This chapter presents a critical synthesis of a range of literature from tourism studies, organization studies and the wider social sciences, and has two interrelated aims. First, to locate gender-based harassment (GBH) as an issue in the tourism academy and thereby de-isolate, empower and reassure ...

This chapter suggests that now is an appropriate time to reflect on transformative tourism. As a new and unfolding transformative perspective, hopeful tourism can offer broader philosophical understanding of how we know our multiple, entwined worlds and produce specific, attainable transformative...

This chapter examines the social inequality experienced by tourists with mobility disabilities. It starts with a general overview of disability demographics, different approaches to disability and the concepts required for an understanding of the disability experience. Using Australia as a case...

This chapter provides an analysis of social tourism provision for low-income groups, focusing on the social and economic benefits of such provision. It begins by defining social tourism and discusses issues in relation to holiday participation, poverty and social exclusion. A number of examples of...

This chapter examines the links between tourism and human rights. The rationale for tourism development in less economically developed countries is to bring economic prosperity and a better standard of living. Frequently, however, the right of freedom to travel for the rich impacts negatively on...

A brief overview is presented of the issues concerning tourism and inequalities, before outlining the structure of the book.

This chapter discusses the tourism experiences of visually impaired individuals and explores the positive role tourism can play in their lives. Taking research undertaken in the UK to illustrate the argument, it also outlines the key barriers to participation in tourism for individuals with visual...

This chapter focuses on those who are relatively immobile because of the economic and other structural and regulative mechanisms, such as class, race, gender and religion, which affect the economic and social capital of individuals in society and therefore their life chances, with respect to...

This chapter begins by considering the global political and economic context in which sex tourism has developed, and then explores its connections to inequalities structured along lines of gender, race, age and class. It is concluded that tourist development in less economically developed countries ...

This chapter highlights some of the significant barriers that cause marginalization in a beach enclave resort in a less economically developed country (LEDC). Reasons for marginalization of the local business community and freedom of citizens to interact with the tourism industry are explained in...