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Gender equality reporting in tourism
No full textDespite the increasing acknowledgement of gender equality as the sustainable development goal, few studies explored how tourism organizations develop, measure and review gender equality initiatives in sustainability reporting. Through the document analysis of 67 corporate documents by 10 multinational hotels and 22 airlines, this study found that tourism corporations have substandard information on target (goal), process and recipients of gender equality initiatives. It is of concern because incomplete social reporting can be counter-productive if corporations appear to address social issues such as gender inequality without committed efforts. Informed by findings, a gender equality reporting framework is proposed for tourism researchers and practitioners to effectively measure, report, and benchmark tourism organizations’ gender equality performance and instigate meaningful and sustainable change.No Full Tex
What motivates and hinders people from travelling alone? A study of solo and non-solo travellers
No full textContemporary lifestyles and social changes have precipitated the popularity of solo travel. Despite the growing prominence of the solo travel market, it remains an under researched area. This study explores the definitions, motivations, and constraints of solo travel, taking into consideration both existing and potential solo travellers, and provides a gender-balanced investigation and subsequent in-depth understanding of the underlying factors that drive solo travel motivations and constraints. Interviews were conducted with 14 solo travellers and 14 non-solo travellers. The findings suggest that solo travel as an evolving and fluid concept, varies according to individual travel experiences and personal circumstances. Solo travel motivations can be broadly categorized into ‘solo by circumstances’ and ‘solo by choice’. Transformative experience, freedom, and flexibility are key motivators for solo travellers, while anticipated self-discovery and freedom inspire the potential solo travellers. Safety, cost, and social constraints emerged as the top three inhibitors impeding or constricting solo travel participation and experience. The findings reveal the institutionalization of solo travel and proclivity to join tours as strategies to build confidence and overcome safety and social constraints. Recommendations for the travel industry to cater to the solo travel market were also examined from the travellers’ perspectives.Full Tex
Enablers for empowerment: Saudi women’s employment in the events sector
No full textA recent United Nations World Tourism Organisation publication, Regional report on women in tourism in the Middle East identified that the representation of women working in tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is significantly below the global average. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabian (KSA) government is seeking to address this imbalance. The purpose of this research is to support this initiative, by determining how women’s workforce participation in the event sector can be encouraged. A qualitative study using a mix of case studies and semi-structured interviews with twelve personnel from within the event sector in KSA was conducted. Additional qualitative data was gathered from the authors’ participation in virtual gender-related tourism events and conferences. Thematic analysis indicated key findings which include the need for the KSA government and the corporate sector to promote a positive attitude towards women in the workplace. The cessation of activity in the sector, due to COVID-19, requires government and business leaders to develop a recovery plan that will continue to foster the empowerment of women in the sector. Without a recovery plan, there is a real risk that the gains in the empowerment of women in the sector will be lost.No Full Tex
An intergenerational dialogue about gender in tourism
No full textWhere did the article “Gender in Tourism” (Swain, 1995) come from and where is it going? These questions shape our commentary which grew out of conversations by emails and Zoom meetings between Margaret Swain (Peg), Erica Wilson, Elaine Yang and Donna Chambers.Full Tex
An Art-Based Inquiry into the Perception of Tourism Impacts on Their Quality of Life: The Case of Cambodian Host-Children
No full textWhile host-children are vulnerable to tourism impacts, the tourism literature has neglected how these impacts affect host-children’s quality of life (QOL). The concept of QOL is ambiguous, and the influence of a host-guest relationship on residents’ QOL has been overlooked. This paper addresses these gaps by exploring how host-children in a developing country perceive tourism impacts on their QOL, focusing on power dynamics in a host-guest relationship. Data were collected from 94 Cambodian host-children using qualitative methods, including drawings and group interviews. The findings revealed Cambodian host-children’s perceptions of tourism impacts over five life domains—material, learning opportunity, cultural pride, emotion, and child sex tourism/trafficking. Despite their perception of negative impacts, all host-children believed that tourism had improved their QOL. The paradox of QOL is explained through Bottom-up Spillover Theory incorporated with Social Exchange Theory. Practical implications for post-COVID and directions for future research are suggested.Full Tex
Do constraint negotiation and self-construal affect solo travel intention? The case of Australia
No full textDrawing on an Australian sample (n = 944), this study used PLS-SEM modeling approach to test the effect of motivations and constraints on solo travel intention by considering constraint negotiation. The study also examined the influence of self-construal and perceived behavioral control (PBC) on solo travel intention. The findings identify self-actualization, self-construal, and PBC as key drivers of solo travel intention. While interpersonal constraints negatively affect solo travel intention, negotiating structural constraints is more crucial in enabling the intention. Recommendations informed by the findings are provided to the travel industry for it to harness the full potential of the solo travel market.Full Tex
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Children's learning processes in family travel: A narrative review through a social cognitive lens
No full textWhile the significance of family travel in facilitating children's informal learning is widely recognized, current research overlooks how children learn during such journeys. This study adopts social cognitive theory (SCT) as its theoretical framework and conducts a narrative synthesis of the fragmented environmental, behavioural, and personal factors influencing children's learning processes in family travel. The synthesis results in an SCT-informed integrative framework for understanding children's learning processes in the context of family travel, identifying existing knowledge gaps, and outlining future research directions. Furthermore, this integrative framework advances SCT by examining long-term, multi-contextual learning experiences in the informal learning setting. The findings of this study provide valuable insights and practical advice for parents and tourism professionals seeking to optimize the educational benefits of family travel for children.Full Tex
Recreating history: The evolving negotiation of staged authenticity in tourism experiences
No full textThis study advances understanding of staged authenticity in historical heritage tourism experiences by investigating consumer views on a new tourism attraction that seeks to recreate an authentic European medieval culture experience in an inauthentic setting, Australia. Interviews (N = 30) and a survey (N = 629) reveal that education, entertainment, escapism, and aesthetic experiential values, as well as staged authenticity, has a significant positive relationship to attitudes towards the recreated experience. A cluster analysis identifies a group of consumers who have a strong interest in arts and culture, the period of history exhibited, and some interest in religion and dark tourism is the most likely to consume this type of experience. This study presents a new model to staged authenticity and recreated historical eras as tourism experiences and provides a methodological framework to investigate consumer demand for this important form of tourism.No Full Tex
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