Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781774636961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore; Erica Wilson

Opis

Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a fascinating look at the behavior, motivations, experiences, and needs of women as tourists and travellers, drawing on both historic and contemporary eras. Surprisingly little research has explored key issues, experiences, and opportunities in the context of women’s travel.

Spis treści

Introduction: Women and Travel, Past and Present. Historical Accounts of Women’s Travel. Women and the Tourist Gaze: Historical and Contemporary Issues for Women Traveling in Male-Dominated Public Space. Opportunity to Escape: The OE and New Zealand Women Travelers. Women’s Travel Issues and Constraints. A Time and Space of One’s Own: Women’s Resistance to the Motherhood Discourse on Family Holidays. Citizens of the World: Brazilian Women’s Performances in Independent Travel. Iranian Women Traveling: Exploring an Unknown Universe. Gendered Approaches to Studying Women’s Travel. Expanding Understanding: Using the ‘Choraster’ to Provide a Voice for the Female Traveler. Women’s Travel Narratives of Paris and the Emotional Geographies of Place. Risk Perception of Asian Solo Female Travelers: An Autoethnographic Approach. Contemporary Women’s Travel: Trends and Experiences. Independent Women Travelers’ Experiences and Identity Development through Multi-sensual Experiences in New Zealand. Travelers, Tourists, Migrants or Workers? Transformative Journeys of Migrant Women. Home Holidays as Real Holidays? Midlife Single Women’s Experiences. Women Traveling for Health Tourism: Findings from Focus Groups in Austria. Industry Perspectives. ‘Industry Highlight’: Fear and Loathing: Women Travelers and Safety in India. ‘Industry Highlight’: The Role of a Female-Only Online Hospitality Network in the Changing World of Women’s Independent Travel.

O autorze

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore holds a PhD in Consumer Behaviour from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and has worked in Malaysia, United States, and now Australia. She was a 2013/14 Fulbright Scholar with residency at the University of Florida and is now a senior lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Dr. Khoo-Lattimore’s current research interest is on tourist and guest behavior, with a passionate focus on women, families, and young children. She is also particularly interested in understanding these segments from an Asian perspective and how their travel experience and behaviors differ cross-culturally. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Tourism Review, and Anatolia. She is an executive committee member of The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) and board member of the Asia Pacific Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (APacCHRIE). She is also the founder and chair of Women Academics in Tourism (WAiT).

Erica Wilson, PhD, is Associate Professor, Deputy Head, and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Limsore, New South Wales, Australia. Her doctoral thesis (Griffith University) was an interpretive, qualitative exploration into the constraints faced by Australian solo women travelers. Erica also holds a postgraduate diploma in environmental studies (Adelaide University) and a first-class honours degree in tourism administration (James Cook University). Her scholarly publications and research interests focus on critical pedagogy and theory in tourism, gender and tourism, leisure constraints and negotiation, sustainable tourism in protected areas, and qualitative/ feminist methodologies. Erica currently sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards for Hospitality and Society, Journal of Tourism and Development, and the Annals of Leisure Research (where she was also Associate Editor and Book Reviews Editor from 2008-2015). Erica was a member of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Technical and Scientific and Advisory Committee from 2006-2015.