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Gender equality and tourism : beyond empowerment / edited by Stroma Cole, University of the West of England, UK.

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TexteÉditeur : Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2018Date du droit d'auteur : �2018Description : 1 online resource (xiii, 150 pages) : illustrations, chartsType de contenu :

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781786394439
9781786394446

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Disponible sous un autre format : Print version:: Gender equality and tourism beyond empowerment.Classification CDD :

331.4/133 23

Classification de la Bibliothèque du Congrès :

HD5716.T64 G46 2018eb

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Dépouillement complet :

Introduction : Gender equality, and tourism : beyond empowerment / Stroma Cole -- Gender equality and tourism : the global policy context / Lucy Ferguson -- Feminist perspectives in the development of action plans for tourism / Daniela Moreno Alarc�on -- "An uneasy truth?" : female tourism managers and organizational gender equality measures in Portugal / Fiona Eva Bakas, Carlos Costa, Mar�ilia Dur�ao, In�es Carvalho and Z�elia Breda -- Tourism as empowerment : women artisan's experiences in central Mexico / Paola Vizcaino Su�arez -- Trekking to women's empowerment : a case study of a female operated travel company in Ladakh / Bel�en Mart�inez Caparr�os -- Women and tourism in the township : tourism for empowerment? / Meghan Muldoon -- Journeys of emancipation : disrupting poverty in Nepal / Wendy Hillman and Kylie Radel -- Tourism and women's rights in Tunisia / Heather Jeffrey -- Tourism entrepreneurship and gender in the Global South : the Mexican experience / Isis Arlene D�iaz-Carri�on -- Tourism, dolls and dreams : the last generation? / Hazel Tucker -- Conclusions : beyond empowerment / Stroma Cole.

Résumé : Drawing on the theme of gender equality in tourism, this book aims to identify the main obstacles to women's advancement in the tourism industry, and to discover and share successful strategies to overcome them, drawing on case studies from all over the world. Interlaced between the 12 chapters of the book are stories from women who work in tourism. The chapters and stories that make up this book explore women's stories of empowerment beyond the neoliberal conceptualizations of economic improvement, to highlight the structural inequalities that prevent true gender equality. The collection points to the slow and small changes that women are making and how women are using the transformations tourism brings to their advantage. The book has a subject index.

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Drawing on the theme of gender equality in tourism, this book aims to identify the main obstacles to women's advancement in the tourism industry, and to discover and share successful strategies to overcome them, drawing on case studies from all over the world. Interlaced between the 12 chapters of the book are stories from women who work in tourism. The chapters and stories that make up this book explore women's stories of empowerment beyond the neoliberal conceptualizations of economic improvement, to highlight the structural inequalities that prevent true gender equality. The collection points to the slow and small changes that women are making and how women are using the transformations tourism brings to their advantage. The book has a subject index.