Gender-Responsive Tourism in Cabo Verde

2009

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2014

2016

The notion of examining gender is gaining momentum across disciplines as an important phenomenon to understand (Kincheloe & Mclaren, 2008). The tourism field is one such area that has made sizeable contributions to the literature; however there is a lack of research focusing on women and tourism in developing countries. This is an exploratory case study of a rural community in Ecuador. Using community-based research methodology and a gender and development framework, this study explores the motivations, barriers and perceptions towards women seeking employment in the tourism industry and identified disparities between the perceptions of men and women in regard to the potential for women securing employment in the industry. The themes that emerged from the data may be grouped as those indicating barriers: gender role expectations, machismo, and poor education; and as motivators: economic benefits, opportunity to learn new things, purpose in life, and education for their children.

Gender equality and tourism: beyond empowerment, 2018

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.

2015

The empowerment is a much debated issue in present scenario in all walks of human life. In most developing countries, gender inequality and discrimination is a major impediment for development. In order to achieve the millennium development goals in 2015 one of the most important aspects will be, to try to abolish the gap between women and men in terms of capacities, access to resources and opportunities, and vulnerability to violence and conflict. One of the aspects in which gender (inequalities) issues can play an important role is tourism development (UNWTO, 2006). Regarding the fact that many tourism studies has a crucial link between tourism, community development and women empowerment, thus UN has committed to create an important political agenda to research and work on issues in this area. That is why the UNWTO presented an Action Plan related to women empowerment through tourism in the last ITB in Berlin. The Action Plan focuses Empowering Women through Tourism Development

2020

One of the elements that are disrupted by development is gender roles. These changes are not always negative, and the objective is to identify whether the participation of women in the fishing cooperative and the tourism project of La Isla makes it possible to build autonomy. Ever since the 90s, the Tzibanza village has been the target of a series of development projects that have included or excluded them in decision-making. However, every project impacted the organization and productive activities and their daily life. Results of an investigation still in progress are presented, which start from the qualitative approach combining quantitative information-gathering techniques: a questionnaire to cooperative members and not cooperative members; and qualitative: non-participant observation, qualitative interviews, and focus groups. The tourism production and project cooperative have operated for just over 20 years with relative success in income, job creation, and participation. Wome...

2010