Women as Producers and Consumers of Tourism in Developing Regions
Tourism has become the world's largest industry, according to the World Tourism Organization; no surprise when one considers that it incorporates the world's oldest profession. In some developing regions, such as the Caribbean or the South Pacific, tourism is the primary sector in which significant economic growth takes place. In other regions, including areas of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and formerly communist eastern Europe, tourism is just beginning to take off. In all of...
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A much-needed addition to the literature on women's role in tourism in developing regions; as valuable to women's studies as it is to the study of economic development. Booknews Cross-fertilizing concerns about the role of tourism in economic development with those about the impact of development on women, researchers in tourism, anthropology, and geography explore perspectives on gender, tourism, and development. They consider women in the mature tourist destinations of the British Virgin Island, southeast Asia, and the South Pacific; and in the less developed tourist destinations of the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and eastern Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
TablesForewordPrefacePt. IPerspectives on Gender, Tourism, and Development1Working Producers, Leisured Consumers: Women's Experiences in Developing Regions32Gender in Tourism: Theoretical Perspectives19Pt. IIWomen in the Mature Tourist Destinations3Island Is a Woman: Women as Producers and Products in British Virgin Islands Tourism474Destabilizing "Maturity": Women as Producers of Tourism in Southeast Asia735Power, Women, and Tourism Development in the South Pacific93Pt. IIIWomen in the Less Developed Tourist Destinations6Tourism Behind the Veil of Islam: Women and Development in the Middle East1137Gender, Tourism, and Development in Latin America1438The Forgotten Giant: Women's Role in Africa's Delayed Tourism Development1679From the "Iron Curtain" to the "Dollar Curtain": Women and Tourism in Eastern Europe191Pt. IVWomen and Tourism: New Directions10Women and Mountain Tourism: Redefining the Boundaries of Policy and Practice21111Gender Relations in Tourism: Revisiting Patriarchy and Underdevelopment235Index249About the Editors and Contributors257
\ BooknewsCross-fertilizing concerns about the role of tourism in economic development with those about the impact of development on women, researchers in tourism, anthropology, and geography explore perspectives on gender, tourism, and development. They consider women in the mature tourist destinations of the British Virgin Island, southeast Asia, and the South Pacific; and in the less developed tourist destinations of the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and eastern Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
