Women's Empowerment and Tourism Development

Abstract

Women's empowerment has become a crucial component of sustainable tourism development in tourist destinations. Meanwhile, achieving gender equality and empowering women constitutes the fifth goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda (UN-SDGs). Since 2007, UNWTO has been working—through its Ethics, Culture, and Social Responsibility Department—in partnership with UN Women and a range of external partners across the globe, to bring gender issues to the forefront of the tourism sector, promoting gender equality and women's empowerment and encouraging member states to mainstream gender issues in their respective tourism policies. The present study aims to investigate the influence of women's empowerment on tourism development in India. The current study aims to investigate the perceptions of women's work in tourism and women's entrepreneurship as predictors of women's empowerment in the tourism sector. Limitations and directions for future research are also addressed.