I don't think the gender and tourism debate had been talking solely about
tourism and the sex trade, in fact I think it had covered a wide rather of
gendered and sexual/sexuality oriented issues. However, if the opposite
appears to have been the case then I apologize
Cheers
Neil
Dr Neil Carr
Lecturer in Tourism Management
University of Queensland
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nelson Graburn <[log in to unmask]>
To: Neil Carr <[log in to unmask]>;
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:54 AM
Subject: Gender in Tourism
>
> I quite agree with Cyril Belshaw that the topic of "Gender in Tourism"
> should go far beyond, indeed should not be centered around "sex tourism."
>
> A few years ago a student, Carla M. Dole, in my undergraduate course
> Anthropology of Tourism (Anthropology 151 at the University of California,
> Berkeley), asked to do her research term paper on tourism for women or
> women only tourism. She had worked as a travel agent so had some very good
> contacts and wrote a quite creditable term paper.
>
> I encouraged her to continue with the topic, and the next thing I knew was
> that in 1996, with a woman partner, she had started a very substantial
> USA-wide quarterly journal on and for the topic, MAIDEN VOYAGES [ISSN:
> 1086-1330]. I believe that the venture faltered after a few years because
> of a financial difference of opinion between the two publishers. The
domain
> name: www.maidenvoyages.com had been re-registered by someone else by the
> year 2,000.
>
> We need more students like this!
>
> Nelson Graburn
> Professor of Anthropology
> U. C. Berkeley.
>
>
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