Strategic Management of Rural Tourism Towards Gender - Sensitive Planning

Fazileh Dadvar-Khani and Mansour Ghanian

International Journal of Geography and Geology, 2016, vol. 5, issue 11, 236-248

Abstract: Gender blind tourism management, eventually will lead to unsustainable development. This Qualitative research has established to explore the gender needs and opinions related to tourism development, via strategic management The statistical population of this research is elite people that has been involved in tourism activities in rural areas of Kan district in the North- West of Tehran- Capital city of Iran .Two focus group including 23 men and 16 women had attended in separate workshops .The technique of SWOT had been used .The result shows there are convergence between the views of men and women about strengths of tourism. Meanwhile the divergence appears in the case of weaknesses and threat points, as that women are more concerned about environmental degradation. However, men think about physical facilities. As opportunities, men emphasis on economic prosperity, but women believe that tourism promotes them a higher social status in the family and society.

Keywords: Strategic management; Rural tourism; Gender sensitive; Tourism planning; SWAT method; Iran (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://archive.conscientiabeam.com/index.php/10/article/view/1968/2812 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pkp:ijogag:v:5:y:2016:i:11:p:236-248:id:1968

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Geography and Geology from Conscientia Beam
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dim Michael ().