Gender equality and tourism beyond empowerment / edited by Stroma Cole

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : gender equality, and tourism : beyond empowerment -- Gender equality and tourism : the global policy context -- Feminist perspectives in the development of action plans for tourism -- "An uneasy truth" : female tourism managers and organisational gender equality measures in Portugal -- Tourism as empowerment : women artisan's experiences in central Mexico -- Trekking to women's empowerment : a case study of a female operated travel company in Ladakh -- Women and tourism in the township : tourism for empowerment? -- Journeys of emancipation : disrupting poverty in Nepal -- Tourism and women's rights in Tunisia -- Tourism entrepreneurship and gender in the Global South : the Mexican experience -- Tourism, dolls and dreams : the last generation? -- Conclusions : beyond empowerment.