Toward Empowerment: Women and Community-Based Tourism in Thailand

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dc.contributor.authorDunn, Susan F.
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-06T22:14:53Z
dc.date.available2008-05-06T22:14:53Z
dc.date.issued2007-12
dc.descriptionxi, 75 p. : ill., maps. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call numbers: KNIGHT G155.T5 D86 2007en
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, tourism has garnered widespread support as a tool for sustainable development. Alternative forms of tourism have emerged such as ecotourism, pro-poor tourism, volunteer tourism, and in particular, community-based tourism. While sustainable tourism development strongly emphasizes environmental issues, it seems that sociocultural issues have been overshadowed. Gender·considerations need to be included in a critical analysis of the sociocultural impacts of these emerging forms of tourism. This research seeks to determine how a community-based tourism project promotes the empowerment of women,using a case study of one rural Thai community, Leeled. Empowerment is operationalized as a multidimensional process with political, psychological, social, and economic dimensions experienced individually and collectively. While community-based tourism projects have been successful in promoting women's empowerment, they could be more successful and improve sustainability if development practitioners would incorporate a gender analysis assessment throughout the development process.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAdviser: Anita Weissen
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/6122
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, International Studies, M.A., 2007en
dc.titleToward Empowerment: Women and Community-Based Tourism in Thailanden
dc.typeThesisen

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