Empowering Women in Local Communities Through Sustainable Tourism Initiatives
Gender and Tourism How tourism can be used to create positive change in destinations and empower women and local communities. By Willow Fasakin Nyamirambo Women’s Center, an organisation using community-based tourism to empower women and the local community According to recent data from the United Nations, only 15.4% of the indicators for Sustainable Development Goal […]
Female entrepreneurship, creating shared value, and empowerment in tourism; the neutralising effect of gender-based discrimination
Research by Bagheri et al. published in ‘Current Issues in Tourism’ journal in September 2022, sets out to investigate the interrelationship between women’s entrepreneurship, creating shared value and women’s empowerment.
Women in Tourism: Lessons Learned or Lessons Forgotten?
Our own Dr. Stroma Cole shared her wealth of knowledge in her key note presentation at the Women in Tourism Conference 2023. The event brought together academics and industry professionals focused on furthering gender equality in the tourism industry.
Travel Excellence wins award for pioneering gender equality
Travel Excellence, a Costa Rican travel operator wins the first Gender Equality Champion of the Year Award for the hospitality and tourism sector on the 8th March at ITB Berlin.
Our Associate is interviewed by TrainingAid
For International Women’s Day this year, our Associate, Charmarie Maegle was interviewed by TrainingAid to discuss the importance of gender equality in tourism. In the article, Gender Equality: Why Engaging More Women in Tourism Benefits Everyone, and How to Promote Positive Change, Maegle shares insights into the challenges and opportunities around the topic, and provides positive examples of […]
Making women’s lives better: Quezon City, Philippines
Equality In Tourism would like to recognise the Gender and Development Council Office in Quezon City in the Philippines as a “Highly Commended Participant” in the Gender Equality Champion of the Year Award to be presented at ITB Berlin 2023. Quezon is the largest and most populous city in Metro Manila, the region around the […]
Introducing our shortlist for the Gender Equality Champion of the Year Award 2023
The Gender Equality Champion Award for the tourism and hospitality sector will be presented at ITB Berlin on 8th March, International Women’s Day. Applications for the Award have now closed and our team has whittled down over 40 applicants to four shortlisters. The shortlist includes businesses that are based across three continents: ETUR – Ecuador […]
Gender Equality Champion of the Year: The significance of the Award for the gender equality movement.
Head judge Dr Stroma Cole and EiT Researcher Dr Yasmin Begum delve into the importance of the Gender Equality Champion of the Year Award and its wider impact on Gender Equality in Tourism…
Gender Equality Champion Award
Here at Equality in Tourism, we are excited to have launched the first award of its kind in the tourism sector: the Gender Equality Champion of the Year Award.
Tourism as a Driver for Promoting Gender Equality? A case Study of Participation of Women in the Tourism Labour market in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Research by Thomas Gomes and Adam Blake When this photo was taken at Cox’s Bazar, it was late in 2009, I was on a road trip around Bangladesh and a resort in Cox’s Bazar offered a few days of tranquillity against the backdrop of its vast seafront. Indeed, as records go, it can boast about […]
Coming Soon: Equality in Tourism Award
We’re excited to announce that we will soon be launching our Gender Equality in Tourism award!
RESET: Tourism, Hospitality and Travel Summit
Equality in Tourism Director, Dr Stroma Cole, speaks at the RESET Summit.
Gender Justice in tourism through the lens of feminist alternative tourism economics (FATE)
Written by Dr Angela B. Kalisch Discussions on sustainability in tourism, have tended to ignore the interdependency between tourism and the capitalist economic system determining global society. Such discussions also tend to largely ignore the importance of gender relations and power dynamics within that system. This system is historically fuelled by the wealth of colonial […]
Gender Justice in tourism through the lens of feminist alternative tourism economics (FATE)
Written by Dr Angela B. Kalisch Discussions on sustainability in tourism, have tended to ignore the interdependency between tourism and the capitalist economic system determining global society. Such discussions also tend to largely ignore the importance of gender relations and power dynamics within that system. This system is historically fuelled by the wealth of colonial […]
Stroma to speak at the Women in Tourism Scientific Conference, hosted by The Institute for Tourism, Croatia
Equality in Tourism is proud to announce that we will be an official co-sponsor of the international Women in Tourism Scientific Conference in April 2023, hosted by the Institute for Tourism, Croatia. Director Dr Stroma Cole will be a keynote speaker in the event, exploring critical approaches to the roles and positions of women in […]
