Romance Tourism

2017 ◽  
pp. 315-317
Author(s):  
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel
Keyword(s):  
Romance Tourism

Privileges and Problems of Female Sex Tourism

2015 ◽  
pp. 382-405
Author(s):  
Brent Smith
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
The People ◽  
Domestic Constraints ◽  
Romance Tourism

This chapter provides an exploration of female sex tourism, or romance tourism, a global consumer phenomenon that has evolved over several decades. Amidst forward strides in their social and economic empowerment, many women in advanced countries still experience marginalizing constraints to their freedom, mobility, and expression in many aspects of life. Yet, scholarly research and anecdotal evidence suggest that some women have utilized sex tourism as a means to escape such domestic constraints and find entrée to myriad social and cultural privileges at certain destinations abroad. Moving beyond tenured, clichéd stereotypes that typically associate sex tourism with male consumers, this chapter brings to light the rationale, justifications, criticisms, and cultural issues pervading this institution. Despite its liberating potential for women, female sex tourism does, at least somewhat, rely upon and reinforce historically entrenched national and cultural demarcations that tend to marginalize the people (partners, families, communities) of targeted destinations in the developing world.

scholarly journals On the Hunt for Noble Savages: Romance Tourism and Ageing Femininities

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ieva Stončikaitė
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Casual Sex ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Information Campaigns ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Romance Tourism

Casual sexual encounters are closely wedded to leisure travel, and have received a lot of attention in both theoretical and empirical work. However, the relationship between romance tourism and female ageing remains largely under-researched. This article offers critical insights into the interplay of the successful ageing and sexual relationships abroad of older women travellers. It shows that romance tourism has both positive and negative implications for women’s physical and psychological health and wellbeing. Although exotic escapes help reconnect women with their youthful selves, enhancing a sense of self-confidence and challenging the narrative of decline, casual sex may also generate conflicting feelings once the travel romance is over. This article also encourages the rethinking of the complexities of ageing femininities, sexual activity and health risk in ‘silver’ romance tourism today. Additionally, it argues that the sexual health guidelines and information campaigns should adopt a more multifaceted approach to sexual expressions, and encourage alternative views towards sex and sexuality in later life, in order to not create a rather oppressive ideology among older women.

Sex in Tourism

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Romance Tourism

This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in tourism, including the light, dark and shades of grey between. It studies the affects and effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism; romance tourism, sex tourism and exploitation in tourism, including the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism and sexual harassment.

Romance tourism

2016 ◽  
pp. 802-803
Author(s):  
Liza Berdychevsky
Keyword(s):  
Romance Tourism

scholarly journals Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Meaning of Male Beach Worker-Female Tourist Relationships on the Kenyan Coast

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Njeri Chege
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Kenyan Coast ◽  
Romance Tourism ◽  
Coast Region

<p>Knowledge and research on sexual-economic relationships between local men and Western female tourists in different touristic locations around the world has grown, as has public interest and awareness of the phenomenon. However, the direct perspectives of the men whose lives constitute the focus of such studies remain scarce. This has resulted in the phenomenon being understood mainly and inadequately through the concepts of 'romance tourism' and 'female sex tourism'. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Kenya's South Coast region, this article foregrounds the voices of male beach workers and the meanings they assign to these relationships, against a backdrop of the historical, social, economic and political dynamics within which these relationships are pursued. The men attest to socio-economic hardships and marginalization, against which they seek to establish long-term intimate relationships with foreign female tourists, as well as non-sexual economically motivated friendships with foreign tourists, termed family friends. The narratives and analyses show that the pursuit of these relationships as livelihood strategies also flows from the men's struggles to fulfil traditional and contemporary ethno-societal gender expectations, through which men are generally construed as the expected breadwinners and providers. </p>

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