Gender and Tourism

Challenges and Entrepreneurial Opportunities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Gender 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-09-13
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt587 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagEmerald Publishing Limited
ISBN9781801173230

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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