Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism

Edited by Haywantee Ramkissoon, Fellow of the Peer Review College, British Academy of Management, UK; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK; Professor, School of Management, College of Business & Law, Adelaide University, Australia; Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Tourism and Hospitality, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Visiting Professor, Centre for Sustainable Societies, Taylor’s University, Malaysia and Felix Mavondo, Professor of Marketing, Director of Research Impact, Co-Director: Graduate Research Industry Partnership, Department of Marketing, Monash Business School, Australia

‘This is a thought provoking book that explores a timely and important topic. It discusses the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship in tourism from various perspectives. It is full of important information for those of us who want to thoroughly understand the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship in tourism.’BR>

• Contents:1 Introduction to Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism 1Haywantee Ramkissoon and Felix Mavondo2 Entrepreneurship: a man’s world in the early days of tourism? 9Richard. W. Butler3 Gender differences in tourism entrepreneurship 23Irene Cheng Chu Chan and Rob Law4 Business opportunities off the beaten tourist path: femaleentrepreneurs in Puerto Rico 36Maria-Francisca Casado-Claro, Jakson RennerRodrigues Soares and Priscila Cembranel5 Female entrepreneurship in tourism: an island perspective 58Senika Dewnarain and Vikramsing Gungah6 Micro-entrepreneurs in a remote island setting 73Richard. W. Butler7 Female tourism entrepreneurs in China: contributingfactors to their entrepreneurial journey 90Yangyang Jiang and Yizhe Cui8 Women and entrepreneurship in tourism in Bangladesh 110Azizul Hassan and Haywantee Ramkissoon9 Emotional capital and entrepreneurship: female tourismentrepreneurs in Arctic Norway 126Line Mathisen and Siri Ulfsdatter Søreng10 Personality traits as a factor for entrepreneurial success:gender differences in tourism in Oman 144Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Islam Elbayoumi Salem, NasserAlhamar Alkathiri, Hassan Aideed and Marwa Alshanfri11 Gender and power in hospitality and tourismentrepreneurship: a case of the Eastern Cape province ofSouth Africa 167Faith Samkange, Juliet Chipumuro, Tsitsi Chipfuva andHaywantee Ramkissoon12 Gender and entrepreneurship in transaction costs: womenentrepreneurs in the foodservice system 188Amit Sharma, Donna Quadri-Feliti and Yidan HuangIndex