Critical Inclusive Tourism: Empowering Marginalized Groups

This groundbreaking book addresses the longstanding lack of consensus surrounding the approach to marginalization in tourism. The chapters identify critical components and question the legitimacy of who qualifies as marginalized. Crucially, the book formulates effective solutions to address marginalization within the tourism context.

While previous studies in tourism and social sciences have presented diverse conceptualizations and explanations of marginalization, the chapters in this book meticulously scrutinize their contextualization in constructing structural marginalization within the tourism industry. By doing so the book offers a comprehensive understanding of how marginalisation manifests in the complex dynamics within the tourism sector. The chapters unravel the multifaceted dimensions of marginalization, providing a nuanced and informed perspective that contributes significantly to the ongoing discourse on inclusivity and equity within tourism knowledge.

This book will be useful to tourism practitioners, academics, students, researchers and policymakers. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Recreation Research.

Catheryn Khoo is Professor at Torrens University Australia and the CEO of www.thefirstclass.co. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Management Perspectives and Series Editor for the "Perspectives on Asian Tourism”. She has appeared in, and been cited by, international media including TV, radio, and newspapers. She has consulted for the UNWTO, UNESCO and Asian Development Bank.

Prachi Thakur is a Tourism and Gender Researcher who examines how structural changes can lead to more inclusion of traditionally marginalized groups. She is a two-time TEDx speaker and diversity strategist who co-wrote the regional report for Asia and the Pacific on Women in Tourism for UNWTO in 2022.

Paolo Mura is Professor at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His research areas explore tourist experiences and behavior, including gendered experiences and representations, traveling subcultures, and critical and qualitative approaches to research. He is also the series editor “Perspectives on Asian Tourism”, and one of the managing editors of Tourism Management Perspectives.

Jess Sanggeyong is a Feminist Scholar who examines inclusive workplace in the tourism and hospitality industry. She helps organisations remove gendered employment issues by identifying gaps between policy and practice.

Mona Jihyun Yang’s research interest is on responsible tourism with a focus on children’s rights in tourism, particularly from an Asian perspective. She has published on the topic in Tourism Management and Journal of Travel Research.