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Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a
fascinating look at the behavior, motivations, experiences, and
needs of women as tourists and travellers, drawing on both historic
and contemporary eras. Surprisingly little research has explored
key issues, experiences, and opportunities in the context of
women's travel. This revealing volume fills this gap, exploring the
discourses, debates, and discussions about women, travel, and
tourism. With an international roster of contributors from diverse
regions of the world, the book celebrates a variety of women's
voices. Khoo-Lattimore and Wilson deliberately sought to include
nontraditional and non-Western perspectives on women's travel, with
inclusions of Asian solo female travelers; Islamic women travellers
and the constraints placed on them; and women who cannot travel (or
choose, for whatever reason, a 'home holiday'). This enlightening
volume brings together scholars from the broad areas of tourism,
hospitality, geography, and leisure studies to examine how and why
women travel. The chapters bring light to perspectives from
different countries, cultures, backgrounds, and religions, and
utilize different methods, approaches and styles of presentation.
Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives will be
of interest to academics and graduate students from a range of
disciplines, including tourism, leisure studies, sociology,
cultural geography, anthropology, feminist and gender studies,
business, economics and management; as well as professionals
working in the tourism industry, particularly those with an
interest in niche markets and segmentation.
This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends,
opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers,
and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to
build upon. Managerial and policy implications are provided for the
tourism and hospitality industry and government agencies to better
accommodate the needs of Asian youth travellers - a unique and
diverse market that is yet to be fully unveiled to the world. The
book investigates the key characteristics that define contemporary
Asian youth travellers, adopting a broad definition of Asia. While
it includes relatively mature markets, it also features emerging
markets in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The book
looks at different forms of tourism undertaken by Asian travellers,
encompassing educational tourism, adventure tourism, working
holiday, self-driving tourism, dark tourism, volunteer tourism, and
cultural tourism. A wide range of topics are discussed, from
history to current trends, from motivations to constraints, from
the influence of culture and religion on travel behaviour to the
search of social freedom through travel, and from destination
choice to destination avoidance. The findings and interpretations
are drawn from diverse and novel research methods, such as
netnography, visual anthropology, historiography, interview, focus
group, survey, and document analysis.
This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends,
opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers,
and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to
build upon. Managerial and policy implications are provided for the
tourism and hospitality industry and government agencies to better
accommodate the needs of Asian youth travellers - a unique and
diverse market that is yet to be fully unveiled to the world. The
book investigates the key characteristics that define contemporary
Asian youth travellers, adopting a broad definition of Asia. While
it includes relatively mature markets, it also features emerging
markets in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The book
looks at different forms of tourism undertaken by Asian travellers,
encompassing educational tourism, adventure tourism, working
holiday, self-driving tourism, dark tourism, volunteer tourism, and
cultural tourism. A wide range of topics are discussed, from
history to current trends, from motivations to constraints, from
the influence of culture and religion on travel behaviour to the
search of social freedom through travel, and from destination
choice to destination avoidance. The findings and interpretations
are drawn from diverse and novel research methods, such as
netnography, visual anthropology, historiography, interview, focus
group, survey, and document analysis.
This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist
experiences. The book consists of 10 chapters, which are organised
into two themes: Collectivist Culture and Wellbeing. The chapters
cover emerging forms of tourism (e.g., wedding and bridal
photography tourism, roots/affinity tourism and shamanic tourism),
investigate a wide range of topics (e.g., tourist motivation,
tourist anxiety and decision making) and consider Asian
perspectives from diverse backgrounds (e.g., China, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia,
Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal). The book provides tourism
researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated,
comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian
tourists.
This book focuses on the planning, marketing, and management of
Asian tourism destinations, and evaluates current developments
within Southeast-Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. As more
Asian destinations enter the global tourism arena and more Asian
travellers look to explore destinations in Asia and beyond, an
understanding of how Asian destinations practice tourism is crucial
to the future sustainable development of global tourism. This book
provides an invaluable stock of research and knowledge based on the
Asian practice and experience in destination planning, marketing,
and management, offering insights into the latest development and
trends in the region.
This book explores the ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies,
and methods that inform tourism qualitative research conducted
either by Asian scholars or non-Asian scholars focusing on Asia. In
addition to providing a platform for researchers to publish their
qualitative journeys, it aims to encourage further Asian
qualitative tourism research production. The book not only includes
chapters from Asian scholars but also non-Asian tourism researchers
with a focus on Asia, as their chapters are crucial to represent
the multiplicity of realities constituting 'Asia'. It is of
interest to the whole tourism academic community as it provides
novel methodological insights from a non-Western perspective, which
at the moment are often silenced by dominant (Western) voices.
This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist
experiences. The book consists of 10 chapters, which are organised
into two themes: Collectivist Culture and Wellbeing. The chapters
cover emerging forms of tourism (e.g., wedding and bridal
photography tourism, roots/affinity tourism and shamanic tourism),
investigate a wide range of topics (e.g., tourist motivation,
tourist anxiety and decision making) and consider Asian
perspectives from diverse backgrounds (e.g., China, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia,
Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal). The book provides tourism
researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated,
comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian
tourists.
This book explores the ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies,
and methods that inform tourism qualitative research conducted
either by Asian scholars or non-Asian scholars focusing on Asia. In
addition to providing a platform for researchers to publish their
qualitative journeys, it aims to encourage further Asian
qualitative tourism research production. The book not only includes
chapters from Asian scholars but also non-Asian tourism researchers
with a focus on Asia, as their chapters are crucial to represent
the multiplicity of realities constituting 'Asia'. It is of
interest to the whole tourism academic community as it provides
novel methodological insights from a non-Western perspective, which
at the moment are often silenced by dominant (Western) voices.
This book focuses on the planning, marketing, and management of
Asian tourism destinations, and evaluates current developments
within Southeast-Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. As more
Asian destinations enter the global tourism arena and more Asian
travellers look to explore destinations in Asia and beyond, an
understanding of how Asian destinations practice tourism is crucial
to the future sustainable development of global tourism. This book
provides an invaluable stock of research and knowledge based on the
Asian practice and experience in destination planning, marketing,
and management, offering insights into the latest development and
trends in the region.
While gender research in tourism has become increasingly important
within Western academic circles, little has been written from an
Asian perspective. This book is the first to address this knowledge
gap and to fully explore Asian gendered identities and tourism. The
chapters reflect upon the role of tourism in producing, reiterating
and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia. The
authors attempt to reconcile both Asian and Western perspectives on
gender using their own personal experiences of understanding and
negotiating Western and Asian identities and practices. The book
paves the way for important reflections about the ontological and
epistemological meanings of 'Asia', 'gender' and 'tourism'. It is
an important resource for researchers from a range of disciplines
including tourism, leisure studies, Asian studies and feminist and
gender studies, as well as for professionals working in the tourism
industry.
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