Sex and risk in young women's tourist experiences: Context, likelihood, and consequences

Berdychevsky, Liza; Gibson, Heather

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2015.04.009

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“…Only a few exceptions have explored the positive meanings of risk and risk taking in tourism and in contemporary society through a relativist standpoint (Berdychevsky & Gibson, 2015a;Cater, 2006;Elsrud, 2001Elsrud, , 2005. These studies suggest that risk perception is subjective and context-specific and that the perceived presence of risk can also contribute a sense of excitement to tourist experience in cases such as backpacking travel (Elsrud, 2001(Elsrud, , 2005, adventure tourism (Cater, 2006) and women's sexual risktaking during holidays (Berdychevsky & Gibson, 2015a, 2015b. This study intends to expand on this stream of literature by providing a more comprehensive interpretation of risk grounded in a relativist epistemology.…”

Section: Risk and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While some participants perceived street harassment as a compliment, little is known about the perception of Asian women with regard to sexual risk taking during solo holidays. Future research in this area will contribute to existing literature on women's sexual risk taking in tourism (Berdychevsky & Gibson, 2015a, 2015bBerdychevsky, Poria, & Uriely, 2013) from an Asian perspective and deepen current understanding of gendered tourist behaviour in a liminoid space (Turner, 1969). Conversely, while tourism studies about western women have received increasing scholarly attention, influential works on western solo female travellers were conducted almost 10 years ago (Jordan & Aitchison, 2008;Jordan & Gibson, 2005;Wilson & Little, 2005.…”

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Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

2018

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In response to the emergence of the solo female travel market in Asia, this study explores how Asian women perceive and negotiate the risks of travelling alone and the meanings of these processes. The lived experiences of 35 solo female travellers from 10 East and Southeast Asian countries were analysed using constructivist grounded theory.The findings reveal that Asian solo female travellers were concerned about gendered (e.g. sexual assault and street harassment) and racialised (e.g. discrimination and social disapproval) risks, which imply the unequal power relations underpinning the gendered and racialised tourism space. The findings also reveal evidence where gender intersects with race in amplifying and constructing Asian women's perception of risk. The study demonstrates how Asian solo female travellers gained empowerment and experienced self-transformations through negotiating the risks and further reveals how these individual transformations may extend to social transformations at a micro level in an Asian context.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

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Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

2018

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“…There is growing interest among scholars in risk-taking within tourism and leisure consumption (Berdychevsky & Gibson, 2015a, 2015b, 2015cLepp & Gibson, 2008;. This body of work sought to explore tourists' conceptions of risk, their motivations for risk-taking as well as their management of risk(s).…”

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Risk-tourism, risk-taking and subjective well-being: A review and synthesis

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This paper seeks to conceptualize the potential relationship between subjective well-being and risk-taking within 'risk-tourism' i.e. specific activities that involve the potential for physical injury and death and require participants to develop competencies with which to overcome the risks associated with those activities. Literature is reviewed in three fields of inquiry: subjective wellbeing, with specific reference to the interactions between wellbeing and tourism behavior, risktaking in tourism and risk-tourism. The areas of interaction between risk-tourism and subjective well-being, emerging critical questions and potential areas of future inquiry are subsequently examined.

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“…As many as 1 in 10 men were recorded as having an overseas partner in a British study [6], and different categories of male sex tourist have also been proposed in the literature [7], ranging from the 'macho lad' asserting his dominance over foreign women to the 'white knight' saving women from commercial sex work. A study from the United States showed that female travellers had a greater preference for travel to European or tropical countries, and that sex was more likely to occur on group tours, sightseeing or backpacking holidays lasting fewer than 14 days [8]. Female sex tourism has also been described in Caribbean destinations such as Jamaica, with Euro-American women purchasing the services of so-called "Rent-A-Dreads", local men who seek out relationships with tourist women for economic gain [9].…”

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Sun, sea and sex: a review of the sex tourism literature

Holmes

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et al. 2020

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines

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Background Sex tourism is defined as travel planned specifically for the purpose of sex, generally to a country where prostitution is legal. While much of the literature on sex tourism relates to the commercial sex worker industry, sex tourism also finds expression in non-transactional sexual encounters. This narrative review explores current concepts related to travel and sex, with a focus on trans-national sex tourism. Methods The PubMed database was accessed to source relevant literature, using combinations of pertinent search terms. Only articles published in the English language were selected. Reference lists of published articles were also examined for relevant articles. Results With regard to preferred destinations, South/Central America and the Caribbean were more likely to receive tourists looking for casual sex. Longer duration of travel, travelling alone or with friends, alcohol or drug use, being younger and being single were factors associated with higher levels of casual sex overseas. The majority of literature retrieved on sex workers focused on risk behaviours, sexually transmitted infections (STI), mobility of sex workers and how these factors affected their lives. Sex tourists require better access to effective methods of preventing HIV, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis, and better education on HIV prevention. Drugs and alcohol play a major role as risk factors for and cofactors in casual sexual behaviour while abroad. Conclusions Travellers need to be informed of the increased risks of STI before travel. They should be aware of the local prevalence of STIs and the risks associated with their sexual practices when they travel, including engaging with commercial sex workers, having unprotected sexual intercourse and becoming victims of sexual violence.

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Sex and risk in young women's tourist experiences: Context, likelihood, and consequences

Cited by 20 publications

References 54 publications

Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks

Risk-tourism, risk-taking and subjective well-being: A review and synthesis

Sun, sea and sex: a review of the sex tourism literature

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