explanation for
the reason.
Anti-money laundering of Vanuatu and the counter-terrorism financing regime and its
enforcement were mutually appraised by Asia Pacific Group on the Money Laundering
(“APG”) in 2006. It was identified that, Vanuatu was deficient in some fundamental FATF
Standards. However, a fraud political environment, unavailability of resources, and no such

significant progresses were not made since 2007 to 2015. Vanuatu was found ‘partially
compliant’ or ‘non-complaint’ with some 30 FATF Standards. This standard is also related to
the tourism & the cruise ship as well in terms of fixing problems which are associated with
the issues that generates from visitors mainly. As a result, Vanuatu was sublimed in the APG
to the FATF for consideration. Government from Independence to till the date was very
reluctant regarding the issues that have been arisen & the money come from the tourism
business by the cruise ship is also not properly used by the local government of this place .
There were only 12 good years. The Government told the people of Vanuatu that they will
provide better opportunity for them but they did not keep their word (Cornelissen, 2017). The
government strongly emphasizes that all financial institutions and other stakeholders must
stand for these legislatives and policy directions, and must also work with the government to
solve these international requirements. All of these jurisdictions are required to take
responsibilities for their mutual evaluations and improvement on their anti-money laundering
and counter-terrorism financing administration. Vanuatu’s police forces also have been
employed to look after this case based the business of tourism of the cruise ship which brings
a lot of visitors. The government should take the authority to enhance the anti-money
laundering, counter-terrorism financing related legislatives, strengthen for its institutional
framework, improved its national coordination between law enforcement agencies, judicial
institutions and supervisory authorities and access transparent cooperation with foreign
enforcement agencies .Following this way this problem can be rectified & it will be helpful to
be more focused in the prospect of tourism.
Discussion about the ways that Australian and/or Vanuatu’s governments
could have in resolving identified issues.
The Government of Vanuatu's (GoV) plan and reform agenda, as circulated through the
Priority Action Agenda 2006–2015, (PAA) which was replaced by the National Sustainable
Development Plan (NSDP), Planning Long Acting Short 2013–2016 (PLAS), Justice and
Community Services Sector Strategy (JCSSS), and Vanuatu Police Force Strategic Plan. The
aim of that agenda was mainly to maintain Vanuatu’s priorities and recourses which is
directly associated with the tourist cruise ship. The Government of Vanuatu has designed a
new strategy which was Stretem Rod Blong Jastis mo Sefti (SRBJS) (Wearing et. al., 2015).
Through SRBJS, or Vanuatu-Australia Policing and Justice Program, the Government of
Australia (GoA) will provide support to Vanuatu’s people for improvising policing, justice