Toward Empowerment: Women and Community-Based Tourism in Thailand

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Authors

Dunn, Susan F.

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

University of Oregon

Abstract

In 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.

Description

xi, 75 p. : ill., maps. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call numbers: KNIGHT G155.T5 D86 2007

Keywords

Citation

Endorsement

Review

Supplemented By

Referenced By