The Solo Female Travel Experience: Exploring the ‘Geography of Women's Fear’

Qualitative tourism research: Opportunities in the emergent soft sciences

“…A deliberately foregrounded feminist approach has been taken in studies of women's independent tourism (Heimtun, 2010;Jordan & Gibson, 2005;Wilson & Little, 2008), in women's holidays over the lifecourse (Small, 2005), in reflexive accounts of women tourism academics (Small, Harris, Wilson, & Ateljevic, 2011), and in critiques of dominant tourism theory/methodology (Aitchison, 2005). There remains considerable room for a broadening of feminist (and gendered) approaches within tourism studies.…”

Gutsy Women? Conflicting Discourses in Women's Travel Guidebooks

“…Valentine (1989) claims that women's own perception that they are more vulnerable to attack leads to their movements being modified and then to a restriction in using public space in desired ways. As a result, solo female travellers are caught up in the 'geography of women's fear' (Valentine 1989;Wilson and Little 2008), where use of public/ tourist spaces must always be negotiated by women in relation to their safety and security.…”

An evaluation of power relationships among stakeholders in the tourism industry networks of Agra, India

“…Snowballing was chosen as an aid to identify diverse stakeholders in the network. Interviews were designed to identify stakeholders' attitudes and experiences with respect to their relationships with other members of the networks as supported by researchers including Stampe (2008), Wilson and Little (2008) and Holden (2010). In particular, interviews allow the extra freedom of engaging in a dialogue to access enhanced levels of information (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000;Miles & Huberman, 1994;Saunders, Lewis, & Thornhill, 2009;Yin, 2003).…”