Gender Perspectives

Abstract

The travel business is an extensively engaging sector, and it is quite a paradox to see how tourism businesses play a leadership role within the industry and in the business community. This chapter aims to precipitate and reflect on the nature of tourism employability and examine the gender space and women employability for inclusive tourism development. This chapter examines varied aspects affecting the tourism industry and addresses economic resilience building. The significance of the gender parity revolves around the dynamic capacities related to the women in the private business space in the hospitality sector. This chapter indicates how women-centric employee engagement is attained in a globalized world. The gender-centric perspective and the women empowerment in the hospitality business are assessed.

Gender and Age in the Travel Choice by Spanish Travel Agency Consumers

“…Research on the influence of gender in the tourism sector has mainly focused on aspects related to gender consumption and how the travel of men and women qualitatively differs [10], discrimination against women [11], gender-based job insecurity [12], gender inequality in occupying managerial and technical positions [13], gender wages [14], women's role in local tourism development [15], gender stereotypes and sexist attitudes in the context of tourism [16], or women's economic empowerment [17], among others. Research in the tourism sector has highlighted the importance of examining travelers' interests from a gender perspective and despite women being significant participants in the tourism industry, they are still under-represented [18]. In this sense, existing tourism research related to understanding travelers' interests from a gender perspective, considered fundamental in terms of tourism marketing in the subsector of travel agencies, is limited and virtually unexplored [19][20][21].…”