Description
Book SynopsisGender and Tourism: Challenges and Entrepreneurial Opportunities adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, building on a historically informed, future-focused research agenda that accounts for the needs and concerns of contemporary policy makers and practitioners in the tourism field.
The collection is structured in two parts, with the first part collecting chapters that analyze the key factors of female entrepreneurship in the tourism sector, the participation of women at leading, decision making positions worldwide, the potential of female business development in both global and local terms and the main inhibitors for their under representation in top managerial key positions. The second part includes chapters that investigate, through significant case studies, which is the most appropriate governance and management model to be implemented in the context of gender and tourism.
Gender and Tourism is the result of reflections on researches of different nationalities and provides a comprehensive collection of new insights for traditional paradigms, approaches and methods, as well as exploring more recent developments in research methodology in the context of gender and tourism studies.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Female Entrepreneurship in Tourism; Marco Valeri and Vicky Katsoni
Chapter 2. Gender Equality and Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership in Tourism: A Systematic Review; Anna Kourtesopoulou and Efthalia Chatzigianni
Chapter 3. Cruise Tourism, Gender and Sustainability; Evangelia Kasimati and Vincenzo Asero
Chapter 4. Senior Customer Satisfaction in Hospitality: Drivers and Challenges by Gender; Veronika Rudchenko and Natalia Volkova
Chapter 5. Gender Based Violence and Gender Impacts in Tourism; Y. Mpu and E.O. Adu
Chapter 6. Understanding the Experiences of Rural Women in Sustaining Tourism Enterprises; Godfrey Makandwa, Saskia de Klerk, and Andrea Saayman
Chapter 7. Solo Female Travellers: The Underlying Motivation; Ilinka Terziyska
Chapter 8. Gender Differences: Perceived Tourism Impacts and Tourism Development Support; Daniela Soldić Frleta
Chapter 9. Women leadership in the Jordanian Hospitality Sector: Obstacles and Future Opportunities; Obaida Hasanat, Jebril A. Alhelalat, and Marco Valeri
Chapter 10. The Gender Dimension in Secondary Vocational Tourism Education; Anthi Gousiou and Dimitrios Lagos
Chapter 11. Corporate Climate and Glass Ceiling in the Hospitality Industry: The Women’s Point of View; Theodoros Stavrinoudis, Leonidas Maroudas, Maria Doumi, Anna Kyriakaki, and Eleni Vlassi
Chapter 12. The Development of Medical Tourism in Greece Through the Provision of Specialized Health Services for Women; Anastasios Thomaidis and Dimitrios Lagos
Chapter 13. The Role of Female Entrepreneurship to the Development of Agritourism in Greece; Panoraia Poulaki, Maria Lagou, and Marco Valeri
Chapter 14. Female Entrepreneurship and Tourism in Lebanon; Miriam Aziz, Sarah Clifft, and Laura Salloum
Chapter 15. Female Entrepreneurship in the Tourism Sector: The Case of Greece; Panagiota Dionysopoulou and Eftychia Christina Aivaliotou
Chapter 16. The Practice of Triple Bottom Line in the Sustainability of Tourism: A Gender Perspective; Vorakarn Chalermchaikit and Metin Kozak
