Women and Travel : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Product Description

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.

Review

"This timely and engaging collection concerning women, gender and travel documents the growing diversity in experience, desires and industry practice. Simultaneously many chapters portray global/local sexism continuing to shape what women want as travelers and what they can actually have, in contrast to potential paths toward gender equality."
―Margaret Byrne Swain, University of California, Davis

"Provides a multitude of insights and perspectives on women and travel (consumers) and as such acts as a balance for the numerous books on women in their role as workers (producers) in the tourism industry."
―Heather Gibson, PhD, Professor, Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management, University of Florida

"Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore and Erica Wilson have assembled an impressive gathering of established and emerging scholars in this collection focused on gendered discourses around resistance, independence, empowerment, and indi¬vidual agency in and through travel. It is a long overdue book and will be required reading for students and scholars interested in any aspect of women’s travel experiences. The individual chapters offer a series of richly researched, compelling and highly, readable narratives, and as a whole the book constitutes a hugely significant contribution to the field of tourism and gender research.
―Nigel Morgan, Professor and Chair in Visitor Economy Management, School of Management, Swansea University

"This timely engaging collection concerning women, gender and travel documents growing diversity in experience, desires and industry practice. Simultaneously many chapters portray global/local sexism continuing to shape what women want as travelers and what they can actually have, in contrast to potential paths toward gender equality."
―Margaret Byrne Swain, University of California, Davis

About the Author

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore holds a PhD in Consumer Behaviour from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and has worked in Malaysia, United States, and now Australia. She was a 2013/14 Fulbright Scholar with residency at the University of Florida and is now a senior lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Dr. Khoo-Lattimore’s current research interest is on tourist and guest behavior,