Unpacking women's tourism work in a sanctioned destination

Siamak Seyfi (), Albert Kimbu (), Seyedasaad Hosseini (), Tan Vo-Thanh () and Mustafeed Zaman ()
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Siamak Seyfi: Taylor’s University, University of Oulu [Finland] = Oulun yliopisto [Suomi] = Université d'Oulu [Finlande], Sunway University [Malaysia]
Seyedasaad Hosseini: Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga], UJ - University of Johannesburg [Johannesbourg, South Africa]
Tan Vo-Thanh: EMLV - École de management Léonard de Vinci, CERIIM - Centre de Recherche en Intelligence et Innovation Managériales - Excelia Group | La Rochelle Business School, Excelia Group | La Rochelle Business School
Mustafeed Zaman: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School

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Abstract: This study examines how international economic sanctions reshape women's work and livelihoods in Iran's tourism sector through the theoretical lens of feminist political economy. Drawing on interviews conducted in two phases around 2018 and again in 2024, the study unveils how sanction pressures operate across macro, meso, and micro levels, giving rise to three interrelated processes: gendered economic scarring, whereby sanctions deepen women's labour exclusion; sanction-driven informalisation, through which economic risk is shifted from institutions to women's insecure work; and a political economy of survival, in which women's adaptive labour sustains households without producing empowerment. By reconceptualising sanctions as long-term pressures on tourism economies, the study extends research on tourism crises, labour relations, and gendered inequality in crisis-ridden destinations.

Keywords: Tourism labour Tourism crisis Economic sanctions Feminist political economy Gendered resilience Religious governance; Religious governance; Gendered resilience; Feminist political economy; Economic sanctions; Tourism crisis; Tourism labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-05-01
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Published in Annals of Tourism Research, 2026, 118, pp.104152. ⟨10.1016/j.annals.2026.104152⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2026.104152

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