Young tourists, gender and fear on holiday

Mura, Paolo; Khoo‐Lattimore, Catheryn

doi:10.1080/13683500.2011.628013

Cited by 9 publications

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“…These accounts reflect an increasing awareness of the non-heterosexual orientations in Asian societies and further support the understanding that sexual risk is far less an arousal-induced risk but a manifestation of the power and dominance of the hegemonic masculinities over the others, which include the feminine and the "less" masculine (Brownmiller, 1975;Sivakumaran, 2005). This finding adds ramifications to existing understanding of risk and gender in tourism where the gender differences in risk are often discussed as a dichotomous concept, neglecting the effect of risk on multiple femininities and masculinities along the gender and sexual orientation spectrums (Mura & Khoo-Lattimore, 2011). Accordingly, future research is encouraged to explore the risk perception of solo travellers with different gender identities and sexual orientations.…”

Section: A Multidimensional Gendered Riskmentioning

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Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

2018

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In response to the emergence of the solo female travel market in Asia, this study explores how Asian women perceive and negotiate the risks of travelling alone and the meanings of these processes. The lived experiences of 35 solo female travellers from 10 East and Southeast Asian countries were analysed using constructivist grounded theory.The findings reveal that Asian solo female travellers were concerned about gendered (e.g. sexual assault and street harassment) and racialised (e.g. discrimination and social disapproval) risks, which imply the unequal power relations underpinning the gendered and racialised tourism space. The findings also reveal evidence where gender intersects with race in amplifying and constructing Asian women's perception of risk. The study demonstrates how Asian solo female travellers gained empowerment and experienced self-transformations through negotiating the risks and further reveals how these individual transformations may extend to social transformations at a micro level in an Asian context.

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Section: A Multidimensional Gendered Riskmentioning

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Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

2018

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“…It has also been noted in fear-related studies that the concept of fear can be split into five main categories of risk, namely, political, environmental, health, planning and property. Overall, analyses of the concept have highlighted that, in the context of travel and tourism, fear is associated with several different factors, including fear of crime, of travelling and flying and of diseases (Dolnicar, 2005b;Fennell, 2017;Korstanje, 2011;Leung et al, 2018;Mawby, 2000;Mizrachi and Fuchs, 2016;Mura and Khoo-Lattimore, 2012).…”

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Tourophobia: fear of travel resulting from man-made or natural disasters

Çakar¹

2020

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how crises impact overall tourist behaviour and travel preferences in times of crisis events, both man-made and natural disasters. In doing so, the present paper has been designed to provide a new conceptualization of travellers’ shifting preferences in terms of the selection of holiday destinations through the new concept of tourophobia and to classify this as a new type of tourist behaviour. Design/methodology/approach The present study uses a literature review as a qualitative deductive content analysis of 58 field studies published by major hospitality and tourism journals. By using a deductive content analysis approach, the current paper is designed to delineate tourist behaviour through a generic review of relevant literature detailing travellers’ preferences in times of crisis. Findings The developed concept of tourophobia and the suggested model, which proposes two possible scenarios, shows that traveller behaviour is heterogeneous in terms of the destination selection process; this finding is based on a content analysis of the articles chosen. Further, by using the developed model, the decline in travel and tourism can also be explained by an increase in what is termed in this paper “tourophobia”, which results from the various devastating effects of crises. Research limitations/implications The proposed model is expected to help destination managers and marketers to segment and forecast the future market demand of tourist travel preferences, thereby enabling them to form effective marketing strategies and increase their responsiveness during difficult times. Only articles from hospitality and tourism journals were subjected to content analysis; this is a major limitation of the study. Originality/value The present research contributes to current knowledge by describing the concept of tourophobia as a tourist behaviour in times of crisis. As an emerging phenomenon, it is also introduced as being one criterion for the selection of destinations and, therefore, is regarded as a driver for tourist behaviour, thus generating the originality of the paper. This study strives to provide a new direction for future studies on tourist behaviour, rather than offering new empirical data.

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“…How tourists perceive risk will affect their travel decisions such as destination selection and itinerary planning, be they positive or otherwise. The existing literature has generally agreed that tourists tend to avoid destinations with greater perceived risks (Batra, 2008; Law, 2006; Sönmez et al., 1999), although a number of studies have found that some tourists would intentionally seek to participate in risky activities and visit risky destinations (Dickson and Dolnicar, 2004; Fuchs et al., 2013; Mura and Khoo-Lattimore, 2011). The disagreement on risk perception and travel decision merits further investigation.…”

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Tourists' risk perception of risky destinations: The case of Sabah's eastern coast

Yang

Sharif

Khoo‐Lattimore

2015

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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This study investigates tourists' risk perception towards a risky destination. The eastern coast of Sabah, Malaysia was chosen as the study site for its recent high-risk status as a result of a series of abductions and political turmoil. Using t-test and partial least squares-structural equation modelling analysis, the impacts of travel experience, prior experience with risk, travel motivation, novelty preference, gender, age, and nationality on tourists' risk perception were examined. The results of this study indicate that tourists do perceive Sabah's eastern coast to be high risk but this negative perception of Sabah's eastern coast as a marine destination does not affect their perception of other coastal areas in Malaysia -tourists remain optimistic of other coastal areas within Malaysia. The effects of various determinants on risk perception are reported. The study has provided timely analysis and implications to the tourism industry in Sabah, which can also serve as a reference to destinations with similar risk background.

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Young tourists, gender and fear on holiday

Cited by 9 publications

References 68 publications

Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

Tourophobia: fear of travel resulting from man-made or natural disasters

Tourists' risk perception of risky destinations: The case of Sabah's eastern coast

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