Abstract

MORENO ALARCON, Daniela. The road to equality in tourism Case study in Cartagena de India, Colombia. memorias [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.26-51. ISSN 1794-8886.

The overall objective of this article is to reflect about the challenges of the tourism sector to promote gender equality and empowerment of women. Emphasises the feminization of poverty as a key dimension of analysis to sustainability in tourism. Through the mains results of the project about child sex exploitation in tourism of the Foundation Terres des Hommes-Lausanne in Cartagena de Indias in Colombia, are noted some of the issues to keep in mind to the development of tourism from a gender perspective.

Keywords : gender; feminization of poverty; empowerment; child sex tourism and tourism policies.

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