The impact of tourism and finance on women empowerment

Nassani, Abdelmohsen A.; Aldakhil, Abdullah Mohammed; Abro, Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi; Islam, Talat; Zaman, Khalid

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2018.12.001

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“…The earlier literature mainly focused on three different perspectives of female empowerment. Firstly, a sizeable body of literature is available on women's role in economic development [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. These studies confirmed that women significantly played their economic role through accessing ICTs, microfinancing, tourism development, reproductive healthcare decisions, and business entrepreneurship activities.…”

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

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Jabeen

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The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

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“…The key factors for starting a business for women in rural areas are the initial capital and the family support. Even more, Nassani et al (2019) focused their study on international tourism, WE and financial intermediaries in a panel of 24 selected European countries. The authors used the panel fixed effect regression model to analyze the role of financial intermediaries on WE in tourism.…”

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Tourism development, entrepreneurship and women's empowerment – Focus on Serbian countryside

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Petrović

Maiti

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PurposeThe starting premise of this study is that women's empowerment is the goal for self-realization and that the support that comes from local tourism stakeholders represents an adequate base. In many rural areas, women have established self-help groups (SHGs), which facilitate the interaction with a wide range of stakeholders. The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of SHGs on female entrepreneurship and self-employment in tourism.Design/methodology/approachTo examine the research question, this study adopted a quantitative research that included a sample of 513 women in a less-advanced rural area in Serbia. For the data analysis, the generalized linear regression model (GLM) was used.FindingsAccording to the results, self-employment is the leading goal of women's empowerment.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation in the research and the authors’ suggestion for future research is to increase the sample size of female respondents, so examination of their attitudes and role in the travel business in their local settings might reach higher significance. The second issue that the authors would like to point out is a highly local character of our study, so the future research should involve other rural areas in the country and from abroad (e.g. similar undeveloped countryside with noticeable, active women's role in local entrepreneurship).Practical implicationsThe most important practical implications of this paper are twofold: (1) the results of the research have shown that the tourist potential of rural areas can be enhanced through local tourism stakeholders' support; (2) women without professional interest or jobs in rural areas, especially in the areas where the population is traditionally dominated by men (husband/brother/father), have a chance to earn and to be economically more independent. This research can affect future studies to investigate other aspects of empowerment depending on the difference of regions, from one side, and also alternative opportunities for tourism and local development in less-advanced rural areas, from another side.Originality/valueThe study analyzes the tourism potential of the rural areas (which are less advanced and mostly very poor in developing countries, such as Serbia). In this case, there are opportunities to increase employment, social inclusion of women, development of new tourism strategies, implementation of destination marketing, etc. Moreover, it contributes to future research in the field of stakeholders in tourism strategies.

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“…The tourism literature has highlighted the contribution of the tourism sector, such as job creation and socio-economic development ( Alam & Paramati, 2016 ). However, there are concerns about the consequences of tourism, mostly in connection with international tourism (e.g., see Nassani et al (2018) , Zhang and Gao (2016) ). There appear to be no studies on the consequences of domestic tourism on economic vulnerability.…”

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“…Notably, there are studies concerning the contributions and consequences of international tourism on host countries (e.g., see Nassani et al (2018) , Zhang and Gao (2016) ), while less, or likely not much attention is paid to the influences of domestic tourism. Domestic tourism is defined as tourism activity by that country's residents for both business and leisure trips ( WTTC, 2019 ); thus, there are quite significant differences between international tourism (tourism activities by international visitors) and domestic tourism.…”

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Domestic tourism spending and economic vulnerability

Nguyen

Thanh

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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This study examines the influence of domestic tourism on economic vulnerability index (EVI). Domestic tourism spending has a significant effect in reducing EVI. These results are consistent with two sub-indices of EVI (shock index and exposure index). Interestingly, it is found that: (i) this impact is consistent in low- and lower-middle-income countries, while domestic tourism has a non-significantly effect in upper-middle and high-income countries of increasing EVI; (ii) these results are consistent in the long-run; and (iii) the impact of domestic tourism is consistent in both the 2002–2007 and 2008–2012 periods, but is statistically non-significant in the 2013–2017 period. Notably, we find that domestic tourism spending has a U-shape effect on EVI; while international tourism has an increasing effect.

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The impact of tourism and finance on women empowerment

Cited by 65 publications

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Tourism development, entrepreneurship and women's empowerment – Focus on Serbian countryside

Domestic tourism spending and economic vulnerability

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