Equality in Tourism responds to UNWTO Discussion Paper on International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017
The UN World Tourism Organisation recently released a Discussion Paper on the occasion of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017, asking for comments from a range of key stakeholders in the field. Equality in Tourism submitted a detailed response, analysing the approach to gender issues taken in the paper and providing recommendations […]
Presentation on gender and tourism homestays at European Conference on Politics and Gender
Director Lucy Ferguson and Associate Sarah Becklake presented a paper at the European Conference on Politics and Gender on tourism homestays. The conference was held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 8-10th June 2017. The paper – entitled “Mothering tourists: a feminist political economy of tourism homestays in Guatemala” – explores the gendered social reproductive […]
Welcome to our new Associate Maud Kumbirayi Masiyiwa
Maud’s mission is to encourage uplifting women in Africa to key decision-making positions, transparent ownership within the tourism industry, and handing the baton over to the younger female entrants. She has widespread training and development experience with a focus on Small Micro and Medium Enterprise(SMME) development: read more here. Maud, who is Zimbabwean, grew up […]
Our Associate Shirley Randell speaks at UN HQ on Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work
Our Associate Shirley Randell was one of four speakers at the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations headquarters (CSW 61) in New York. The theme of this year’s gathering was Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work. CSW was established in 1946 with a mandate to […]
Marina Novelli on Travel and Tourism in the Age of Sustainability
Congratulations to our Associate Marina Novelli on her recent inaugural lecture at the University of Brighton on ‘Travel and Tourism in the Age of Sustainability’. Marina was recently appointed Professor of Tourism and International Development and her lecture highlighted the many practical projects on which she has worked and advised in her career so far. […]
Hazel Tucker is our latest Associate
We’re delighted to welcome Hazel Tucker to our global network of Associates. Hazel is Associate Professor in Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where she specialises in tourism’s influences on socio-cultural relationships and change. This has recently included research in Cappadicia, central Turkey, exploring issues concerning gender and women’s involvement in tourism […]
The Berlin Declaration on “Transforming Tourism”
Our Associate Rebecca Armstrong recently represented Equality in Tourism as one of over 30 civil society organisations involved in producing the Berlin Declaration on “Transforming Tourism” presented at ITB Berlin. Meeting in the UNWTO International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development and against the background of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, the […]
Our Director Stroma Cole speaks at Tourism and Social Justice Symposium at MONASH university in Melbourne
On 14 March, our Director Dr Stroma Cole was a guest lecturer at the Tourism and Social Justice Symposium at the Australia and International Tourism Research Unit at MONASH University in Melbourne, Australia. Her presentation Tourism, Water and Social Justice in Bali explored how, whilst governments and international organisations fanatically measure tourism in terms of arrival […]
Misi – tourism projects driven by local women
Misi, a small Turkish village about a two hours’ drive south of Istanbul, was losing much of its local population, heritage and future due to a variety of factors common to modern times. The traditional sericulture and silk making activities which made their village prosperous during the Ottoman era came to an end with globalization […]
Maud Masiyiwa – training and development advisor
Maud was raised in Zambia, the child of Zimbabweans who had left their native country to seek opportunities elsewhere. The family’s children were all raised to be entrepreneurial and hard-working, qualities to which Maud attributes a lot of her success. After returning to Zimbabwe in the 1980’s, Maud started to work odd jobs at a […]
Sari – scuba diving guide in Indonesia
The youngest of four children from a remote village on the island of Rinca, Indonesia, Sari always thought she would be a police officer. During middle school, she saw how tourism was growing in the nearest town and around her island and decided on a tour and travel course at the vocational high school. During […]
Evelyn’s story – tour guiding as a woman in Kenya
Evelyn is a tour guide in Kenya, a rare job for a woman in a country that despite years of progress continues to pay little more than lip service to gender equality and equal opportunities in the work place. In fact, Evelyn puts it quite bluntly when she says, “Looking at the tourist industry in […]
Neusa Goncales – owner of first woman-led tour operator in Cape Verde
Neusa was born on Sal island in Cape Verde and spent her younger years working in a variety of roles both inside and outside the tourism industry. A career which even includes a stint as a football player in the Madaira national team is exemplary of the many roles women take on to progress in […]
Priscilla’s story – from waitress to manager
Born in the Kilimanjaro district in 1976, Priscilla grew up in a rural household which placed great importance on education and progression. With encouragement from her cousin and mother, Priscilla took the daunting step of moving away from her village and starting a job as a waitress in the late ’90’s. Over the next years, […]
International Women’s Day 2017: a celebratory collection of stories
At Equality in Tourism we live for those precious moments of proof – proof that tourism can be an immense enabler, proof that women can achieve the ‘unachievable’, proof that our work brings results. And every time we meet another amazing woman with a story to tell we realise that there is still so much […]
