Our Purpose

To provide a GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE e-NETWORK:

1.  Targeted at interested researchers and practitioners in the field of sustainable tourism as a tool to assist in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

2.  Focused on sharing and improving the knowledge base on the capacity of sustainable tourism policies and practices to make a real contribution to the promotion of gender equity and the empowerment of women in all regions of the world, particularly in the less developed countries.

3.  To bring gender aspects of tourism to the attention of policy makers, especially the issues of women’s employment in the tourism industry and women’s local participation in tourism planning and management.

Key issues: