Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia and her research interests include tourist and guest behaviour, with a passionate focus on women, families and young children.Paolo Mura is Senior Lecturer at Taylor’s University, Malaysia and his research interests focus on tourist behaviour, gender, young tourists, deviant behaviour on holiday and ethnographic approaches to research.

• 1. Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore and Paolo Mura: Introduction: The Embodiment of Gender and ‘Asianness’ in Tourism2. Elaine Chiao Ling Yang and Paolo Mura: Asian Gendered Identities in Tourism3. Elaine Chiao Ling Yang and Rokhshad Tavakoli: “Doing” Tourism Gender Research in Asia: An Analysis of Authorship, Research Topic and Methodology4. Lim Tau Sian and Paolo Mura: Asian Gendered Performance in Tourism5. Karun Rawat and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore: The Impact of Masculinities in Researcher-Respondent Relationship: A Socio-Historical Perspective6. Eunice Tan and Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar: The Asian Female Tourist Gaze: A Conceptual Framework7. Roksana Badruddoja: “Home” as a Mobile Cultural Diaspora: South Asian American Women and the Conceptualisation of Holidays in America8. Rokhshad Tavakoli: My Journeys in Second life: An Autonetnography9. Paolo Mura and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore: Conclusion

This is a timely, if not long overdue, compilation of chapters furthering the work on gender and tourism. Much of the research on gender and tourism has, too often, centred on Western perspectives. Thus this book fills a significant gap, through its deliberate focus on Asia, including Asian authors and voices, and highlighting the complexities of gender from an Asian-centric point of view.