Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism

Contents:

1 Introduction to Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism 1
Haywantee Ramkissoon and Felix Mavondo
2 Entrepreneurship: a man's world in the early days of tourism? 9
Richard. W. Butler
3 Gender differences in tourism entrepreneurship 23
Irene Cheng Chu Chan and Rob Law
4 Business opportunities off the beaten tourist path: female
entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico 36
Maria-Francisca Casado-Claro, Jakson Renner
Rodrigues Soares and Priscila Cembranel
5 Female entrepreneurship in tourism: an island perspective 58
Senika Dewnarain and Vikramsing Gungah
6 Micro-entrepreneurs in a remote island setting 73
Richard. W. Butler
7 Female tourism entrepreneurs in China: contributing
factors to their entrepreneurial journey 90
Yangyang Jiang and Yizhe Cui
8 Women and entrepreneurship in tourism in Bangladesh 110
Azizul Hassan and Haywantee Ramkissoon
9 Emotional capital and entrepreneurship: female tourism
entrepreneurs in Arctic Norway 126
Line Mathisen and Siri Ulfsdatter Soreng
10 Personality traits as a factor for entrepreneurial success:
gender differences in tourism in Oman 144
Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Islam Elbayoumi Salem, Nasser
Alhamar Alkathiri, Hassan Aideed and Marwa Alshanfri
11 Gender and power in hospitality and tourism
entrepreneurship: a case of the Eastern Cape province of
South Africa 167
Faith Samkange, Juliet Chipumuro, Tsitsi Chipfuva and
Haywantee Ramkissoon
12 Gender and entrepreneurship in transaction costs: women
entrepreneurs in the foodservice system 188
Amit Sharma, Donna Quadri-Feliti and Yidan Huang

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• Indústria do turismo
• Espírito de iniciativa
• Indústria hospitalar

Gender and tourism; tourism entrepreneurship; empowerment; emotional and social capital; food service; power; male/female entrepreneurship