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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