scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Engagement of Women in Selected Tourism Areas in the Philippines

2020 ◽  
pp. 349-359
Author(s):  
Bernadette G. Gumba
Keyword(s):  
Community Support ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
Preferential Option ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Set Up

<p>This study analyzed the entrepreneurial engagements of women in 2 selected tourism areas in the Philippines. Specifically, it examined the respondents’ profile and their business; assessed the women’s enterprises as to employment generation, promotion of sociocultural authenticity of host community, support to agricultural and coastal endowments of the area, and economic empowerment of women. The women’s engagement in tourism-related enterprises may be a manifestation of a sense of ownership, themselves being born and growing up in the locality. They expressed a sense of pride especially in receiving outsiders whom they regarded as visitors of their home community. They articulated that their livelihood helped promote their way of life, place, resources and products. Most women’s enterprises in Tigaon were highly dependent on tourism. Although the same may be said of Caramoan, the women there were more enterprising and possessed some level of business resilience as they had set up other enterprises to get by while tourists were not around. More entrepreneurs from Caramoan than Tigaon came across tourists from other regions and abroad. The women’s engagements were isolated from the mainstream of the tourism industry. Their businesses were struggling amidst strong and stable competition from big capitalists who owned the resorts, hotels and food businesses. Data revealed that the livelihood activities of women were still very small and minimal. Consequently, the enterprises had insignificant and negligible generation of employment. The gender-based issues faced by the respondents were those that relate to reproductive work such as tight household budget, home concerns, sickness in the family and too much work. Tourism development in both communities should give preferential option for small entrepreneurs. The women may organize themselves to enhance social capital.</p>

THE ROLE OF STAKEHOLDERS IN ETHNO-CULTURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
Aliyu H. Ibrahim ◽  
J. A. Falola
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Host Community

The paper evaluates the anticipated benefits and the perceived host community support for ethno-cultural tourism resource development in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted for this study. Six local governments’ areas were chosen purposively because they accommodate different ethnic and cultural diversity within the state, representing about 33% of the total number of 23 LGAs in the state and have an estimated population of 1,639,621. The selected LGAs are also heterogeneous in terms of ethnicity, culture and religion. Semi-structured interview were administered to 316 respondents selected in the study area. Survey data were obtained through focus group discussion (FGD) in each ethnic community. FGD”s were held with youths, elders and aged. The sampled communities are Ham, Fulani, Hausa, Kagoro, Adara and Gbagyi, field observations were also carried out for holistic resource inventory in the ethnic communities. Documentary data were obtained from desk review method; information on tourism resources available in each ethnic community. The study reveals that the anticipated benefits of ethno-cultural tourism expected by the host communities are basically in terms of infrastructural development (road, water, electricity and communication services) and essential amenities (accommodation, restaurant, Tourist Travel Services, banking and bureau de change). The study recommends that lack of financial capital is a great hindrance for local communities to invest in the tourism industry. A mechanism for financial assistance, including provision of soft loans, needs to be in place in order to encourage host communities to invest in the industry. In turn, this would 

scholarly journals IMPACT OF AIRBNB ON PHILIPPINE ACCOMMODATION SECTOR: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (21) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Mary Vida L. Tumbali
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Data Sampling ◽  
Accommodation Sector ◽  
To Come ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Occupancy Rates ◽  
The Impact

The study aimed at scrutinizing the impact of Airbnb on the Philippine hotel accommodation sector with regards to occupancy rates and the number of tourist arrivals. The more extensive point was to make a functional contribution to the current discussions and issues around the sharing accommodation, in particular Airbnb platform, from an ethnically diverse country standpoint. This study used a quantitative explanatory approach, and a secondary data sampling technique was adopted. Statistics from the Philippines were obtained from the DOT library while Airbnb data was purchased from AirDNA last September-November 2019. Secondary data collected were analyzed through SPSS. The study measured the relationship between Airbnb occupancy rates and tourist arrival. Moreover, to test whether Airbnb is directly competing with the lower category of hotel in terms of occupancy rates, the correlational examination was taken into account. Pearson R coefficient was utilized followed by a regression analysis to come up with a model. The findings inferred that it is Airbnb that has most influenced the activity of the tourism industry sector most especially under the accommodation sector and apparently set up to be a threat to the budget traditional providers. The result of the examination required for a business reaction for the traditional providers on the best way to team up with Airbnb to give better accommodation preferences for the increasing number of travelers in the country.

scholarly journals Helio Gelli Pereira. 23 September 1918 — 16 August 1994

1999 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 379-396
Author(s):  
John Skehel ◽  
D.A.J. Tyrrell
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Small Town ◽  
The State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
Azores Islands ◽  
The Family ◽  
Summer Palace ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Set Up

Dr Helio Pereira, who was known internationally for his work on the viruses of vertebrates, died on 16 August 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was born on 23 September 1918 in the small town of Petropolis in the state of Rio de Janeiro, where his father Raul Pereira Geronymo had been born. His grandparents were Portuguese and came from the Azores islands to set up a modest grocery business in Petropolis. His mother's family originated from Italy. His maternal grandfather had earned his living from eel fishing but in 1893 came to Brazil and started a cabinet-making business, which grew into a prosperous furniture factory and a chain of furniture shops run by members of the family. Helio lived for the first five years of his life in Petropolis, the site of the Imperial summer palace, which was then a small summer mountain resort near Rio de Janeiro with a permanent population largely of German, Italian and Portuguese descent. Of that period he remembered mainly the life in his mother's family. This centred on the patriarchal figure of his grandfather and comprised a close-knit family of twelve sons and daughters and their wives, husbands and children. The family followed Italian customs to a large extent but these were influenced by the more easy-going Brazilian way of life, and so the general atmosphere was light-hearted and cheerful.

Youth Culture Features in the Light of Preferred Role Models and Life Styles

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Amel Alić ◽  
Haris Cerić ◽  
Sedin Habibović
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
General Data ◽  
The University

Abstract The aim of this research was to determine to what extent different variables describe the style and way of life present within the student population in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this sense, in addition to general data on examinees, gender differences were identified, the assessment of parental dimensions of control and emotion, overall family circumstances, level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity, role models, preferences of lifestyles, everyday habits and resistance and (or) tendencies to depressive, anxiety states and stress. The survey included a sample of 457 examinees, students of undergraduate studies at the University of Zenica and the University of Sarajevo, with a total of 9 faculties and 10 departments covering technical, natural, social sciences and humanities. The obtained data give a broad picture of the everyday life of youth and confirm some previously theoretically and empirically justified theses about the connection of the family background of students, everyday habits, with the level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity and preferences of the role models and lifestyles of the examinees.

New and little-known species of the genus Zhengitettix (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Scelimeninae) from Southeast Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-223
Author(s):  
S.Yu. Storozhenko
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Check List ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
The Family

Seven new species of the genus Zhengitettix Liang, 1994 are described: Z. hosticus sp. nov., Z. mucronatus sp. nov. and Z. spinulentus sp. nov. from Vietnam; Z. albitarsus sp. nov. and Z. extraneus sp. nov. from Thailand; Z. palawanensis sp. nov. and Z. taytayensis sp. nov. from the Philippines. Two species, Z. curvispinus Liang, Jiang et Liu, 2007 and Z. obliquespicula Zheng et Jiang, 2005 are firstly recorded from Vietnam. An annotated check-list and key to species of the genus Zhengitettix are given. Position of Zhengitettix within the family Tetrigidae is briefly discussed.

Quality of Life (QOL) of Balinese Women Working in Spa Tourism Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Putu Sucita Yanthy ◽  
Luh Gede Leli Kusuma Dewi ◽  
W. Citra Juwitasari
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Material Factor

Bali is one of spa tourist destinations having various categories of spas and spa treatments, and the most important is the spa therapists. Spa development becomes an interesting phenomenon to be studied when it is associated with an involvement of Balinese women as spa therapists in foreign countries. The world’s demand for Balinese spa therapists has become the motivation of women to work in this area. The work and life of Balinese spa therapists while they are working in foreign countries serve as parameters to know their quality of life, and these parameters are also the main focus of this study. Through in-depth interviews and questionnaires distributed to 20 therapists it was found out that 85 percent of them have revealed an improvement in their quality of life that is influenced by two factors: the material and intimacy factors. The material factor in question refers to the economic improvement of the family as they could earn enough income to cover their family needs. The intimacy factor in question refers to closeness and a sense of solidarity fostered while they are working abroad and the relationship within the family. This study concludes that the most important part of the development of spa in Bali is its female Balinese spa therapists due to the image that Balinese women working as spa therapists are loyal, hard-working and honest making them in demand among tourists who are seeking spa treatments. Being a spa therapist can improve their quality of life, which means that subjectively both material and intimacy factors are the aspects that affect the quality of life of the Balinese spa therapists.

The Right to Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Brysk
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Honor Killings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Right

Chapter 6 concerns denial of women’s right to life . The new frame of “femicide” has dramatically increased attention to gender-based killing in the public and private sphere, and encompasses a spectrum of threats and assaults that culminate in murder. The chapter follows the threats to women’s security through the life cycle, beginning with cases of “gendercide” (sex-selective abortion and infanticide) in India, then moving to honor killings in Turkey and Pakistan. We examine public femicide in Mexico and Central America—with comparison to the disappearance of indigenous women in Canada, as “second-class citizens” in a developed democracy. The chapter continues mapping the panorama of private sphere domestic violence in the semi-liberal gender regimes of China, Russia, Brazil, and the Philippines, along with a range of responses in law, public policy, advocacy, and protest.

Family tourism: Interpersonal interaction, existential authenticity and quality of tourist experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 135676672110224
Author(s):  
Han Chen ◽  
Yan Jiao ◽  
Xiaoyi Li ◽  
Kun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
The Impact

The functional value experience of family tourism has often been paid attention both by tourists themselves and the tourism industry, but the individual value experience of parents in family tourism has been neglected. Family tourism shifts the scenario of interpersonal interaction between families from home, the conventional environment, to a non-conventional one. This change in the interactive situation will inevitably bring about changes in interpersonal interaction behavior and individual perception, especially to tourists who take on the role of parents in a nuclear family. This study enriches the examination of the family tourism experience by exploring the interpersonal interaction, existential authenticity travel experiences, and quality of tourist experience perceived by parents in family tourism. The main findings are: 1) In the non-conventional environment of tourism, effective interaction between tourists and their families helps to improve tourists’ emotional experience and satisfaction; 2) Three aspects of existential authenticity are the internal causes of the impact of interpersonal interaction on emotional experience and satisfaction; 3) Differences in parental roles make important discrepancies between men and women’s perception of family tourism experiences. This study provides insights to understanding the family tourism market and brings valuable findings to the area of family tourism marketing and management.

Credit—Without Banking—In Early Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico

1962 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Szászdi
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
College Professors ◽  
Savings Banks ◽  
Mineral Wealth ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Financial Expert ◽  
Set Up ◽  
State Of Affairs

The title of this article seems to give the impression that its author is a financial expert. Unhappily, this is not the case. But—for quite unknown reasons—college professors are apt to acquire some empirical knowledge of credit facilities. Besides, I do not intend to give practical advice to anybody. I shall only try to show, how people in Puerto Rico, a century and a half ago, managed to survive—and at times prosper—in the midst of what some people used to call, not very affectionately, the “money complex.”What makes the question interesting is the lack of banks or other credit institutions. Apparently, the first small savings banks did not appear until the 1870's. The paucity, if not the absolute absence, of liquid capital characterizes Puerto Rico until the period under study. Such a state of affairs had remote causes. Puerto Rico, as Spain's second colony in the New World, had had a prosperous start in the sixteenth century. Some gold was found, and the firstingeniowas set up. But in the 1520's an exodus was set off by the attraction of the fabulous mineral wealth of the continent that was being conquered, an exodus that the threat of the death penalty was not able to stop effectively. The lack of sufficient settlers was then the initial cause of Puerto Rico's economic stagnation. Naturally, the following two hundred years should have been more than sufficient to allow recovery, for—popular beliefs to the contrary—mineral wealth was not the only source of economic prosperity in the Spanish monarchy. As a sample, the Philippines exported Chinese goods, Central America cocoa and dyestuff, Venezuela cocoa and tobacco, Guayaquil cocoa and timber, Quito textiles, Peru wine and flour, Chile flour and timber, Tucumán mules, Buenos Aires hides, and Cuba sugar and tobacco.

The Perceived Impacts of Sport Tourism: An Urban Host Community Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Hritz ◽  
Craig Ross
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Sport Tourism ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Perceived Impacts ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Social Environmental

Sport tourism is one of the fastest growing market segments in the tourism industry and is receiving increased attention for its social, environmental, and economic impacts upon destinations. Prior research in tourism impacts has tended to focus exclusively on tourism as a whole and does not differentiate among the different types of tourism that may be present in a destination. The purpose of this study was to examine how residents of Indianapolis, Indiana perceived the impacts sport tourism has upon their city. A total of 347 surveys were returned in a mailed questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a four factor structure of social benefits, environmental benefits, economic benefits, and general negative impacts. Social and economic benefits were strong predictors for support for further sport tourism development revealing a strong identification with the advantages of sport tourism in their city such as an increased cultural identity and social interaction opportunities.

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