Recapturing the Adventuress: Narratives on Identity and Gendered Positioning in Backpacking

Elsrud, Torun

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“…In case of the women solo travellers, women do not travel alone only to see new places but to get new experiences and to feel independent in a way to escape the pressure from society. Also, travelling alone for women is an escape from the domestic and family responsibilities and from the femininity that challenges the dominant masculine image of adventure (Elsrud, 2005). Considering act dimension of the experience as a physical experience, behavior and lifestyles, which provides her alternative forms to the lifestyle and interactions, it is hypothesized that the escape motivations positively influences the act dimension of solo women travel experiences.…”

Section: H7 -The Escape Motivations Positively Influences the Act Dimmentioning

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Women solo travellers: motivations and experiences

Pereira

Silva

2018

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 100 RESUMO Introdução: O conceito de mulher solo traveller, apesar de recente, tornou-se um segmento turístico relevante. Estas turistas procuram mais do que uma viagem de um lugar para outro. Escolhem ir sozinhas na busca de aventura, independência, sentimento de realização pessoal, individualidade e fuga. Não viajam sozinhas porque não têm escolha ou porque são solitárias. São levadas por motivações específicas e conscientes. Objetivos: Neste trabalho conceptual, são categorizadas motivações de mulheres solo travellers com base na revisão da literatura, a fim de identificar por que as mulheres escolhem viajar sozinhas. O foco deste artigo é explorar a relação entre essas motivações e as suas experiências de viagem fornecendo um modelo conceptual. Métodos Através de uma ampla revisão de literatura centrada no conceito de motivações e experiências turísticas, permitiu-nos organizar determinadas motivações que levam as mulheres a viajar sozinhas e as suas correspondentes experiências como solo travellers. As escalas multidimensionais consideram oito dimensões de motivações: (1) escape, (2) auto-identidade e desenvolvimento, (3) desafio, (4) conexão com outros, (5) aprendizagem, (6) aventura, (7) novo perspetivas de vida, e (8) autonomia; e cinco dimensões de experiência: (1) sensação, (2) sentir, (3) pensar, (4) agir e (5) relacionar-se baseado no modelo Schmitt da experiencia turística (Schmitt,1999). Resultados: Apesar de uma extensa revisão da literatura, há poucos estudos baseados em experiências e motivações de mulheres solo travellers. Conclusões: Ainda que se trate de um mercado pouco explorado e estudado, ganhou inúmeros apoiantes em todo o mundo, traduzindo-se em um impacto expressivo não só em termos sociológicos, mas também na experiência turística. Palavras-chaves:Turismo; Motivações; Women Solo Travel; Experiência. ABSTRACT Introduction:The concept of female solo traveler, despite recent, has become a relevant tourist segment. As tourists, these women are looking for journeys that bring more than a trip from one place to another. They choose to go alone in the pursuit of adventure, independence, feeling of personal fulfillment, individuality and escape. They do not travel alone because they have no choice or because they are loners. They are driven by specific and consciousness motivations. Objective: In this conceptual work, a set of solo travel motivations are categorize based on literature review, to identify why women, choose to travel alone. The focus of this article is to explore the relationship between these motivations with women solo travel experiences providing a conceptual model. Methods: An extensive literature review focusing on the concept of tourism motivations and experiences provide a framework that allows assesses the specific motivations that driven women into travel alone and the corresponding solo traveler experience dimensions. The multi-dimension scales considers eight motivations dimensions: (1) escape, (2) self-identity and development, (3) challenge, (4) connectedness wit...

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Section: H7 -The Escape Motivations Positively Influences the Act Dimmentioning

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Women solo travellers: motivations and experiences

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Silva

2018

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“…Such texts are important in their construction of women as strong, independent, active and responsible for negotiating their own lives (Gilmartin 1997). Going Solo and Gutsy Women, as part of a growing body of female-centred travel advice, are also important as they challenge male-dominated perspectives and media images which still surround ad venture and travel pursuits (Elsrud 2005;Little and Wilson 2005). In these ways, texts such as Going Solo and Gutsy Women make an important feminist statement in that they place women firmly into a global, public sphere, assuring women of their right to occupy public and tourist space.…”

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Gutsy Women? Conflicting Discourses in Women's Travel Guidebooks

Wilson

Holdsworth²,

Witsel³

2009

Tourism Recreation Research

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There is a growing body of information and advice on offer for contemporary women travellers. Despite increasing academic research on the topic of women travellers, critical questions remain about how their travels are experienced and constructed. Addressing this gap, this paper uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyse two contemporary travel guidebooks aimed at the independent female tourist. Of particular focus is how the texts mediate women's travel and construct the 'female travel experience'. The central argument of this paper is that there exists a conflicting discourse in contemporary women's travel guidebooks: that of 'empowerment' versus 'fear'.

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“…Heimtun and B. Abelsen hence transform the boy to the man (Noy, 2007, p. 67). Male backpackers who give in to the emotional duress of such travel as well as female adventuresses are thus often marginalised (Elsrud, 2005). Hegemonic femininity in a traditional holiday context is about controlled bodily movements, social interactions and relaxation (Small, 2007), not independent women travelling solo.…”

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The tourist experience and bonding

Heimtun¹,

Abelsen

2012

Current Issues in Tourism

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This paper sheds light on the gendered meanings of bonding within the tourist experience. Its basis is a survey of young male and female single students, which demonstrates how they value being with, doing and sharing a holiday with their friends. The findings suggest complex gender power relations within tourism. For instance, women significantly more than men need to be together with, talking to and sharing experiences with their friends, and they require more than men this company to feel safe during the day and night. Such gender distinctions are linked to how men and women enact friendships and gender differently and to the geography of women's travel fears, which proposes that women more than men develop mental maps which restrict public movements. This research also suggests that the need for the company of friends is not just about spatiality; singles of both sexes prefer to be with friends when eating out in the enclavic and in heterogeneous tourism spaces. This finding thus proposes that midlife single women's ambivalence towards eating out alone on city breaks and resort holidays is perhaps not so much about womanhood as their age.

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Recapturing the Adventuress: Narratives on Identity and Gendered Positioning in Backpacking

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