Gender Participation in the Tourism Sector : A Case Study of Bundelkhand Region

Contents: Preface. 1. Gender participation: an introduction. 2. Bundelkhand: A socio economic overview. 3. Bundelkhand: touristic potential. 4. Women and tourism in Bundelkhand. 5. Chanderi: a success story of gender participation in tourism. 6. Conclusion. 7. Bundelkhand in pictures: a photo feature. Bibliography.

Tourism has brought profound changes in the lives of women, as well as for the community at large. The kind of changes that tourism has brought to the lives of women is in question. It is hypothesized that there is a paradoxical impact that tourism brings tot he it generates. Gender inequality is a little understood facet in the tourist development experience. The book is a text on gender participation in the tourism sector and studies the role, relevance and scope of women participation in the tourism sector. The present research work has tried to explore the level of women participation in tourism related jobs in the Bundelkhand region. It has also identified the tourism potential of the region and has studied the attitude of employment of women in tourism related jobs in the region.

The book is a step towards  initiating research on Gender Participation in Tourism Sector and should be of help to scholars and researchers of the subject of Tourism as well as Gender studies.