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This collection of articles, books and reports on gender and tourism represents pivotal research and thinking. Deepen your understanding of gender equality, find research and stats to reference, and discover strategies for transforming the industry.
February 2024
Magdalena Petronella (Nellie) Swart, Wenjie Cai, Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Albert Nsom Kimbu
This comprehensive handbook delves into the multifaceted dimensions of the role of gender in tourism, spanning education, research, and practice. With 40 international contributions from leading thinkers in the field, it brings together diverse themes such as entrepreneurship, mobility, sustainability, and sexuality.
March 2023
UNWTO
UNWTO commissioned a study to explore how gender issues and women’s empowerment are integrated into national tourism policies and strategies. This snapshot publication provides an overview of the study of 70 publicly-available strategies and offers recommendations to policymakers for achieving ‘gender-transformative’ tourism policies.
August 2022
Angela B. Kalisch and Stroma Cole
Exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics.
Feb 2022
UNWTO
The “Gender Inclusive Strategy for Tourism Businesses” contains tools to support private sector tourism enterprises of all types and sizes achieve effective and consistent strategies and programmes for gender equality across their operations.
April 2021 Alba Sud Editorial
Núria Abellan Calvet, Carla Izcara Conde, Alejandra López Ballart, Marta Salvador Almela
The report comprehensively reviews the current landscape of research concerning the gendered dynamics of different aspects of the tourism labour market, such as glass ceilings, the imposition of aesthetic standards for women and sexual harassment. It uses case studies which exemplify these issues in global contexts.
December 2020
Kania Mezariani Guzaimi, Wahyu Wagiman, Vita Rachim Yudhani. Chapter by Dr. Stroma Cole
August 2020
Paola Vizcaino, Heather Jeffrey, Claudia Eger. Forward written by Dr. Stroma Cole
Gender based violence (GBV) in travel and tourism is embedded within wider social structures of gender inequalities and discrimination. This book focuses on the multiple and interconnected manifestations of violence that women and girls encounter in tourism consumption and production, such as physical, sexual, emotional or socio-economic abuse. Read the foreword written by Dr Stroma Cole or find the full publication here.
July 2020 Journal of Tourism Analysis: Revista de Análisis Turístico
Cristina Figueroa-Domecq, Mónica Segovia-Perez
The paper aims to present a conceptual model that identifies and relates the different approaches and thematic areas in the research area of tourism and gender.
Dec 2019 UNWTO
UNWTO has joined forces with UN Women, the German Development Agency GIZ, World Bank and Amadeus to produce the “Global Report on Women in Tourism, second edition”. The report compiles the latest statistical data and in-depth examples of good practice to illustrate the contribution tourism is making towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 – Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering all Women and Girls.
March 2019
Daniela Morena Alarcon and Stroma Cole
Journal of Sustainable Tourism. Volune 27, 2019. pp903-919
This paper explores the interconnections between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and tourism from a gender perspective. It is the first paper to take a critical analysis of how SDG 5 relates to tourism, and how tourism and gender equality interconnects with the other SDGs.
2019
Minderoo Foundation’s Walk Free Initiative, WikiRate, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Australian National University
This publication reviews the statements made by the UK hotel sector regarding the Modern Slavery Act. It aims to document the impact of new legislative acts and how companies have responded to them. By doing so, this study aims to provide a tool to improve the effectiveness of legislation and advance business practices.
March 2019 Annals p79-91
Inês Carvalho, Carlos Costa, Nina Lykke, Anália Torres
This article considers how Acker’s (1990, 2012) framework of gendering processes can be a tool for the analysis of women managers’ careers in tourism organisations. Twenty-four women top-level managers in hotels and travel businesses were interviewed.
2018 Tourism Review
Heather L. Jeffrey
This conceptual paper aims to contribute to the extant tourism and gender literature by highlighting a tendency towards the conceptualisation of gendered research participants as host or guest depending upon their nationality.
2018
Cole, S. (Ed.)
To hear Stroma Cole talk about the recently published book “Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment”, which she edited, and recount some of the personal stories featured within it, watch this clip on YouTube.
To give you a flavour of the contents of this book, download the first Chapter
2018
Equality in Tourism
In 2013, Equality in Tourism published its first report on women in the boardrooms of the tourism industry. Five years on, this report revisits the data to assess the progress. The following report presents research and analysis, together with recommendations for the implementation of change.
2018 Atna Journal of Tourism Studies
Priyakrushna Mohanty, Anu Chandran
Nov 2017 Annals p14-24
Dr. Stroma Cole
Framed in feminist political ecology, this paper presents an intersectional analysis of the gender-water-tourism nexus. Based in an emergent tourism destination, Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, it goes beyond an analysis of how women bear the brunt of burdens related to water scarcity, and examines which women and why and how it affects their daily lives.
2017
Daniela Moreno Alarcón, Equality in Tourism
Transforming Tourism 2030 Agenda is a tool that rethinks sustainable development at social, economic and environmental levels. Goal 5 is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This document details tangible ways forward and the challenges that may be faced.
2017
International Labour Office
These guidelines establish general principles and a policy framework intended to direct efforts towards attaining decent work, socially responsible tourism, and complete and productive employment for the tourism industry. This approach promotes sustainability and assists in fulfilling the SDGs.
Jan 2017 EIGE
This publication was prepared under the gender mainstreaming programme of the European Institute for Gender Equality. It constitutes the integral part of EIGE’s Gender Mainstreaming Platform.
July 2016 UNITE HERE Local 1
USA statistics indicate that the hospitality industry has the highest incidence of sexual harassment. UNITE HERE Local 1 conducted a survey of 487 women to gain a broader understanding of the extent to which women in Chicago’s hospitality industry experience sexual harassment from guests. The union also wanted to learn from women themselves what might make them feel safer on the job.
Jan 2017
Lauren N. Duffy , Carol S. Kline, Rasul A. Mowatt, H. Charles Chancellor
The purpose of this study is to explore the ways in which the employment of women in the tourism industry has challenged or reinforced the traditional machismo–marianismo gender ideology in the Dominican Republic.
2013
Equality in Tourism
Our findings suggest that the tourism industry is failing to promote women to the highest levels of decision making despite having a larger pool of female talent from which to draw. In this report we set out our findings over four key sectors of the tourism industry, both in the UK and internationally.
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