Gender and Tourism

Marco Valeri is a senior lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the Faculty of Economics, Niccolò Cusano University, Italy. Marco holds a PhD in Strategic Management and Organizational Behaviour and is member of several editorial boards for international tourism journals as well as co-editor of several handbooks on entrepreneurship, tourism, and hospitality management.Vicky Katsoni is a Professor in e-Tourism at the University of West Attica, Greece. She holds a PhD in Tourism Marketing Management and ICT Applications in Tourism. President of the non-profit “International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism” (IACuDiT.org). Director in several European and National research projects such as Horizon 2020, Erasmus + KA2, and Cost, Vicky is also editor of 16 handbooks on tourism marketing management and member of several editorial boards of international tourism journals.

• Chapter 1. Female Entrepreneurship in Tourism; Marco Valeri and Vicky KatsoniChapter 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 AseroChapter 4. Senior Customer Satisfaction in Hospitality: Drivers and Challenges by Gender; Veronika Rudchenko and Natalia VolkovaChapter 5. Gender Based Violence and Gender Impacts in Tourism; Y. Mpu and E.O. AduChapter 6. Understanding the Experiences of Rural Women in Sustaining Tourism Enterprises; Godfrey Makandwa, Saskia de Klerk, and Andrea SaaymanChapter 7. Solo Female Travellers: The Underlying Motivation; Ilinka TerziyskaChapter 8. Gender Differences: Perceived Tourism Impacts and Tourism Development Support; Daniela Soldić FrletaChapter 9. Women leadership in the Jordanian Hospitality Sector: Obstacles and Future Opportunities; Obaida Hasanat, Jebril A. Alhelalat, and Marco ValeriChapter 10. The Gender Dimension in Secondary Vocational Tourism Education; Anthi Gousiou and Dimitrios LagosChapter 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 VlassiChapter 12. The Development of Medical Tourism in Greece Through the Provision of Specialized Health Services for Women; Anastasios Thomaidis and Dimitrios LagosChapter 13. The Role of Female Entrepreneurship to the Development of Agritourism in Greece; Panoraia Poulaki, Maria Lagou, and Marco ValeriChapter 14. Female Entrepreneurship and Tourism in Lebanon; Miriam Aziz, Sarah Clifft, and Laura SalloumChapter 15. Female Entrepreneurship in the Tourism Sector: The Case of Greece; Panagiota Dionysopoulou and Eftychia Christina AivaliotouChapter 16. The Practice of Triple Bottom Line in the Sustainability of Tourism: A Gender Perspective; Vorakarn Chalermchaikit and Metin Kozak