The stigmatized tourist

Moufakkir, Omar

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2015.04.004

Cited by 36 publications

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“…Veiled and non-veiled tourists in industrialised countries suffer a reversed (not reverse) culture shock at destination [ 90 ]. Immigrant and religious stigmatisation [ 91 ] spoils their tourist identity [ 92 ], leaving the women with feelings of injustice, shame, insecurity and the desire to go home.…”

Section: Health and Hygienementioning

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Healthy, safe and responsible: the modern female traveller

Bauer

2021

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines

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One-half of all travellers are women; yet, there is a distinct lack of detailed travel health knowledge on topics of unique relevance to women. While there is medical advice relating to stages in the female lifecycle, it neglects women-specific practical aspects despite their ability to harm travellers’ health and cause inconvenience. This paper discusses comprehensively three major aspects of travel as they relate to women. First, it suggests the management of personal hygiene, bodily functions, menstruation and sexual behaviour, and alerts to the limited knowledge on travel mental health issues.Second, apart from travelling in a female body with its specific demands, being a woman requires special attention to safety and security. Within various travel contexts, women have many opportunities for minimising potential risks.Finally, guided by travel medicine’s acknowledgment of its role in the concept of responsible travel, this article goes beyond the usual general statements and broad advice and offers detailed and practical suggestions on how the female traveller can contribute to the overall goal of minimising any potential harm to fellow humans and the natural environment. Recognising the scarcity of women-specific travel information, pathways to better education, and a range of suggestions for urgent research facilitate the provision of high-quality travel health care tailored specifically to women’s needs.

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Section: Health and Hygienementioning

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Healthy, safe and responsible: the modern female traveller

Bauer

2021

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines

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“…Bruner, 1991;Bhattacharyya, 1997;Bandyopadhyay and Morais, 2005;Echtner and Prasad;2003;Weischelbaumer, 2012;Losanski, 2013) and the specific context of 'Western' tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (e.g. Gregory, 1999;Burns, 2004;Bryce, 2007;Bryce, MacLaren and O'Gorman, 2013;Scott and Jafari, 2010;Mouffakir, 2015). This study is most closely linked to the third of these but draws closer to 'home', as it were, by examining the conditions necessary for Orientalism's later constitution as a discourse by and for a particular notion of 'Europe'.…”

Section: The Reception Of Orientalism In Tourism Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Orientalism, Balkanism and Europe's Ottoman heritage

Bryce

Čaušević

2019

Annals of Tourism Research

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Orientalism' has been used as a lens to understand consumption of heritage sites in non-Western contexts. Through the supplementary lens of 'Balkanism', we examine a European region with a significant heritage reflecting the c.500 year rule of the Ottoman Empire. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania are selected for study given their concentration of Ottoman heritage sites. We note first that these countries' heritage tourism sectors anticipate and modify interpretation to accommodate 'Western' tourists' affectation of 'surprise' and 'delight' at a 'remarkable' crossroads between 'West/East' or 'Christendom/Islam'. To understand why Ottoman heritage is often understood to be in but not of Europe, our analysis draws on scholarship interrogating 'Europe's' longstanding discursive erasure of its Ottoman-Islamic-Oriental 'self'.

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“…Within the context of tourism, Ward and Berno (2011) suggest that stereotypes greatly impact both service providers' attitudes towards guests and guest satisfaction. Furthermore, in a study on stigmatism (which is an ensemble of stereotypes) in the Netherlands, Moufakkir (2015) identified that the quality of Arab-Muslim tourism experiences ' . .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within the context of tourism, Ward and Berno (2011) suggest that stereotypes greatly impact both service providers’ attitudes towards guests and guest satisfaction. Furthermore, in a study on stigmatism (which is an ensemble of stereotypes) in the Netherlands, Moufakkir (2015) identified that the quality of Arab-Muslim tourism experiences ‘…is both undermined and reduced, if not by direct stigma, it is through stigma by association’ (p. 27). Similarly, in their study of Jewish tourists who had visited Holocaust sites in Poland, Podoshen et al (2015) concluded that exchanges that are predicated on stereotypes and shared with fellow tourists have potential to create negativity among the members of tour groups and activate more widespread stereotyping.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A number of scholars have highlighted that analysis of stereotyping in tourism settings is underexplored (Huang and Lee, 2010; Wu and Pearce, 2012). For example, although Moufakkir’s (2015) and Podoshen et al’s (2015) recent research explores stereotyping from the non-Westerner’s perspective, much of the extant literature on stereotyping appears to put forward a Western tourists’ view of stereotyping. In addition, there appears to be a void with regard to presenting the view that service providers have of stereotyping.…”

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Stereotyping – Predispositions, activations and applications in cross-cultural service interactions

Cheok

Aleti

Hede

2015

Journal of Vacation Marketing

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The aim of the article was to explore for stereotyping patterns in crosscultural service interactions. This research was set within the context of luxury hotel in Malaysia, where most of the service providers are non-Western. In-depth interviews and written diaries were used to develop deep narratives for the patterns of stereotyping adopted by the service providers. Predispositions, activations and applications of stereotypes were examined considering implicit theory and power distance. Associations between the service providers' culture and position and their tendency to activate and apply stereotypes were found. The findings highlight the increasing complexity in cross-cultural service interactions within the South East Asian region. This study provides management with insights into service interactions in the contemporary context of Asia, where socio/economic and cultural boundaries are blurring. Practical and theoretical recommendations are made for both management and further academic research on this issue, which has potential to influence guest satisfaction and ultimately business viability.

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The stigmatized tourist

Cited by 36 publications

References 17 publications

Healthy, safe and responsible: the modern female traveller

Healthy, safe and responsible: the modern female traveller

Orientalism, Balkanism and Europe's Ottoman heritage

Stereotyping – Predispositions, activations and applications in cross-cultural service interactions

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