Table Of ContentWOMEN AND TRAVEL
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Advances in Hospitality and Tourism
WOMEN AND TRAVEL
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore, PhD
Erica Wilson, PhD
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore, PhD
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore holds a PhD in Consumer Behavior from the
University of Otago, New Zealand and has worked in Malaysia, United
States, and now Australia. She was a 2013/14 Fulbright Scholar with
residency at the University of Florida, and is now Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management at Griffith Univer-
sity. Catheryn’s current research interest is on tourist and guest behavior,
with a passionate focus on women, families, and young children. She is
also particularly interested in understanding these segments from an Asian
perspective, and how their travel experiences and behaviors differ cross-
culturally. Catheryn serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Hospi-
tality and Tourism Education, the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Management, Tourism Review and Anatolia. She is an executive committee
member of The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Educa-
tion (CAUTHE) and board member of the Asia Pacific Council on Hotel,
Restaurant, and Institutional Education (APacCHRIE). She is also the
founder and chair of Women Academics in Tourism (WAiT). Catheryn
lives in a bayside suburb with her husband and their three young children,
and attempts furniture upcycling in her spare time, when, she can find any.
Erica Wilson, PhD
Erica Wilson is Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the School of
Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University. Her doctoral thesis
(Griffith University) was an interpretive, qualitative exploration into the
constraints faced by Australian solo women travelers. Erica also holds
a postgraduate diploma in environmental studies (Adelaide University),
and a first-class honors degree in tourism (James Cook University). Her
scholarly publications and research interests focus on critical pedagogy in
tourism, gender and tourism, leisure constraints and negotiation, sustain-
able tourism in protected/World Heritage areas, and qualitative methodol-
ogies. Erica currently sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards for Hospitality
and Society, Journal of Tourism and Development, and the Annals of
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Leisure Research. She is a co-coordinator of the Critical Approaches in
Tourism and Hospitality Special Interest Group within CAUTHE. Erica
lives “off the grid” on a rural property in northern New South Wales, with
her partner and two children. She would love to have more time to be an
independent woman traveler, but is content to stay put for a while and
work in her veggie patch.
CHAPTER AUTHORS
Fiona Eva Bakas has a PhD in Tourism Gender and Economics from the
University of Otago, New Zealand and a Master of Science in Ecotourism
from Portsmouth University, UK. She is currently a postdoctoral research
fellow at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is also an associate
member of NGO Equality in Tourism and a member of the GOVCOPP
research group.
Maria Manuel Baptista has a PhD in the philosophy of culture. She is
an Assistant Professor and researcher of Portuguese Culture Area in the
Department of Languages and Cultures of the Aveiro University, Portugal.
She is also Director of the PhD in Cultural Studies in the Department
of Languages and Cultures of the Aveiro University (3rd cycle taught in
collaboration with the Minho University, Portugal).
Sue Beeton is a travel researcher, writer, blogger and Foundation Chair
of the College of Eminent Professors at William Angliss Institute. She has
conducted research into community development, film-induced tourism,
and nature-based tourism, along with advising government in areas of
public land management. As well as producing numerous academic
papers and related media articles, she has published numerous books,
including Ecotourism: A Practical Guide for Rural Communities; Commu-
nity Development through Tourism; Film-Induced Tourism, and Tourism
and the Moving Image. She founded the Asia Pacific chapter of the Travel
and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) and is a Board Member of
TTRA International as well as an Honorary Associate Professor at Latrobe
University, Australia.
Gisele Carvalho holds a Master of Science in Education and Environ-
mental Management of the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She is Effective
Professor of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology
of Pará State, IFPA. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Doctoral
Program in Tourism at Aveiro University, Portugal, under the Gisele is
also a member of the GOVCOPP research group.
Carlos Costa is Full Professor and Director of the Department of
Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Tourism at the
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University of Aveiro, Portugal. He holds a PhD and a Master of Science
in Tourism from the University of Surrey, UK, and a Bachelor of Science
in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Aveiro. He is
Director of the Doctoral Program in Tourism, editor of the Journal of
Tourism and Development, and a member of the executive board of the
Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness, and Public Policy. He
is also the technical-scientific Director of the spin-off tourism company
“idtour-unique solutions”.
Bente Heimtun is Associate Professor at the UiT, The Arctic Univer-
sity of Norway. Bente’s research interests are the sociology of tourism,
gender studies, life course theories, the interface between the philosophies
of feminist social sciences and the practices of tourism research, tourism
employment, and place attachment. Recently she has turned her attention
to winter tourism, with a focus on Northern Lights tourism performances
situated in material, cultural, and social structures.
Magdalena Hoffmann completed a nursing degree and obtained a post-
graduate Master in hospital management and a MBA in health service
management simultaneous to her employment as a registered nurse
followed by a Master’s degree in public health. During her professional
engagement, she filled the roles of ward manager as well as nursing expert
in organizational development in a geriatric hospital. She is currently
employed by the Medical University Graz and writing her dissertation.
Her past and present fields of research are public health, communication in
intensive care units, geriatrics, health tourism, and health literacy.
Margret Jaeger completed her PhD research on women’s health politics
in Austria and Brazil at the University of Graz, Austria. She worked as
senior research scientist at the Department of Public Health & HTA at
UMIT, University for Health and Life Sciences in Vienna until 2014. The
study about health tourism and the evaluation of a health touristic facility
was realized between 2013 and 2015 and supported by the Tyrolean Fund
of Science. She currently works as independent researcher and teacher.
Her research interests are cancer rehabilitation, health tourism and gender,
and the development of transcultural competence for health professionals.
Kelley A. McClinchey has a PhD in geography specializing in urban
social and cultural geography. She is currently a part-time lecturer in the
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier
University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Kelley studies the philosophies
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of place in the context of tourism. Using a framework of sensuous and
emotional geographies, she relates these specifically to literary travel,
tourism and leisure mobilities, the tourism-migration nexus, and ethno-
cultural urban festivals. She has published articles in academic journals,
book chapters in edited volumes, and presented at several tourism and
geography conferences.
Paolo Mura is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Program Director of the
Postgraduate Programs at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. His research
interests include tourist behavior, gender, young tourists, deviant behavior
on holiday, and ethnographic approaches to research.
Linda M. Myers is an independent researcher living in Northern Scot-
land. Her background is in women’s and girls’ physical and outdoor
education. As a mature student, she completed her PhD in Department
of Tourism, at the University of Sunderland, UK. She received an ESRC
research grant to present her work in South Korea at the World Leisure
Conference. Her studies focus on women’s travel, with emphasis upon
independent, backpacker, and gay women travelers. Her research interests
include the value of travel to women, identity development, and identity
reassessment resulting from the travel journey itself and from adventurous
activity undertaken. Her publications include book chapters in Backpacker
Tourism, Beyond Backpacker Tourism, International Sports Events and
Annals of Leisure Research Australia and NewZealand Association.
Maria Oprodovsky teaches in the registered nurses program and is
lecturer in the bachelor’s degree program in the Campus Social Medical
Center South of Vienna belonging to the Vienna Hospital Association. She
is a registered nurse and has been working at a surgical ward before she
went through a training program in pedagogics for nurses. She has earned
a Bachelor Degree in Nursing Science and a Master Degree in Health
Science from the private university UMIT in Hall, Tyrol.
Mandy Rowe began her working life as a psychologist for the RAAF, which
is where she met her husband. Together, they have had two long sojourns
overseas and returned to Australia in 2002, settling in rural Victoria. For the
next eight years, Mandy owned a luxury bed and breakfast. Inspired by her
worldwide group of very good friends, she founded Broads Abroad Travel
Network (a global female-only online hospitality exchange), and has had
published two books: a memoir, Broads Abroad: One Woman’s Journey,
and a quirky travel compilation, Broads Abroad: Worldly Wise.
