Asian Genders in Tourism

This book is the first to explore Asian gendered identities and tourism from both Asian and Western perspectives. The authors reflect on the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia and on their own experiences of understanding and negotiating Western and Asian identities and practices.

About the author

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia and her research interests include tourist and guest behaviour, with a passionate focus on women, families and young children.
Paolo Mura is Senior Lecturer at Taylor's University, Malaysia and his research interests focus on tourist behaviour, gender, young tourists, deviant behaviour on holiday and ethnographic approaches to research.

Summary

This book is the first to explore Asian gendered identities and tourism from both Asian and Western perspectives. The authors reflect on the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia and on their own experiences of understanding and negotiating Western and Asian identities and practices.

Product details

• Assisted by: Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore (Editor), Paolo Mura (Editor)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781845415792
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-579-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Aspects of Tourism; Aspects of Tourism (Hardcover); Aspects of Tourism; Aspects of Tourism (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches